NEW YORK: Over the past year, I stopped responding to customer surveys, providing user feedback or, mostly, contributing product reviews. Sometimes I feel obligated – even eager – to provide this information. Who doesn’t like being asked their opinion? But, in researching media technologies as an anthropologist, I see these requests as part of a broader trend making home life bureaucratic. Consumer technologies, whether user reviews and recommendations, social media or health care portals, involve logistical effort that means more administrative work at home....
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