Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia
- 1 What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society
- 2 What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship?
- 3 Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network?
- 4 Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability
- 5 Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism
- 6 Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India
- 7 Stories from e-Bario
- 8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less
- 9 Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments
- 10 Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels
- 11 The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers
- 12 Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia
- 1 What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society
- 2 What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship?
- 3 Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network?
- 4 Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability
- 5 Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism
- 6 Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India
- 7 Stories from e-Bario
- 8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less
- 9 Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments
- 10 Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels
- 11 The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers
- 12 Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs
- Index
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- Living the Information Society in Asia , pp. xiii - xviPublisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2009