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Author Ems, Lindsay, author.

Title Virtually Amish : preserving community at the Internet's margins / Lindsay Ems
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource
Series Acting with Technology Ser
Acting with technology.
Contents Happiest in the margins : Amish approaches to participation in high-tech capitalism -- From the fence to the switch : configuring communication systems for sanctuary -- Explicit structure, communal decisions : setting sanctuary's bounds -- Where the "rules" end, informal approaches to behavior change begin -- Critical Amish makers -- Internet management : configuring the Amish Internet -- Holism and a preference for face-to-face communication -- Communicating strategically for Amish empowerment
Summary "Examination of how groups at the margins of the global economy-in this case, the Amish-use information and communication technologies"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Other Nonconformist and Evangelical Churches
Media studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Amish -- Indiana -- Customs and practices
Information technology -- Religious aspects -- Amish
Telephone -- Religious aspects -- Amish.
Internet -- Religious aspects -- Amish
Technological innovations -- Evaluation -- Case studies
Information technology -- Evaluation -- Case studies
Decision making -- Religious aspects -- Amish
Information society -- Indiana
Amish -- Indiana -- Economic conditions
Amish -- Indiana -- Interviews
Advertising & society.
Telephone -- Religious aspects -- Amish
Technological innovations -- Evaluation
Information technology -- Evaluation
Information society
Amish -- Economic conditions
Amish -- Customs and practices
Amish
Indiana
Genre/Form Case studies
Interviews
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780262369381
0262369389
9780262369398
0262369397