Dot Com Mantra : Social Computing on the Central Himalayas

by Arora, Payal

• ISBN13: 9781409401087
• ISBN10: 1409401081
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317148326
• Copyright: 2010-01-09
• Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co
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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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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.