Last updated: 14th July 2022) (no new references since 2019)
* = Updated 15th May 2018
** = Updated 1st May 2019
The following selection of references reflects my choices about which papers, chapters, books, etc. relate to my interest in ICTs in everyday life. Hence, they usually report empirical research.
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Dickerson, M. and Gentry, J. (1983) 'Characteristics of Adopters and Non-Adopters of Home Computers', Journal of Consumer Research, No.10, pp.225-35.
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Downes, T. (1999) Children’s and Parents' Discourses about Computers in the Home and School’, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, Vol.5, No.4, pp.104-11.
Downes T. (2002) 'Blending Play, Practice and Performance: Children’s Use of Computer at Home'. Journal of Educational Enquiry 3, 21–34.
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Dutton, W., Rogers E. and Jun, S. (1987) ‘Diffusion and Social Impacts of Personal Computers’, Communications Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp.219-50.
Dutton, W., Kovaric, P. and Steinfield, C. (1985) 'Computing in the Home: A Research Paradigm', Computers and the Social Sciences, No.1, pp.5-18.
Dutton, W., Sweet, P. and Rogers E. (1989) ‘Socio-Economic Status and Early Diffusion of Personal Computing in the United Sates’, Social Science Computer Review, Vol.?
Egenfeldt-Nielsen, S. and Smith, J.H. (2004) Playing with Fire: How do Computer Games Affect the Player? Goteborg: UNESCO Clearinghouse for Children and Violence on the Screen.
Facer, K., Furlong, J., Furlong, R. and Sutherland, R. (2003) Screenplay: Children and Computing in the Home, Routledge, London.
Facer, K., Sutherland, R., Furlong, R. and Furlong, J. (2001), ‘What’s the Point of Using computers? The Development of Young People’s Computer Expertise in the Home’, New Media and Society, Vol.3, No.2, June, pp.199-219.
Ferrari, M. and Klinzing et al (1985) ‘Home Computers: Implications for Children and Families’, in Sussman, M. (Ed.) Personal Computers and the Family, Haworth Press, New Yourk, pp.41-57
Frohlich, D., Dray, S. and Silverman, A. (2001) 'Breaking up is hard to do: Family Perspectives on the Future of the Home PC', International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. No.54, 701-24.
Frohlich, D. and Kraut, R. (2003) ‘The Social Context of Home Computing’, in Harper, R. (Ed.) Inside the Smart Home, London: Springer, 127-162.
Gerpott, T., Thomas, S. and Weichert, M. (2013) 'Personal characteristics and mobile Internet use intensity of consumers with computer-centric communication devices: An exploratory empirical study of iPad and laptop users in Germany', Telematics and Informatics, 30, 87–99.
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Haddon, L. (1990) 'Researching Gender and Home Computers' in Sørensen, K. and Berg, A. (eds) Technology and Everyday Life: Trajectories and Transformations, University of Trondheim, Trondheim and (1993) in Vershinskaya, O.(Ed.), Informatization in the Social Sphere, Institute of Population Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Haddon, L. (1991) ‘The Cultural Production and Consumption of IT’, in MacKay, H., Young, M. and Benyon, J. (eds) Understanding Technology in Education, Falmer Press, London, pp.157-75.
Haddon, L. (1992) ‘Explaining ICT Consumption: The Case of the Home Computer’, in Silverstone, R. and Hirsch, E. (eds) Consuming Technologies: Media and Information in Domestic Spaces, Routledge, London, pp.82-96.
Haddon, L. (2011) ‘Home Computers’, in Southerton, D. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, California: Sage, pp. 740-742.
Haddon, L. and Skinner, D. (1991) 'The Enigma of the Micro: Lessons from the British Home Computer Boom', Social Science Computer Review, Fall, Vol.9, No.3, pp.455- 49.
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Håpnes, T. (1996) ‘Not in Their Machines. How Hackers Transform Computers into Subcultural Artefacts’, in Lie, M and Sørensen, K. (eds), Making Technologies Our Own? Domesticating Technology into Everyday Life, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, 121-50.
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Kennedy, H. (2005) ‘Subjective Intersections in the Face of the Machine: Gender, Race, Class and PCs in the Home’, European Journal of Women’s Studies, Vol. 12 No.4, pp.471-487.
Kerawalla L. & Crook C. (2002) 'Children’s Computer Use at Home and at School: Context and Continuity'. British Educational Research Journal 28, 751–771.
Kryszczuk, M. (2006) 'Stability and Change of Computer Possession in Households. Analysis of Structural Determinants'. Paper for the conference ‘Inclusion/Exclusion, UCL School of Slavonic and East European studies, London, 16th-18th February.
Lahtinen, H. (2000) ‘On Purchasing a Home Computer’, in Sloane, A. and van Rijn, F. (eds) Home Informatics and Telematics: Information, Technology and Society, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Mass. pp.191-204.
Lally, E. (2002) At Home with Computers, Berg, Oxford.
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Mackay, H. (1993) Completing the Circuit: The Meaning of the Mac, paper presented at the ESRC PICT National Conference, Keniworth, May.
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Paul, G. (1990) ‘Self Images and Approaches towards Life among Young Computer Fans in Germany’, in Monsi, K.(Ed.) The Private Household in Technology Research, Arbeitspaper No.10, IWT, Wuppertal.
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