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

• Autore: Jules-Rosette Bennetta
• 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
• Classificazione: MS 1170
• 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.: 9910785851903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Approaches to Semiotics [AS]