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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Table of 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