{"product_id":"dot-com-mantra-payal-arora-9781409401070","title":"Dot Com Mantra: Social Computing in the Central Himalayas","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Payal Arora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1409401073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781409401070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d","brand":"Payal Arora","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088168104191,"sku":"9781409401070","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fbea6ab8-1115-4d6d-8fa5-e21ae7132f6e.jpg?v=1769103434","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dot-com-mantra-payal-arora-9781409401070","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}