The Care and Feeding of the Computer: Imagining Machines' Preventive Care and Medicine.

This article investigates how computing discourses, including user guides, news articles, and advertisements, urged personal computer users in the 1970s and 1980s to preventively care for their devices. Through hygiene recommendations related to eating, drinking, and dusting, these discourses warned...

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Publicado en:Information & Culture Vol. 58; no. 1; pp. 66 - 84
Autor principal: Plotnick, Rachel
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Texas Press 2023
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