ENGLISH

Dot Com Mantra

By Payal Arora

Book information

Publisher
Ashgate
Year
2010
ISBN
1409401073, 9781409401070
LCC
HN690.A455 A76 2010
Open Library ID
OL24566517M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3071809 bytes)
Series
Voices in Development Management
Pages
207\207
Library
demonoid.me
Time added
2011-03-04 03:37:09

Description

Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. 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 for the most part undocumented. In doing so, this book offers fresh and critical perspectives on issues of contemporary debate: free learning with computers, relevant and global information, 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.

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