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Author Corn, Joseph J.

Title User unfriendly : consumer struggles with personal technologies, from clocks and sewing machines to cars and computers / Joseph J. Corn.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages :) : illustrations
text file
Note OldControl:muse9781421401935.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-264) and index.
Contents 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 -- Computers and the tyranny of technology consumption -- The technology treadmill -- Acknowledgments.
Summary "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."--Jacket.
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Subject Consumer satisfaction.
Consumer satisfaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-computer interaction.
Human-machine systems -- Social aspects.
Human-machine systems -- Social aspects.
Human-machine systems.
Technological innovations -- United States.
Technological innovations.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Other Form: Print version: Corn, Joseph J. User unfriendly. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011 (DLC) 2010051494
ISBN 9781421401935 (electronic book)
1421401932 (electronic book)
9781421401928 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1421401924 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)