ISBN:
9789812773555
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (316 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als New technologies in global societies
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. New technologies in global societies [most of the papers in this collection emerged from the session on "The co-construction of society and technology in a global world", at the 36th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology held in Beijing on July 7 - 12, 2004]
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Globalization
;
Technology
;
Technological innovations
;
Technology
;
Globalization
;
Technological innovations
;
Globalization
;
Technological innovations
;
Technology
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Technische Innovation
;
Technik
;
Globalisierung
Abstract:
Key Features:English works touching on the subject of China and ICTs are few and far between, thus this rare book will interest and benefit Western readers.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Science Technology Culture and the Body -- 1 Science and the Culture of Everyday Life in the Philippines -- 2 Technology Transfers of Chinese Universities: Is Mode 2 Sufficient for a Developing Country? -- 3 ICTs and the Human Body: A Social Representation Approach -- 4 Technological Development and Society: The Discourse on PGD in Germany -- Part 2 New Media and Generations -- 5 Analysis of the Content of Newsgroup Messages: Methodological and Technical Issues -- 6 Practices in the Use of ICTs Political Attitudes Among Youth and the Italian Media System -- 7 Teenagers and Mobile Phones in Malta: A Sociolinguistic Profile -- 8 Mobile Phones Aged Homes and Family Relations in Hong Kong Preliminary Observations -- Part 3 ICTs and Work -- 9 The Impact of Internet Use on Transnational Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chinese Immigrants to Canada -- 10 Mobile Phones and New Migrant Workers in a South China Village: An Initial Analysis of the Interplay between the "Social" and the "Technological" -- 11 The Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Southern China -- 12 Sexuality as Public Spectacle: The Transformation of Sex Information and Service in the Age of the Internet -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.
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