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This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on issues of free learning with computers, the range...
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| Sprache: | English |
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| Schriftenreihe: | Voices in development management.
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| Zusammenfassung: | This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on issues of free learning with computers, the range and role of actors as intermediaries of digital information, impact of direct versus indirect access on social computing, gender and technology and transnational consumption and production of knowledge. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xv, 190 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409401087 1409401081 1317148320 9781317148326 1282743732 9781282743731 9786612743733 6612743735 |
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| spelling | Arora, Payal. Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / by Payal Arora. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010. 1 online resource (xv, 190 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier polychrome. rdacc http://rdaregistry.info/termList/RDAColourContent/1003 data file Voices in development management Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Local as Celebrity; Social Learning with Computers; Methodology; Techno-Revelations for Development Policy and Practice; Organization of the Argument; 2 Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap; The Pathway to Good Intentions: The Development Story; New Technology and Social Change; Anthropology of the Artifact: Contexts -- Communities -- Conducts; Human Ingenuity, Technology and Development in India; Part I Almora; 3 This is India, Madam!; 4 New Technology, Old Practices Part II Computers and Rural Development5 Goodbye to the Patwaris; 6 Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning; Part III Computing and Cybercafés; 7 Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas; 8 Let's Go Shopping!; 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on issues of free learning with computers, the range and role of actors as intermediaries of digital information, impact of direct versus indirect access on social computing, gender and technology and transnational consumption and production of knowledge. English. Internet Social aspects India Almora. Computer networks Social aspects India Almora. Computer literacy India Almora. Almora (India) Social conditions. COMPUTERS Information Technology. bisacsh Computer literacy fast Computer networks Social aspects fast Internet Social aspects fast Social conditions fast India Almora fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgMtrHdDT8w9W9QGbrg8C has work: Dot com mantra (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFPqYHHPtfxJRyMy9vwP73 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Arora, Payal. Dot com mantra. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010 9781409401070 (DLC) 2010017056 (OCoLC)613645322 Voices in development management. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005079996 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=389803 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Arora, Payal Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / Voices in development management. Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Local as Celebrity; Social Learning with Computers; Methodology; Techno-Revelations for Development Policy and Practice; Organization of the Argument; 2 Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap; The Pathway to Good Intentions: The Development Story; New Technology and Social Change; Anthropology of the Artifact: Contexts -- Communities -- Conducts; Human Ingenuity, Technology and Development in India; Part I Almora; 3 This is India, Madam!; 4 New Technology, Old Practices Part II Computers and Rural Development5 Goodbye to the Patwaris; 6 Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning; Part III Computing and Cybercafés; 7 Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas; 8 Let's Go Shopping!; 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Internet Social aspects India Almora. Computer networks Social aspects India Almora. Computer literacy India Almora. COMPUTERS Information Technology. bisacsh Computer literacy fast Computer networks Social aspects fast Internet Social aspects fast Social conditions fast |
| title | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / |
| title_auth | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / |
| title_exact_search | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / |
| title_full | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / by Payal Arora. |
| title_fullStr | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / by Payal Arora. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / by Payal Arora. |
| title_short | Dot com mantra : |
| title_sort | dot com mantra social computing in the central himalayas |
| title_sub | social computing in the Central Himalayas / |
| topic | Internet Social aspects India Almora. Computer networks Social aspects India Almora. Computer literacy India Almora. COMPUTERS Information Technology. bisacsh Computer literacy fast Computer networks Social aspects fast Internet Social aspects fast Social conditions fast |
| topic_facet | Internet Social aspects India Almora. Computer networks Social aspects India Almora. Computer literacy India Almora. Almora (India) Social conditions. COMPUTERS Information Technology. Computer literacy Computer networks Social aspects Internet Social aspects Social conditions India Almora |
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