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Living the information society in Asia / edited by Erwin Alampay

Singapore [u.a.] : ISEAS, 2009

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 253 pages) : Illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-55250-453-6 ; 1-55250-453-0 ; 978-981-230-873-3

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 ...