Terminal Signs : : Computers and Social Change in Africa / / Bennetta Jules-Rosette.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (424 p.) :; Num. figs. |
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| Other title: | Frontmatter -- Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings -- Chapter Two: Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation -- Chapter Three: New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control -- Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution -- Chapter Four: The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast -- Chapter Five: Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting -- Chapter Six: Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity -- Part III: Simulating Postmodernity -- Chapter Seven: Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies -- Chapter Eight: The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption -- Chapter Nine: Terminal Signs -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9783110857238 9783110636895 |
| ISSN: | 0066-5576 ; |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9783110857238 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Bennetta Jules-Rosette. |