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Autore: | Jules-Rosette Bennetta |
Titolo: | Terminal signs [[electronic resource] ] : computers and social change in Africa / / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48/34/096 |
Soggetto topico: | Computers - Social aspects - Africa |
Computers and civilization | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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] |
Titolo autorizzato: | Terminal signs |
ISBN: | 3-11-085723-5 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461954503321 |
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