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Dot Com Mantra
by Payal Arora (Author),
Ashgate Publishing Company (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book 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
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781409401070
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Ashgate Publishing Company
Publishing Date 2010-09-28
Product Edition 1