America identified : biometric technology and society / / Lisa S. Nelson |
Autore | Nelson Lisa S. (Lisa Sue) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Social aspects
Biometric identification Privacy, Right of Social interaction - Technological innovations |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-262-28875-3
1-282-97847-0 9786612978470 0-262-28968-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Modern identification -- September 11 -- Privacy and biometric technology -- Anonymity -- Trust and confidence -- Paternalism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458431203321 |
Nelson Lisa S. (Lisa Sue)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2011 | ||
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America identified : biometric technology and society / / Lisa S. Nelson |
Autore | Nelson Lisa S (Lisa Sue) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.48/3 |
Soggetto topico |
Technological innovations - Social aspects
Biometric identification Privacy, Right of Social interaction - Technological innovations |
Soggetto non controllato |
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law |
ISBN |
0-262-28875-3
1-282-97847-0 9786612978470 0-262-28968-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Modern identification -- September 11 -- Privacy and biometric technology -- Anonymity -- Trust and confidence -- Paternalism -- Conclusion. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791658703321 |
Nelson Lisa S (Lisa Sue)
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
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Where are you Africa? [[electronic resource] ] : church and society in the mobile phone age / / Castor M. Goliama |
Autore | Goliama Castor M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Cell phones - Social aspects - Africa
Communication and culture - Africa Social interaction - Technological innovations |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-00487-9
9786613004871 9956-579-03-3 9956-579-01-7 9956-578-94-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Mobile Phone and its Emergent Cultures; Quest for Mobile Phone Theology in Africa; Mobile Cultures, Corruption and the Church in Africa; Chapter Outline; Notes; CHAPTER ONE - Media of Social Communications in Pre-Mobile phone Africa; Oral Media; Visits; Meetings and Marketplaces; Talking Drums; Print and Electronic Media; Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue per Radio-call; Gospel Music; Political Manipulation of Gospel Music; Gospel Music and HIV / AIDS; African Gilms with Religious Themes
Hallelujah Films and Ecumenical / Interreligious DialogueConcluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER TWO - Is the Mobile Phone Liberating Africa?; The Mobile Phone as a Transformative Factor; Mobile Phones and Africa's Communication ""Revolution""; Mobile Communication ""Revolution"" and the ""Wealth Paradox""; Mobile Phones and Poverty Alleviation; Optimistic Signs; Mobile phone as Globalisation: Have the Rules Changed?; Sacrifices of the Poor at the Altar of Modernity; Mobile Phone Mania; Polarisation between the Rich and the Poor; Online Beggars and Dependency Syndrome Feminisation of the Mobile Phone and African WomenAmplifying the Voices of African Women; which Mobiles are Suitable for African Women?; Enganging Mobile in Health Issues; Globalisation of African Traditional Healers; Mobiles and Democratisation of Africa; 'Paparazzi-boom' and Empowerment of Whistleblowers; Spiritual Undertones of Mobile Communications; Will the Rosary Survive?; The Mobile Phone and the Idolatry of Work; Faith Communities and Negotiation of Mobile Technologies; Negotiation with Teleophone by Amish Church; The 'Kosher' Cell-phone in Israel; Concluding Remarks; Notes CHAPTER THREE - Mobile Cultures and Ubuntu Paradigm of SolidarityAnatomy of Mobile Cultures; Ubuntu Philosophy of Life; Ubuntu-enhancing Mobile Cultures; Solidarity in Sharing Mobile Handsets; Crossing Social Divides and Interconnectedness; The Mobile Question ""Where are you?""; Virtual versus Face-to-face Communication; Youth-empowering Mobile Cultures; Women and Subversion of Traditional Gender Roles; Mobile Reinforcement of Social Integrity; Mutual Empowerment between Migrant and Home Folks; Anti-Ubuntu Mobile Cultures; When 'Absent-presence' Overshadows Neighbour Intrusion of Public OrderServing Two Masters at Time; The Youth now ""hanging out"" Digitally; African Women: Digitally confined to the ""Kitchen""; Mobile Gossip and Intrusion of Private Life; Mobile Addiction Tendencies; Mobile Alibis and Denialist Attitudes of African Leaders; Uncritical Consumption of Mobile-mediated Products; Utilitarian Mobile Working Cultures; Mobile Cultures and the Millstones of Migration; ""Absent Presence"" and the Culture of Blame; Fragility of Ubuntu Solidarity in Current Africa; Concluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER FOUR - Mobile Cultures and Social Justice Media as ""Gifts of God"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910460451403321 |
