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

By:

Corn, Joseph J

Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.Description: 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781421401928 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421401924 (hardcover : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

303.48/30973 22

LOC classification:

T173.8 .C685 2011

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

Scope and content: "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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index.

"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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