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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"domestic technology"”.
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Memory-craft: The Role Of Domestic Technology In Women's Journals
… significant over time. Through the use of domestic technology, which today includes both paper scraps and home computer systems, memory-crafts assist in the interpretation of the present and provide insight into the past. To help explore the connection between domestic technology and …
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Selling the Mechanized Household to Black America: Race and Gender in Domestic Technology Advertising, 1945-1980
… and ideals attributed to her guided household technology marketing throughout the century. Bonnie Fox conducted an investigation into household technology marketing techniques, using advertisements in Ladies Home Journal (LHJ) as her source material. I argue here that, because of the …
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Housing and social change in Saudi Arabia : a community study of Hwylan village in Al Qassim region
… changes in prosperity and in house types and domestic technology have not been accompanied by fundamental changes in the value system of the community. The general conclusion drawn is that the local culture remains strong and largely resistant to outside influences despite the village's …
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“He must look upon it as his child – and a most promising one it is.” Earl de Grey and the creation of his house at Wrest Park
… its time and was enhanced by the use of emerging domestic technology, particularly regarding the provision of heating and water. De Grey was a skilled amateur architect who designed the house to his own specifications. Despite the house being remarkable in these different aspects it is neither …
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Exploring Reminiscence in Multimodal Digital Spaces
Oral storytelling is an ancient practice vital to our collective and individual well-being and a primary form of reminiscence. Modern reminiscence is often mediated by memory prompts, especially family or personal pictures. New technologies, like social networking sites, have brought picture access …
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Weaving the Home Web: A Canadian Case Study of Internet Domestication
… within the home, few have investigated internet domestication. To grasp the process of internet domestication, my research uses a Social Shaping of Technology approach to investigate how internet domestication develops as a set of contextual practices within households of East York, Ontario. My …
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'Tried and Tested’: community cookbooks in Australia, 1890-1980
… resonances in Australian social history – technology, regionalism and the development of the Australian national and civic culture. Survey of a large number of texts helps to refine understanding of how the genre has been mobilised in Australia, and how it has contributed to the broad …