This book is for two kinds of people: 1) researchers and students who are interested in technophobia in an academical sense 2) people who are in charge of designing the use of computers in public places like schools, libraries, educational and other public services.

I as a student of Usability and User Interface design got very little of this text. The basic stuff was sometimes interesting to me, but the academical form of the text was a downer. There were occasions where a sentence was cut of by references and continues after four (4!) lines of ref. listing. I had to reread the beginning of the sentence just to remember what was being discussed. The text uses the references as part of text constantly, in a very annoying way. Instead of saying "A is B (Doe 1995)." it says "According to (Doe 1995) A is B." and that lessens the readability when it is present in every paragraph.

I had trouble deciding wether to give 2 or 3 stars. I gave 3 because I think that academic people will get more out of this text. If you are not one of them, beware!

PS. Every chapter ended with a very good summary. I found this very helpful when preparing for the exam of the class.