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Transparent Designs : Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness
Title
Transparent Designs : Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness / Michael L. Black.
ISBN
9781421443546
9781421443539
Publication
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2022
Copyright Notice Date
©2022.
Physical Description
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Readers interested in vintage computing, the history of technology, digital rhetoric, or American culture will be fascinated in this book.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2022.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 19, 2023
Series
Studies in computing and culture
Contents
Introduction. The Politics of User-Friendliness
1 On the Origins of User-Friendliness
2 The Sources of the Personal Computer Revolution
3 Appliance Computing: The Revolution Comes Home
4 IBM, Apple, and a Computer Literacy Crisis
5 The Human Factor
Coda. Imagining an Unfriendly Future.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
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