| Table of Contentes |
| Preface |
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Introduction
by Raul Pertierra |
Doing IT in developing societies: Varying contexts, similar epistemic practice
by Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu |
Understanding mobile phone design
by Leopoldina Fortunati |
Affected by the mobiles: Mobile phone culture, text messaging, and digital welfare service.
by Timo Kopomaa |
Managing banality in mobile multimedia
by Ilpo Koskinen |
The cellphone: Is it an urban phenomenon?
by Sakari Taipale |
Cellphones in the rural Philippines
by Itaru Nagasaka |
Cellphones and the social lives of migrant workers in southern China
by Partick Law and Yinni Peng |
Three technological paradoxes: Power manifestations of mobile phone usage among Malaysians on the run
by Reevany Bustami and Ellisha Nasruddn |
Vietnam and the Internet: A brief history
by Bui Hoai Son |
The transformative capacities of technology: Computer-mediated interactive communication in the Philippines- Promise of the present future
by Raul Pertierra |
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| The editor and the contributors |
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Book Description
This collection acknowledges what has now become an almost trite observation: the industrial age has been overtaken by the informational one and in the process old boundaries have either disappeared or become extremely porous. A world organized around sovereign nation-states, each one with its distinctive culture jealously guarded against foreign interlopers, is rapidly disappearing or continues to survive as nostalgia. Globalization sweeps aside everything before it or so it seems. But while the national is increasingly threatened, the local is reasserting its primacy. The new media of communication discussed in this collection makes possible the localization of the global as well as the globalization of the local.
This collection is the first attempt to discuss the new global media with Asia as its main focus. The biggest markets for theses technologies are in the emerging economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Japan and South Korea have surpassed most western counties in their deployment of the new technology. Information is the only major resource whose production, distribution, and consumption are notionally available everyone. |