Byting Out the Public: Personal Computers and the Private Sphere
This dissertation analyzes the personal computer's (PC) domestication during the 1970s and 1980s in the U. S. I argue that in adopting the PC Americans debated and asserted ideas of technology, race, family, and gender. Revising previous explanations that situated the home computer as the natur...
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W&M ScholarWorks
2018
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1550153904 https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6578&context=etd |