User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to...
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to...
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Call Numbers
G 2014/268
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Language
English
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Physical content
272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Our marvelous and maddening machines -- The advent of technology consumption -- Buying an automobile -- Running a car -- Tools, tinkering, and trouble -- Reading the owner's manual -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
Publication information
Publisher
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2011.
Place of Publication
Maryland
Date Published
c2011.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Joseph J. Corn maps two centuries of consumer frustration and struggle with personal technologies. ... Having extensively researched owner's manuals, computer user-group newsletters, and how-to literature, Corn brings a fresh, consumer-oriented approach to the history of technology."--Dust jacket.
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User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index.
State Reference Library copy: transferred from REF N303.48309/11.
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Date Copyright
c2011.
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Call Numbers
G 2014/268
Record Identifier
74VvzZpxJwdM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvzZpxJwdM
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ISBN
1421401924 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421401928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
303.4830973
MMS ID
991009282239702626
