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Title Domestication of media and technology / Thomas Berker [and others]
Published Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 255 pages)
Contents pt. 1. Updating domestication : theory and its history -- pt. 2. Applying domestication : empirical work -- pt. 3. Outlook
Summary This text provides an overview of a key concept in media and technology studies, that is domestication. It includes theories around domestication, that shed light upon the process, in which a technology changes its status, from outrageous novelty to an aspect of everyday life, which is taken for granted
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Computers -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects.
Home -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Computers -- Social aspects
Information technology -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Form Electronic book
Author Berker, Thomas.
LC no. 2006277529
ISBN 0335224253
9780335224258
1280950765
9781280950766