Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas by Arora, Payal

Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409401070)

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Format: Hardcover
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Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas by Arora, Payal

Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

$200.00
Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas by Arora, Payal

Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
Description
Description
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Billions of dollars are being spent nationally and globally on providing computing access to digitally disadvantaged groups and cultures with an expectation that computers and the Internet can lead to higher socio-economic mobility. 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 for the most part undocumented. In doing so, this book offers fresh and critical perspectives in areas of contemporary debate: informal learning with computers, cyberleisure, gender access and empowerment, digital intermediaries, and glocalization of information and media.

Author: Payal Arora
ISBN-10: 1409401073
ISBN-13: 9781409401070
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 09/28/2010
Pages: 206
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Payal Arora
By Payal Arora
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Payal Arora is Assistant Professor in International Media and Communication in the Department of Media and Communication at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

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