Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

by Hirsch,Eric; Hirsch,Eric

• ISBN13: 9780415117128
• ISBN10: 0415117127
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1994-10-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Consuming Technologiesopens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.

Table of Contents

Foreword the Mirror of Technology	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptual and Thematic Issues	p. 13
Information and Communication Technologies and the Moral Economy of the Household	p. 15
The Circuit of Technology Gender, Identity and Power	p. 32
References	p. 46
The Desire for the New Its Nature and Social Location as Presented in Theories of Fashion and Modern Consumerism	p. 48
	p. 65
The Shape of Things to Consume	p. 67
Explaining Ict Consumption	p. 82
Personal Computers, Gender and an Institutional Model of the Household	p. 97
The Meaning of Domestic Technologiesn	p. 113
References	p. 129
Living-Room Wars	p. 131
The Young and the Restless in Trinidad	p. 146
Contextualizing Home Computing	p. 146
	p. 161
References	p. 182
The Amish and the Telephone	p. 183
Regimes of Closure	p. 195
The Long Term and the Short Term of Domestic Consumption	p. 195
References	p. 205
Index	p. 234
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