Living the Information Society in Asia

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2009

Living the Information Society in Asia

Edited by: Erwin Alampay

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812309099

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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 technologies seep into everyday life, such as how mobile phones forge relationships among families separated by migration, how camera phones threaten personal space, how cultural identities are strengthened in call centres, and how religion is incorporated into the new communication technologies people use. Living the Information society in Asia looks at the phenomenon as it unfolds and raises the implications for policy and future research.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
FOREWORD Laurent Elder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
CONTRIBUTORS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia Erwin Alampay Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society Rich Ling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship? Daniel Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
3. Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network? Raul Pertierra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4. Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability Jean-François Doulet and Shang Dan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism Bart A. Barendregt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6. Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India Gopalan Ravindran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
7. Stories from e-Bario John Tarawe and Roger W. Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less Jack Linchuan Qiu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
9. Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments Jocelyn C. Cuaresma Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
10. Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses 186 in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels Jonathan Donner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
11. The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers Ma. Regina M. Hechanova Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
12. Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs Kamolrat Intaratat and Piyachat Lomchavakarn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: April 14, 2009
ISBN: 9789812309099