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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785851903321

Autore

Jules-Rosette Bennetta

Titolo

Terminal signs [[electronic resource] ] : computers and social change in Africa / / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990

ISBN

3-11-085723-5

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Collana

Approaches to semiotics ; ; 90

Classificazione

MS 1170

Disciplina

303.48/34/096

Soggetti

Computers - Social aspects - Africa

Computers and civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa   Approaches to Semiotics [AS]