Unpacking the television: User practices around a changing technology

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Barkhuus, Louise ^a   Brown, Barry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic technologies; Downloading; Ethnography; File sharing; Television

Indexed keywords

BROADCAST TV; DOMESTIC TECHNOLOGIES; DOWNLOADING; ETHNOGRAPHY; FILE SHARING; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; USER PRACTICES; VIDEO RECORDERS;

INTERNET; VIDEO RECORDING;

BROADCASTING;

EID: 70349921134     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1592440.1592444     Document Type: Article

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