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Living the Information Society in Asia /

Undeniably, Asian societies are in a period of transition, when people are learning to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) - whether in commerce, government or development work. Living the Information Society in Asia describes the interaction of people and new ICTs as the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: International Development Research Centre (Canada), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Otros Autores: Alampay, Erwin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Contributors""; ""Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia""; ""1 What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society""; ""2 What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship?""; ""3 Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network?""; ""4 Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability""
  • ""5 Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism""""6 Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India""; ""7 Stories from e-Bario""; ""8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less""; ""9 Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments""; ""10 Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels""
  • ""11 The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers""""12 Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""