Living the Information Society in Asia / Edited by Erwin Alampay Alampay.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Alampay, Erwin, editor.

Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, issuing body.

International Development Research Centre (Canada), issuing body.

Conference Name:

Living the Information Society Conference (1st : 2007 : Manila, Philippines)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--Asia.

Information society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Undeniably, Asian societies are in a period of transition, when people are learning to live with new information and communication technologies (ICTs) - whether in commerce, government or development work. Living the Information Society in Asia describes the interaction of people and new ICTs as the technologies seep into everyday life, such as how mobile phones forge relationships among families separated by migration, how camera phones threaten personal space, how cultural identities are strengthened in call centres, and how religion is incorporated into the new communication technologies people use. Living the Information society in Asia looks at the phenomenon as it unfolds and raises the implications for policy and future research.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD / Elder, Laurent

PREFACE

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

CONTRIBUTORS

Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia / Alampay, Erwin

1. What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society / Ling, Rich

2. What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship? / Miller, Daniel

3. Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network? / Pertierra, Raul

4. Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability / Doulet, Jean-François / Dan, Shang

5. Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism / Barendregt, Bart A.

6. Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India / Ravindran, Gopalan

7. Stories from e-Bario / Tarawe, John / Harris, Roger W.

8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less / Qiu, Jack Linchuan

9. Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments / Cuaresma, Jocelyn C.

10. Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses 186 in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels / Donner, Jonathan

11. The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers / Hechanova, Ma. Regina M.

12. Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs / Intaratat, Kamolrat / Lomchavakarn, Piyachat

INDEX

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Co-published by: Institute of Southeast Asian studies.

ISBN:

9786612272691

9789814459259

9814459259

9781552504536

1552504530

9781282272699

1282272691

9789812309099

9812309098

OCLC:

549597107