|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
1. |
Record Nr. |
UNINA9910463633703321 |
|
|
Autore |
Corn Joseph J |
|
|
Titolo |
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / / Joseph J. Corn |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pubbl/distr/stampa |
|
|
Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
ISBN |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Descrizione fisica |
|
1 online resource (295 p.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Disciplina |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Soggetti |
|
Consumer satisfaction |
Human-computer interaction |
Human-machine systems - Social aspects |
Technological innovations - United States |
Electronic books. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Lingua di pubblicazione |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
|
|
|
|
|
Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
|
|
|
|
|
Note generali |
|
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di bibliografia |
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Nota di contenuto |
|
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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sommario/riassunto |
|
"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. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|