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Titolo: | Internet and society in Latin America and the Caribbean / / edited by Marcelo Bonilla and Gilles Cliche |
Pubblicazione: | Ottawa, : International Development Research Centre, c2004 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (448 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.48 |
Soggetto topico: | Information society |
Internet - Social aspects | |
Altri autori: | ClicheGilles <1956-> BonillaMarcelo |
Note generali: | Translation of: Internet y sociedad en America Latina y el Caribe. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Foreword.; Acknowledgements.; Biographical notes on the authors and research coordinators.; Introduction; The Internet and its impact on Latin American and Caribbean society: Research and dialogue.; The Internet, culture and education; Navigators and castaways in cyberspace: Psychosocial experience and cultural practices in school children's Internet.; Introducing new information and communication technologies in two rural schools of central Chile: An ethnographic approximation.; Learning from the pioneers: Best practices as exemplified in the TELAR network. |
The social impact of the Internet at the local levelThe social impact of introducing ICTs in local government and public services: Case studies in Buenos Aires and Montevideo.; The social impact of information and communication technologies at the local level.; The Internet and local governance: Towards the creation of a community habitus.; Measuring qualitative and quantitative impacts: Design and implementation of online registra | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book presents pioneering research that is designed to show, from a qualitative and ethnographic perspective, how new information and communication technologies, as applied to the school system and to local governance initiatives, merely reproduce traditional pedagogical approaches and the dominant forms by which power is exercised at the local level. The studies thus constitute points of departure for further thinking about the need to promote an Internet culture based on the social application of a "right to communication and culture" and an "Internet right," that will permit the establi |
Titolo autorizzato: | Internet and society in Latin America and the Caribbean |
ISBN: | 1-280-71727-0 |
9786610717279 | |
1-55250-017-9 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814890103321 |
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