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List of contributors | |
Foreword: The mirror of technology | |
Acknowledgements | |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Conceptual and thematic issues | |
Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household | p. 15 |
The circuit of technology: gender, identity and power | p. 32 |
The desire for the new: its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion and modern consumerism | p. 48 |
Information and communication technologies in the home | |
The shape of things to consume | p. 67 |
Explaining ICT consumption: the case of the home computer | p. 82 |
Personal computers, gender and an institutional model of the household | p. 97 |
The meaning of domestic technologies: a personal construct analysis of familial gender relations | p. 113 |
Living-room wars: new technologies, audience measurement and the tactics of television consumption | p. 131 |
Contextualizing home computing: resources and practices | p. 146 |
Appropriations | |
The Young and the Restless in Trinidad: a case of the local and the global in mass consumption | p. 163 |
The Amish and the telephone: resistance and reconstruction | p. 183 |
Regimes of closure: The representation of cultural process in domestic consumption | p. 195 |
The long term and the short term of domestic consumption: an ethnographic case study | p. 208 |
Postscript: Revolutionary technologies and technological revolutions | p. 227 |
Index | p. 234 |
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