ISBN:
0899256163
,
9783110122213
,
9783110857238
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xvi, 424 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Approaches to semiotics 90
Parallel Title:
Print version Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa
DDC:
303.48/34/096
Keywords:
Computers and civilization
;
Computers Social aspects
;
Kenia
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Informationstechnik
;
Elfenbeinküste
Abstract:
Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS]
Description / Table of Contents:
Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment; Introduction; Chapter One The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings; Chapter Two Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation; Chapter Three New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control; Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution; Chapter Four The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast; Chapter Five Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Six Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical SolidarityPart III: Simulating Postmodernity; Chapter Seven Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies; Chapter Eight The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption; Chapter Nine Terminal Signs; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1515/9783110857238
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