Denise, I'm not certain that this is in line with what you are thinking, but the work that comes to mind for me is: Cowan, R. S. (1983). More Work for Mother: the Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave. New York: Basic Books, Inc. -Pam ____________________________________________ Pam Hassebroek, Ph.D. Student Information and Communications Policy School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, U.S.A. http://www.spp.gatech.edu/people/students/phassebroek.html -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Denise N. Rall Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 1:48 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] Internet = toaster = habitual use Hi everyone, I am still going on habituation. I am thinking of the book _Home_ by someone like Witvald Rybenscki (whew, I will have to mail in later with the cite as I cannot remember it). Who talked about 'home' (I am taking off from 'habitas' here - on the arrival of the culture of the home) - and I hope not to mean Martha Stewart here, but she plans her role in the 21st century home, I guess. This author (mispelled above) said the culture of home came from the Brits, and more specifically, Jane Austen, in the sense of the comfortable or cozy home, the domesticity that we often think of today. I was also thinking to further tie these concepts of home use in with habitual use, there would also be some level of consumption centered around the internet in the home. "home consumption" and that the home moved, in England, from the center of production to the center of consumption. I was exactly thinking of domestication and Silverstone, thanks to another writer - but also that domestication - the Scandanavians have done a lot of work on that, how technology is included in the home as a domestic practice. Don't have anything too specific in mind here, there are many later anthologies, this is the only one I had kicking around in Endnotes: Women, work and computerisation: Forming new alliances.(1989) K. Tijdens and e. al. Amsterdam, North-Holland: 153-160. There's tons more work here to be done on this. Denise ===== "Stupidity is not just a lack of content; it's also a process" Denise N. Rall, Sustainable Forestry Mentoring Coordinator & PhD student, School of Education, Southern Cross University, PO Box 157, Lismore, NSW, 2480 Australia Phone +61-2-6624-8627 Fax +61-2-6624-8637 Office (Tuesdays) (02) 6620 3577 Mob 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/edu/research/deniserall/index.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l