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This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on issues of free learning with computers, the range...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Arora, Payal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010.
Colección:Voices in development management.
Temas:
Internet > Social aspects > India > Almora.
Computer networks > Social aspects > India > Almora.
Computer literacy > India > Almora.
COMPUTERS > Information Technology.
Computer literacy.
Computer networks > Social aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Social conditions.
Almora (India) > Social conditions.
India > Almora.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Local as Celebrity; Social Learning with Computers; Methodology; Techno-Revelations for Development Policy and Practice; Organization of the Argument; 2 Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap; The Pathway to Good Intentions: The Development Story; New Technology and Social Change; Anthropology of the Artifact: Contexts
  • Communities
  • Conducts; Human Ingenuity, Technology and Development in India; Part I Almora; 3 This is India, Madam!; 4 New Technology, Old Practices
  • Part II Computers and Rural Development5 Goodbye to the Patwaris; 6 Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning; Part III Computing and Cybercafés; 7 Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas; 8 Let's Go Shopping!; 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

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