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UNINA9910785851903321 |
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Autore |
Jules-Rosette Bennetta |
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Titolo |
Terminal signs [[electronic resource] ] : computers and social change in Africa / / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2010] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (440 p.) |
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Collana |
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Approaches to semiotics ; ; 90 |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Computers - Social aspects - Africa |
Computers and civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 -- Chapter Six: Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity -- Part 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS] |
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