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User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Corn, Joseph J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumer satisfaction.
- Human-computer interaction.
- Human-machine systems--Social aspects.
- Human-machine systems.
- Technological innovations--United States.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 5, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0193-2
- OCLC:
- 794700432
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