LEADER 02975nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910811169503321 005 20230207214510.0 010 $a3-11-085723-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110857238 035 $a(CKB)2670000000251619 035 $a(EBL)935460 035 $a(OCoLC)843205051 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000595422 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362509 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000595422 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10554949 035 $a(PQKB)11509242 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC935460 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00012487 035 $a(DE-B1597)54638 035 $a(OCoLC)979747991 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110857238 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL935460 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10599197 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000251619 100 $a19891206d1990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTerminal signs $ecomputers and social change in Africa /$fby Bennetta Jules-Rosette 205 $aReprint 2010 210 $aBerlin ;$aNew York $cMouton de Gruyter$d1990 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 225 0 $aApproaches to semiotics ;$v90 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-012221-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tPart I: Computers in an Alien Environment --$tIntroduction --$tChapter One: The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings --$tChapter Two: Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation --$tChapter Three: New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control --$tPart II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution --$tChapter Four: The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast --$tChapter Five: Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting --$tChapter Six: Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity --$tPart III: Simulating Postmodernity --$tChapter Seven: Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies --$tChapter Eight: The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption --$tChapter Nine: Terminal Signs --$tNotes --$tGlossary --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aTerminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS] 410 0$aApproaches to Semiotics [AS] 606 $aComputers$xSocial aspects$zAfrica 606 $aComputers and civilization 615 0$aComputers$xSocial aspects 615 0$aComputers and civilization. 676 $a303.48/34/096 686 $aMS 1170$2rvk 700 $aJules-Rosette$b Bennetta$0244204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811169503321 996 $aTerminal signs$94020566 997 $aUNINA