User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /

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"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."...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Corn, Joseph J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Sujets:
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > United States.
Consumer Behavior
Consommateurs > Satisfaction.
Systèmes homme-machine > Aspect social.
Innovations > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Consumer satisfaction
Human-computer interaction
Human-machine systems > Social aspects
Technological innovations
Technischer Fortschritt
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Konsumgut
Bedienungsanleitung
United States
USA
Multi-User
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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