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Author : Cees J. Hamelink
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Communication
ISBN :
Author : Gary Krug
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 2005-01-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780761972013
Gary Krug demonstrates how communication technology must be studied as an integral part of culture and lived-experience. Rather than stand in awe of the apparent explosion of new technologies, this book links key moments and developments in communication technology with the social conditions of their time.
Author : Pnina Fichman
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 47,27 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1608457753
Research on multiculturalism and information and communication technology (ICT) has been important to understanding recent history, planning for future large-scale initiatives, and understanding unrealized expectations for social and technological change. This interdisciplinary area of research has examined interactions between ICT and culture at the group and society levels. However, there is debate within the literature as to the nature of the relationship between culture and technology. In this synthesis, we suggest that the tensions result from the competing ideologies that drive researchers, allowing us to conceptualize the relationship between culture and ICT under three primary models, each with its own assumptions: 1) Social informatics, 2) Social determinism, and 3) Technological determinism. Social informatics views the relationship to be one of sociotechnical interaction, in which culture and ICTs affect each other mutually and iteratively, rather than linearly; the vast majority of the literature approach the relationships between ICT and culture under the assumptions of social informatics. From a socially deterministic perspective, ICTs are viewed as the dependent variable in the equation, whereas, from a technologically deterministic perspective, ICTs are an independent variable. The issues of multiculturalism and ICTs attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under a myriad of contexts, with substantial literature on global development, social and political issues, business and public administration as well as education and scholarly collaboration. We synthesize here research in the areas of global development, social and political issues, and business collaboration. Finally we conclude by proposing under-explored areas for future research directions.
Author : Xiaoling Zhang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 16,91 MB
Release : 2009-03-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134042663
In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China has overtaken the USA as the world’s biggest supplier of information technology goods. However, this transformation has occurred against the backdrop of a resolutely authoritarian political system and strict censorship by the Party-state. This book examines China’s ICT revolution, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China’s transition to a more information-rich and communication-intensive society. The pace of the development of ICT in China has precipitated much speculation about political change and democratisation. This book explores the reality of ICT in China, showing clearly that whilst China remains a one-party state, with an ever-present and sophisticated regime of censorship, substantial social and political changes have taken place. It considers the ICT revolution in all its aspects, outlining the dominant trends, the impact on other countries of China as an ICT exporter, strategies of government censorship and use of ICT for propaganda, the implications of censorship for Chinese governance, the political implications of internet culture and blogging, and the role of domestic and foreign NGOs. Overall, this book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand a rapidly transforming China, both today and in the years to come.
Author : Fay Patel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 113632612X
The speed and cost effectiveness of new information technology has prompted many to view these innovations as a panacea for social and economic development. However, such a view flies in the face of continuing inequities in education, health, food, and infrastructure. This volume explores these issues – along with questions of access, privilege, literacy, training, and the environmental and health effects of information technologies in the developing world – arguing that a higher level of development does not always result from a higher level of technologization.
Author : Hugh F. Cline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317703219
This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it analyzes the applications of information communication technologies in relation to changes in norms and values, education institutions, the socialization of children, new forms of deviant and criminal behaviors, enhanced participation in religious activities, patterns of knowledge creation and use, the expansion of consumerism, and changing experiences of distance and time.
Author : P. T. H. Unwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 16,58 MB
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521712361
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Author : Jan Servaes
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 073919125X
This book sheds light on the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society by examining specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Columbia, Kenya, the Netherlands, and the United States.
Author : Ramesh Chandra
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,50 MB
Release : 2003-08
Category : Information resources
ISBN : 9788178352015
Many developing countries are in a good position to exploit the opportunities of the technology revolution and advance human development. The information and communication technologies provide new resources and material for expanding education. The net-based education can help access to lived experience, as well as dramatise and concretize basic historical facts and knowledge. In fact the second half of the twentieth century has witnessed the global phenomenon of an information explosion. The development of different electronic technologies has made it possible for millions of people to have fast access to huge information resources stored in different places on the planet, to communicate with each other and to handle information presented in several forms. Today computers and other electronic devices increasingly communicate and interact directly with other devices over a variety of networks such as the internet.
Author : Jarice Hanson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1135439532
This volume explores how a number of developing countries -- including India, Malaysia, Columbia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia -- are responding to the pressures of the information society. Infrastructural development, policies, and social systems are investigated, and models of information technologies and society are proposed in order to better reference the differences and similarities among the nations profiled. The authors identify the social technology perspective via the assimilation of technology in lifestyles and social systems. From this perspective, the diffusion of technologies is analyzed with a critical eye for theories of culture lag, diffusion and innovation, and technological determinism and liberalism. The social perspective is a new addition to development studies, and the reader may see how, as the global information society comes into focus, the social dimensions are more important than some theorists originally envisioned.