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The intimate life of computers : digitizing domesticity in the 1980s / Reem Hilu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hilu, Reem, 1985- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers and families--History.
- Computers and families.
- Computers--Social aspects--History.
- Computers.
- Microcomputers--Social aspects--History.
- Microcomputers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Digitizing domesticity in the 1980s
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Defining Companionate Computing
- A Ménage à Trois with Your Computer: Romance Software as Mediator for Couples
- "Not an Appliance, but a Friend": Personal Robots and Participant Fatherhood
- "A Doll That Understands You": Computer Talking Dolls as Parenting Proxies
- Sex and the Singles Game: Adult Games, Cringe, and Critiques of Masculine Seduction
- Coda: Companionate Computing and Its Echoes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hilu, Reem, 1985- Intimate life of computers
- ISBN:
- 9781452972084
- 1452972087
- 9781452972077
- 1452972079
- Publisher Number:
- 40032475536
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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