Consuming technologies
Subtitle: media and information in domestic spaces
By: edited by Roger Silverstone and Eric Hirsch.
Contributors: Silverstone, Roger.; Hirsch, Eric, 1956-
Edition: [Updated ed.]
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Technology -- Social aspects
Notes: Previous ed.: 1992.
Table of contents: title: Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household / Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch, and David Morely; title: The circuit of technology: gender, identity and power / Cynthia Cockburn; title: The desire for the new: its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion and modern consumerism / Colin Campbell; title: The shape of things to consume / Ian Miles, Alan Cawson and Leslie Haddon; title: Explaining ICT consumption: the case of the home computer / Leslie Haddon; title: Personal computers, gender and an institutional model of the household / Jane Wheelock; title: The meaning of domestic technologies: a personal construct analysis of familial gender relations / Sonia Livingstone; title: Living-room wars: new technologies, audience measurement and the tactics of television consumption / Ien Ang; title: Contextualizing home computing: resources and practices / Graham Murdock, Paul Hartmann and Peggy Gray; title: The young and the restless in Trinidad: a case of the local and the global in mass consumption / Daniel Miller; title: The Amish and the telephone: resistance and reconstruction / Diane Zimmerman Umble; title: Regimes of closure: the representation of cultural process in domestic consumption / Tim Putnam; title: The long term and the short term of domestic consumption: an ethnographic case study / Eric Hirsch; title: Postscript: revolutionary technologies and technological revolutions / Jonathan Gershuny.