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Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa.
Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS].
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1990.
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| Colección: | Approaches to Semiotics AS.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment
- Introduction
- Chapter One The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings
- Chapter Two Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation
- Chapter Three New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control
- Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution
- Chapter Four The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast
- Chapter Five Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting.
- Chapter Six Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity
- Part III: Simulating Postmodernity
- Chapter Seven Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies
- Chapter Eight The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption
- Chapter Nine Terminal Signs
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index.