User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
Corn, Joseph J.
2011
T173.8 .C685 2011 (Mapit)
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Title User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.
Author Corn, Joseph J.
ISBN 9781421401928 (alk. paper)
1421401924 (alk. paper)
Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 272 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number T173.8 .C685 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.48/30973
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > Books
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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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