Goliama Castor M
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Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Where are you Africa? [[electronic resource] ] : church and society in the mobile phone age / / Castor M. Goliama |
Autore | Goliama Castor M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
Soggetto topico |
Cell phones - Social aspects - Africa
Communication and culture - Africa Social interaction - Technological innovations |
ISBN |
1-283-00487-9
9786613004871 9956-579-03-3 9956-579-01-7 9956-578-94-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Mobile Phone and its Emergent Cultures; Quest for Mobile Phone Theology in Africa; Mobile Cultures, Corruption and the Church in Africa; Chapter Outline; Notes; CHAPTER ONE - Media of Social Communications in Pre-Mobile phone Africa; Oral Media; Visits; Meetings and Marketplaces; Talking Drums; Print and Electronic Media; Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue per Radio-call; Gospel Music; Political Manipulation of Gospel Music; Gospel Music and HIV / AIDS; African Gilms with Religious Themes
Hallelujah Films and Ecumenical / Interreligious DialogueConcluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER TWO - Is the Mobile Phone Liberating Africa?; The Mobile Phone as a Transformative Factor; Mobile Phones and Africa's Communication ""Revolution""; Mobile Communication ""Revolution"" and the ""Wealth Paradox""; Mobile Phones and Poverty Alleviation; Optimistic Signs; Mobile phone as Globalisation: Have the Rules Changed?; Sacrifices of the Poor at the Altar of Modernity; Mobile Phone Mania; Polarisation between the Rich and the Poor; Online Beggars and Dependency Syndrome Feminisation of the Mobile Phone and African WomenAmplifying the Voices of African Women; which Mobiles are Suitable for African Women?; Enganging Mobile in Health Issues; Globalisation of African Traditional Healers; Mobiles and Democratisation of Africa; 'Paparazzi-boom' and Empowerment of Whistleblowers; Spiritual Undertones of Mobile Communications; Will the Rosary Survive?; The Mobile Phone and the Idolatry of Work; Faith Communities and Negotiation of Mobile Technologies; Negotiation with Teleophone by Amish Church; The 'Kosher' Cell-phone in Israel; Concluding Remarks; Notes CHAPTER THREE - Mobile Cultures and Ubuntu Paradigm of SolidarityAnatomy of Mobile Cultures; Ubuntu Philosophy of Life; Ubuntu-enhancing Mobile Cultures; Solidarity in Sharing Mobile Handsets; Crossing Social Divides and Interconnectedness; The Mobile Question ""Where are you?""; Virtual versus Face-to-face Communication; Youth-empowering Mobile Cultures; Women and Subversion of Traditional Gender Roles; Mobile Reinforcement of Social Integrity; Mutual Empowerment between Migrant and Home Folks; Anti-Ubuntu Mobile Cultures; When 'Absent-presence' Overshadows Neighbour Intrusion of Public OrderServing Two Masters at Time; The Youth now ""hanging out"" Digitally; African Women: Digitally confined to the ""Kitchen""; Mobile Gossip and Intrusion of Private Life; Mobile Addiction Tendencies; Mobile Alibis and Denialist Attitudes of African Leaders; Uncritical Consumption of Mobile-mediated Products; Utilitarian Mobile Working Cultures; Mobile Cultures and the Millstones of Migration; ""Absent Presence"" and the Culture of Blame; Fragility of Ubuntu Solidarity in Current Africa; Concluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER FOUR - Mobile Cultures and Social Justice Media as ""Gifts of God"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789854303321 |
Goliama Castor M
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Bamenda, Cameroon, : Langaa, 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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