User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / / Joseph J. Corn
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Corn Joseph J
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| Titolo: |
User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / / Joseph J. Corn
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.48/30973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumer satisfaction |
| Human-computer interaction | |
| Human-machine systems - Social aspects | |
| Technological innovations - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | User unfriendly |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0193-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463633703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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