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New technologies in global societies /

This book investigates the process of negotiation between societies and information and communication technologies (ICTs); how ICTs evolve in this global world, transforming the organization of everyday life as well as the production of technologies. It analyzes how societies mediate the quantity an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Luo, Peilin, Fortunati, Leopoldina, Yang, Shanhua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Jersey : World Scientific, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 Science Technology Culture and the Body
  • 1 Science and the Culture of Everyday Life in the Philippines
  • 2 Technology Transfers of Chinese Universities: Is Mode 2 Sufficient for a Developing Country?
  • 3 ICTs and the Human Body: A Social Representation Approach
  • 4 Technological Development and Society: The Discourse on PGD in Germany
  • Part 2 New Media and Generations
  • 5 Analysis of the Content of Newsgroup Messages: Methodological and Technical Issues
  • 6 Practices in the Use of ICTs Political Attitudes Among Youth and the Italian Media System
  • 7 Teenagers and Mobile Phones in Malta: A Sociolinguistic Profile
  • 8 Mobile Phones Aged Homes and Family Relations in Hong Kong Preliminary Observations
  • Part 3 ICTs and Work
  • 9 The Impact of Internet Use on Transnational Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chinese Immigrants to Canada
  • 10 Mobile Phones and New Migrant Workers in a South China Village: An Initial Analysis of the Interplay between the "Social" and the "Technological"
  • 11 The Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Southern China
  • 12 Sexuality as Public Spectacle: The Transformation of Sex Information and Service in the Age of the Internet
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index.