03007nam 2200637Ia 450 991046195450332120211203004148.03-11-085723-510.1515/9783110857238(CKB)2670000000251619(EBL)935460(OCoLC)843205051(SSID)ssj0000595422(PQKBManifestationID)11362509(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000595422(PQKBWorkID)10554949(PQKB)11509242(MiAaPQ)EBC935460(WaSeSS)Ind00012487(DE-B1597)54638(OCoLC)979747991(DE-B1597)9783110857238(Au-PeEL)EBL935460(CaPaEBR)ebr10599197(EXLCZ)99267000000025161919891206d1990 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrTerminal signs[electronic resource] computers and social change in Africa /by Bennetta Jules-RosetteReprint 2010Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyter19901 online resource (440 p.)Approaches to semiotics ;90Description based upon print version of record.3-11-012221-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index.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 --IndexTerminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS]Approaches to Semiotics [AS]ComputersSocial aspectsAfricaComputers and civilizationElectronic books.ComputersSocial aspectsComputers and civilization.303.48/34/096Jules-Rosette Bennetta244204MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461954503321Terminal signs2452813UNINA