UID:
almafu_9958354812302883
Format:
1 online resource (440p.):
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Num. figs.
Edition:
Reprint 2010
ISBN:
9783110857238
Series Statement:
Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 90
Note:
Frontmatter --
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Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment --
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Introduction --
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Chapter One: The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings --
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Chapter Two: Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation --
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Chapter Three: New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control --
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Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution --
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Chapter Four: The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast --
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Chapter Five: Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting --
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Chapter Six: Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity --
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Part III: Simulating Postmodernity --
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Chapter Seven: Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies --
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Chapter Eight: The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption --
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Chapter Nine: Terminal Signs --
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Notes --
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Glossary --
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References --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-178804-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 978-3-11-012221-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
DOI:
10.1515/9783110857238
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857238
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110857238
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110857238
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