Dissertation Research: Home on the Road: Domesticity, Technology, and the Meanings of Mobile Space

该项目利用了从档案材料到物质文化的一系列资源，以提出关于消费者与技术关系的更大的社会问题。它认为，旅行者需要了解交通空间的历史发展，以便更有效地干预当代技术的设计和使用。更具体地说，这个项目考察了交通空间的文化建设，重点关注汽车旅游和移动空间的创造。这篇论文认为，游客和修补匠（非专业的发明家）重新设计汽车是为了满足他们自己的需求，而不是接受设计师、制造商和广告商兜售的移动性、技术和性别的意识形态。这项工作将用户/旅行者作为工业和机械设计的积极参与者，并将旅行者对汽车的修改作为一种反对技术权威的形式进行检查。

The project draws on a range of resources from archival materials to material culture in order to raise larger social questions about the relationship of consumers to technology. It argues that travelers need to understand the historical development of transportation space in order to more effectively intervene in the design and use of contemporary technologies. More specifically, this project examines the cultural construction of transportation space, focusing on auto touring and the creation of mobile space. The thesis argues that tourists and tinkers (non-professional inventors) re-designed the automobile to fit their own needs rather than accepting the ideologies of mobility, technology, and gender sold by designers, manufacturers, and advertisers. The work presents users/travelers as active participants in industrial and mechanical design and examines modification of the car by travelers as a form of opposition to technological authority.