User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers

User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.

"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."...

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Main Author: Corn, Joseph J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies.
Subjects:
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Consumer satisfaction
Human-computer interaction
Human-machine systems > Social aspects
Technological innovations
Technischer Fortschritt
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
Konsumgut
Bedienungsanleitung
United States
USA
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Table of 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.

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