Dot com mantra : social computing in the Central Himalayas / by Payal Arora.

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Arora, Payal

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781409401087
1409401081
1317148320
9781317148326
1282743732
9781282743731
9786612743733
6612743735

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dot com mantra.DDC classification:

303.48/33095451 22

LOC classification:

HN690.A455 A76 2010eb

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Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Local as Celebrity; Social Learning with Computers; Methodology; Techno-Revelations for Development Policy and Practice; Organization of the Argument; 2 Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap; The Pathway to Good Intentions: The Development Story; New Technology and Social Change; Anthropology of the Artifact: Contexts -- Communities -- Conducts; Human Ingenuity, Technology and Development in India; Part I Almora; 3 This is India, Madam!; 4 New Technology, Old Practices

Part II Computers and Rural Development5 Goodbye to the Patwaris; 6 Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning; Part III Computing and Cybercafés; 7 Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas; 8 Let's Go Shopping!; 9 Leisure, Labor, Learning; 10 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Summary: 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

English.

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