User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn
- Author
- Corn, Joseph J.
- Published
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
- 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."--Jacket.
- Subject(s)
- Consumer satisfaction
- Human-computer interaction
- Human-machine systems—Social aspects
- Technological innovations—United States
- Consumer Behavior
- Consommateurs—Satisfaction
- Systèmes homme-machine—Aspect social
- Innovations—États-Unis
- SOCIAL SCIENCE—General
- Technological innovations
- Technischer Fortschritt
- Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation
- Konsumgut
- Bedienungsanleitung
- United States
- USA
- Other Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781421401935 (electronic bk.)
1421401932 (electronic bk.)
9781421401928 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1421401924 (hardcover ; alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
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