Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life - Ethnographic Approaches (Hardcover, New edition)

Focusing on the technoculture of everyday life, this book attempts to zero in on the simplicity and the habitual character of the interaction between humans and material objects, which is often assumed or taken for granted. Because objects are always meaningful in the pragmatic use to which they are directed, the material world of everyday life can be seen as a technoculture of its own - one made of behaviors as simple, and yet as significant, as using a lawnmower, or decorating one's body. In discussing the unique methodological components of the ethnography of the technoculture of everyday life, this book begins a dialogue on how we can examine - from the participants' perspective - the interconnections between social agents, their technological/material practices, their material objects or technics, and their social and material environment.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Intersections in Communications and Culture, 25
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	Phillip Vannini
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	256
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-4331-0302-5
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN:	1-4331-0302-8
Barcode:	9781433103025

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