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New technologies in global societies /
Technological advancements in the West since the last millennium have contributed to global modernity. Technologies set conditions for the closeness of the nation-states and for the affinity of the global and the local. They are also penetrating everyday life, and even sometimes the body, producing...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. :
World Scientific,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Science, technology, culture, and the body. 1. Science and the culture of everyday life in the Philippines / Raul Pertierra. 2. Technology transfers of Chinese universities: is mode 2 sufficient for a developing country? / Wei Hong. 3. ICTs and the human body: a social representation approach / Alberta Contarello and Leopoldina Fortunati. 4. Technological development and society: the discourse on PGD in Germany / Kerstin Wüstner
- pt. 2. New media and generations. 5. Analysis of the content of newsgroup messages: methodological and technical issues / Luca Giuliano. 6. Practices in the use of ICTs, political attitudes among youth, and the Italian media system / Leopoldina Fortunati and Raimondo Strassoldo. 7. Teenagers and mobile phones in Malta: a sociolinguistic profile / Lydia Sciriha. 8. Mobile phones, aged homes, and family relations in Hong Kong preliminary observations / William Wai-lim Wong
- pt. 3. ICTs and work. 9. The impact of internet use on transnational entrepreneurship: the case of Chinese immigrants to Canada / Wenhong Chen. 10. Mobile phones and new migrant workers in a South China village: an initial analysis of the interplay between the "social" and the "technological" / Wai-chi Chu and Shanhua Tang. 11. The use of mobile phones among migrant workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng. 12. Sexuality as public spectacle: the transformation of sex information and service in the age of the internet / Garland Liu and Joel Lau.