Technologies of Consumer Labor: A History of Self-Service - Brossura

Palm, Michael

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0815364741 ISBN 13: 9780815364740

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2017

Riassunto

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone’s development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers’ attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Michael Palm is Assistant Professor of Media and Technology Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0815364741
• ISBN 13: 9780815364740
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 188
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania