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The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990./
Author:	Hilu, Reem.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	234 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-10A(E).
Subject:	Mass communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10279758
ISBN:	9781369818826

The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990.
Hilu, Reem.

The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 234 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2017.

In the 1970s and 1980s, computer technologies became newly available for use in the home in the form of personal computers, video game consoles, and microprocessors embedded into existing domestic objects and appliances. This dissertation examines the path through which computers were incorporated into domestic space and into the everyday practices of family life during this period. I interrogate the influence on the home of computing culture broadly -- looking not only at computer technologies themselves, but also the discourses of cybernetics that arose in conjunction with these technologies in the 1940s and that spread in later decades to influence therapeutic discourses on family life. I suggest that representations, discourses, and technologies of home computing constructed an ideal of domestic relations that can best be described as a "family circuit." By exploring the family circuit, this dissertation argues that discourses and technologies of computing recast the family as a system of communication intimately intertwined with digital media. At the same time, I argue that the computer was also shaped by the encounter with family life, being redefined as a domestic medium and an extension of familial intimacy.

ISBN: 9781369818826Subjects--Topical Terms:

2144804
Mass communication.

The Family Circuit: Gender, Games, and Domestic Computing Culture, 1945-1990.
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