Consuming Technologies - Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

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.

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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

About the author

Roger Silverstone, Eric Hirsch

Summary

Opens up 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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eric Hirsch (Editor), Eric (Brunel University Hirsch (Editor), Hirsch Eric (Editor), Roger Silverstone (Editor), Silverstone Roger (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.09.1994
• EAN: 9780415117128
• ISBN: 978-0-415-11712-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Weight: 430 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Humanities, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Consumerism, Sociology and anthropology, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects