Payal Arora

Dot Com Mantra

Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

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Produktbeschreibung

This ethnographic study of social computing in the Central Himalayas, India, investigates alternative social practices with new technologies and media amongst a population that is largely undocumented. The book offers fresh, critical perspectives on issues of free learning with computers, the range and role of actors as intermediaries of digital information, impact of direct versus indirect access on social computing, gender and technology and transnational consumption and production of knowledge.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781409401070
• ISBN-10: 1409401073
• Artikelnr.: 45007780

Autorenporträt

Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in International Media and Communication in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap;
Almora; Chapter 3 This is India, Madam!; Chapter 4 New Technology, Old
Practices; Computers and Rural Development; Chapter 5 Goodbye to the
Patwaris; Chapter 6 1A version of this material has been published as an
article in the British Journal of Educational Technology. I would like to
thank Colin Latchem, the Asia-Pacific Corresponding Editor of BJET for his
tireless effort in shaping this article. Also, I would like to thank David
Hawkridge for his insightful comments and the anonymous reviewers for their
feedback. I am much indebted to Sugata Mitra for challenging and engaging
me in this novel and important arena of informal learning; Computing and
Cybercafés; Chapter 7 1Some material from this chapter has been used to
produce a case study for educational technology and learning. This case
study has been published in S. Marshall and W. Kinuthia (eds) (2010), Cases
n places: Global cases in educational and performance technology.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing; Chapter 8 Let's Go Shopping!;
Chapter 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning; Chapter 10 Conclusion;