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Author Jules-Rosette, Bennetta

Title Terminal Signs : Computers and Social Change in Africa
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (440 pages)
Series Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; v. 90
Approaches to Semiotics AS
Contents Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings -- Chapter Two Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation -- Chapter Three New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control -- Part II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution -- Chapter Four The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast -- Chapter Five Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting
Chapter Six Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity -- Part III: Simulating Postmodernity -- Chapter Seven Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies -- Chapter Eight The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption -- Chapter Nine Terminal Signs -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS]
Subject Computers -- Social aspects -- Africa
Computers and civilization.
Computers and civilization
Computers -- Social aspects
Africa
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110857238
3110857235