Title: |
User unfriendly
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Remainder of title: |
consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers
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By: |
Joseph J. Corn
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Author: |
Corn, Joseph J.
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Publ. place: |
Baltimore
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Publisher: |
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Publ. year: |
2011 (2012)
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Extent: |
1 Online-Ressource (272 p.
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Details: |
)
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Series: |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Note: |
OldControl:muse9781421401935. - Multi-User
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Note: |
Made available online by Project Muse
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Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index
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Note: |
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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Note: |
"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
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ISBN: |
1421401932
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ISBN: |
9781421401935
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Price: |
electronic bk. electronic bk.
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full text e-book: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=600953
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Subject: |
USA ;
Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation ;
Anthropotechnik ;
Geschichte
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Subject: |
Consumer satisfaction Human-computer interaction Human-machine systems Social aspects Technological innovations United States
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RVK-Notation: |
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Fulltext: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=600953
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_ISBN: |
1-4214-0192-4
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_ISBN: |
978-1-4214-0192-8
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B3Kat-ID: |
BV043093928
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18.12.2018
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06.10.2023
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