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Corn, Joseph J.

User unfriendlyconsumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	User unfriendlyJoseph J. Corn.
Reminder of title:	consumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /
Author:	Corn, Joseph J.
Published:	Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2011.
Description:	1 online resource (272 p.) :ill.
Subject:	Consumer satisfaction.
Online resource:	Full text available:
ISBN:	9781421401935 (electronic bk.)

User unfriendlyconsumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /
Corn, Joseph J.

User unfriendlyconsumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /[electronic resource] :Joseph J. Corn. - Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press,2011. - 1 online resource (272 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-264) and index.

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 -- Computersand the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments

"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.

ISBN: 9781421401935 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

220965
Consumer satisfaction.

LC Class. No.: T173.8 / .C685 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 303.48/30973

User unfriendlyconsumer struggles with personal technologies, fromclocks and sewing machines to cars and computers /
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