Book Cover; Half-Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Information and communication technologies and the moral economy of the household; Chapter 2 The circuit of technology Gender, identity and power; Chapter 3 The desire for the new Its nature and social location as presented in theories of fashion; Part II Information and communication technologies in the home; Chapter 4 The shape of things to consume; Chapter 5 Explaining ICT consumption; Chapter 6 Personal computers, gender and an institutional model of the hpusehold.
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Opens up 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.