ABSTRACT

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.

part |2 pages

Part II Information and communication technologies in the home

chapter 5|14 pages

Explaining ICT consumption

chapter 7|18 pages

The meaning of domestic technologies

chapter 8|14 pages

Living-room wars

chapter 9|14 pages

Contextualizing home computing

part |2 pages

Part III Appropriations

chapter 10|19 pages

The Young and the Restless in Trinidad

chapter 11|11 pages

The Amish and the telephone

chapter 12|12 pages

Regimes of closure

chapter |7 pages

Postscript