Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

ISBN 10: 0415069904 ISBN 13: 9780415069908

Publisher: Routledge, 1992

Synopsis

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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Synopsis:

Consuming Tecnologies 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 privatisation 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 with a series of essays suggesting that in essence, information and communication technologies require us to see them as social and symbolic as well as material objects, crucially embedded in the structures and dynamics of our consumer culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0415069904
• ISBN 13: 9780415069908
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Hirsch Eric, Silverstone Roger