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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores Corporativos: Living the Information Society Conference (-), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, issuing body (issuing body), International Development Research Centre (Canada), issuing body
Otros Autores: Alampay, Erwin, editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies 2009.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438757006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD / Elder, Laurent
  • PREFACE
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia / Alampay, Erwin
  • 1. What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society / Ling, Rich
  • 2. What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship? / Miller, Daniel
  • 3. Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network? / Pertierra, Raul
  • 4. Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability / Doulet, Jean-François / Dan, Shang
  • 5. Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism / Barendregt, Bart A.
  • 6. Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India / Ravindran, Gopalan
  • 7. Stories from e-Bario / Tarawe, John / Harris, Roger W.
  • 8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less / Qiu, Jack Linchuan
  • 9. Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments / Cuaresma, Jocelyn C.
  • 10. Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses 186 in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels / Donner, Jonathan
  • 11. The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers / Hechanova, Ma. Regina M.
  • 12. Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs / Intaratat, Kamolrat / Lomchavakarn, Piyachat
  • INDEX