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technologies at home
pro
1. we need technology for new informations and communications as the key to the
future
2. providing ever new forms of entertainment and leisure
cons
1. it is easy to dismiss such rhetoric as hollow, misguided or naive
2. technology has come to be associated by many with risk and uncertainly
t
critisized by
1. ann oakley, 1974 said that for conveniently forgetting the fact that for most
women the home is a site of work, but there can be a little doubt that leisure time
spent in the home increasedly
2. tomlinson,1990 said that 80 per cent of leisure time is spent in the home
according to one estimate .
daniel miller has argued in chapter 1, home isn't privatized in the sense of being
impervious or impermeable, but in that it is place where we can feel secure and
from where we can enjoy concatc with the world beyond.
3. technology and social relations
clearly such a defenition points us to the profoundly and inherently social nature
of technology : technologies are not simply isolated, physical entities.
3.2 technological determinism