The intimate life of computers: digitizing domesticity in the 1980s

Moving beyond the story of male-dominated computer culture, this book explores the neglected history of the influence of women's culture and feminist critique on the development of personal computing. Reem Hilu proposes the notion of "companionate computing" to reimagine the spread of...

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1. Verfasser: Hilu, Reem (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Minneapolis ; London University of Minnesota Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:Moving beyond the story of male-dominated computer culture, this book explores the neglected history of the influence of women's culture and feminist critique on the development of personal computing. Reem Hilu proposes the notion of "companionate computing" to reimagine the spread of computers into American homes as the history of an interpersonal, romantic, and familial medium, and she shows how the widespread introduction of home computers in the 1980s was purposefully geared toward helping sustain heteronormative middle-class families by shaping relationships between users. A vital contribution to feminist media history, this book highlights how the emergence of personal computing dovetailed with changing gender roles and other social and cultural shifts, uncovering the surprising ways that domesticity and family life guided the earlier stages of our all-pervasive digital culture.
Beschreibung:Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register
Beschreibung:223 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:151791664X
9781517916640
1517916658
9781517916657