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Jules-Rosette, Bennetta

Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa / Bennetta Jules-Rosette. - Reprint 2010 - 1 online resource (424 p.) : Num. figs. - Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 90 0066-5576 ; .

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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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9783110122213 9783110857238

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110857238 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computers and civilization.
Computers--Social aspects--Africa.
Informationstechnik.
Kenia.
Sozialer Wandel.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

LC Class. No.: QA76.9.C66 / J85 1990

Dewey Class. No.: 004.096 303.4834096