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This research arises from a background of technology studies, especially the idea of the social s... more This research arises from a background of technology studies, especially the idea of the social shaping of technology (SST) (Williams and Edge, 1996). SST places the analysis of technology in a social environment, and also asks that we understand all social relationships in the context of the material and technical world, which permeates the cultural and social. A particular area of technologies studies that inspired this research looks at media communication and information technologies in the home, and this was the basis of the research questions and design. However during the course of the five year study a great deal of literature from outside this discipline was brought in: from cultural studies, consumer research, diffusion of innovation research, leisure studies, urban and community sociology and many more.
This research arises from a background of technology studies, especially the idea of the social s... more This research arises from a background of technology studies, especially the idea of the social shaping of technology (SST) (Williams and Edge, 1996). SST places the analysis of technology in a social environment, and also asks that we understand all social relationships in the context of the material and technical world, which permeates the cultural and social. A particular area of technologies studies that inspired this research looks at media communication and information technologies in the home, and this was the basis of the research questions and design. However during the course of the five year study a great deal of literature from outside this discipline was brought in: from cultural studies, consumer research, diffusion of innovation research, leisure studies, urban and community sociology and many more.