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Dot Com Mantra : Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

Arora, Payal, 1975- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

1st ed.

Farnham : Routledge, 2010 [©2010.]

1 online resource (207 pages)

Englisch

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Erscheint auch als: Dot com mantra / Arora, Payal (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4094-0108-7

978-1-4094-0107-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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LOC-SH: Internet -- Social aspects -- India -- Almora ; Computer networks -- Social aspects -- India -- Almora ; Computer literacy -- India -- Almora ; Almora (India) -- Social conditions

Electronic books ; local ; Almora (India) ; Social conditions ; Computer literacy ; India ; Almora ; Computer networks ; Social aspects ; India ; Almora ; Internet ; Social aspects ; India ; Almora ; Electronic books ; Internet / Social aspects / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Internet / Economic aspects / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Right to Internet access / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Computer users / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Internet and the poor / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Education / Effect of technological innovations on / Himalaya Mountains Region ; Rural poor / Education / Technological innovations / Himalaya Mountains Region

Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. 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 for the most part undocumented. In doing so, this book offers fresh and critical perspectives in areas of contemporary debate: informal learning with computers, cyberleisure, gender access and empowerment, digital intermediaries, and glocalization of information and media.

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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! -- In Search of a Man-Eating Catfish -- Here Comes Sonia Gandhi! -- Swami Mafia -- In God We Trust, the Rest is All Cash: The Simple Villager? -- 4 New Technology, Old Practices -- It's All in the Family -- The Darling Child of Development: The Cellphone -- Cashing in on Technology -- Playing Low Key -- Chullah and the Pump: Gender and Technology -- Part II Computers and Rural Development -- 5 Goodbye to the Patwaris -- Peasant Revolutions of the Past and Present -- New Intermediaries in the Making -- E-Agriculture Solutions Coming to Town -- Kisan Sangattans -- Consensus, Contention and Circulation of Conversation -- Learning to Decide -- 6 Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning -- Ethnographer as Archeologist -- Digging Up the Past -- School As You Go -- Private Distance from Public Education -- Playground Kiosk Democracy -- A Beautiful Idea -- Part III Computing and Cybercafés -- 7 Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas -- Cybercafés as After-School Centers -- You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours -- Who's the Boss? -- The Perfect Thesis -- The "Epidemic" of Plagiarism -- 8 Let's Go Shopping! -- New Educational Consumers -- Shop Till You Drop -- Mona Lisa and Bathroom Tiles -- Are Finders Keepers? -- 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning -- Orkut Saves the Day.