LEADER 04709nam 22006854a 450 001 9910458313203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-92485-7 010 $a9786611924850 010 $a981-277-355-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000403584 035 $a(EBL)1681652 035 $a(OCoLC)820942693 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210822 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11197027 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210822 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10292395 035 $a(PQKB)11487218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1681652 035 $a(WSP)00006113 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1681652 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10201472 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL192485 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000403584 100 $a20060512d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aNew technologies in global societies$b[electronic resource] /$feditors Pui-Lam Law, Leopoldina Fortunati, Shanhua Yang 210 $aNew Jersey $cWorld Scientific$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (316 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a981-256-812-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents ; 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? 327 $a3 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 327 $a6 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 327 $a9 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"" 327 $a11 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 330 $a Technological advancements in the West since the last millennium have contributed to global modernity. Technologies set conditions for the closeness of the nation-states and for the affinity of the global and the local. They are also penetrating everyday life, and even sometimes the body, producing radical social changes. Yet, arguing that new technologies bring a new life and a promising future to global societies remains a questionable thesis. This book attempts to explore the relationship between new technologies and global societies, to gain an understanding of how the positive as well a 606 $aTechnological innovations 606 $aTechnology 606 $aGlobalization 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTechnological innovations. 615 0$aTechnology. 615 0$aGlobalization. 676 $a303.48/3 701 $aLuo$b Peilin$0931586 701 $aFortunati$b Leopoldina$0143852 701 $aYang$b Shanhua$0931587 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458313203321 996 $aNew technologies in global societies$92095562 997 $aUNINA