Consuming Technologies

Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

By: Eric Hirsch (Editor), Roger Silverstone (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 October 1992 | Edition Number 1

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"Consuming Technologies" opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural, and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology.
Debate over the commodification and privatization of everyday life has been preoccupied with the impact of technological change on established social structures and cultural values. Yet much of the discussion has lacked any substantive empirical work on the understanding of modern industrial society: on the nature of consumption, and the contradictory significance of the domestic sphere. The contributors address these questions in a series of essays, suggesting that in essence, information and communications technologies require us to see them as social and symbolic as well as material objects, crucially embeddded in the structures and dynamics of our consumer culture.

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Media Studies Engineering & Technology Technology in General Cultural Studies Sociology & Anthropology Science Science in General Impact of Science & Technology on Society Social Issues & Processes Consumerism

Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Education Teaching of a Specific Subject Humanities

Contributors
Ien Ang
Colin Campbell
Cynthia Cockburn
Jonathan Gershuny
Sonia Livingstone
Ian Miles
Daniel Miller
David Morley
Grahame Murdock
Tim Putnam
Marilyn Strathern
Diane Zimmerman Umble
Jane Wheelock
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