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Jules-Rosette, Bennetta,
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©1990
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Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa / Bennetta Jules-Rosette.
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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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Computers and civilization.
Computers Social aspects Africa.
Informationstechnik.
Kenia.
Sozialer Wandel.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh
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Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa /
Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ,
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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title Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa /
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title_alt 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
title_new Terminal Signs :
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series Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ,
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physical 1 online resource (424 p.) : Num. figs.
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contents 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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