The Social construction and usage of communication technologies : Asian and European experiences

The Social construction and usage of communication technologies : Asian and European experiences / Raul Pertierra, editor. - xxxiv, 228 pages : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references.

Doing IT in developing societies: varying contexts, similar epistemic practices : Understanding mobile phone design -- Affected by the mobiles: mobile phone culture, text messaging, and digital welfare services -- Managing banality in mobile multimedia -- The cellphone: is it an urban phenomenon? -- Cellphones in the rural Philippines -- Cellphones and the social lives of migrant workers in southern china -- Three technological paradoxes: power manifestations of mobile phone usage among Malaysians on the run -- Vietnam and the internet: a brief history -- The transformative capacities of technology: computer-mediated interactive communications in the Philippines-promises of the present future.

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Information technology--Social aspects
Telecommunication--Social aspects
Communication and technology



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