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.
Ahn, J. and Randall, G. (2007) Computer Game Addiction. Available at: http://andrewd.ces.clemson.edu/courses/cpsc414/spring07/chp/team3.pdf
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Aune, M. (1996) ‘The Computer in Everyday Life: Patterns of Domestication of a New Technology’, in Lie, M and Sørensen (eds) Making Technologies Our Own? Domesticating Technology into Everyday Life, Scandinavian University Press, Oslo, pp.91-120.
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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.
Dilaver,O. (2014) 'Making sense of innovations: A comparison of personal computers and mobile phones', New Media & Society, Vol. 16(8) 1214–1232
Downes T. (1998) 'Using the Computer at Home'. In IT for Learning Enhancement (ed. M. Monteith), Intellect Books, Oxford, pp. 61–78.
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.
Durkin, K. and Barber, B. (2002) ‘Not so Doomed: Computer Game Play and Positive Adolescent Development’, Applied Developmental Psychology, No. 23, pp.373–392.
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.
Griffiths M., and Hunt, N. (1995) Computer Game Playing in Adolescence Prevalence and Demographic Indicators. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, No.5., pp.189–194.
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. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67958/
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. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67960/
Haddon, L. (2011) ‘Home Computers’, in Southerton, D. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture, California: Sage, pp. 740-742. http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/62765/
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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**Kelly, J. (2009) ‘Not so revolutionary after all: The role of reinforcing frames in US magazine discourse about microcomputers’, New Media and Society, 18(1), 17-31.
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.
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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.
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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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Norman, D. (1998) The Invisible Computer. Why Good Products can Fail, the Personal Computer is so Complex, and Information Appliances are the Solution, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
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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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