Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa / by Bennetta Jules-Rosette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta.

Series:

Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

Approaches to semiotics ; 90

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers--Social aspects--Africa.

Computers.

Computers and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2010

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1990.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Terminal signs : computers and social change in Africa Approaches to Semiotics [AS]

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-394) and index.

ISBN:

9783110857238

3110857235

OCLC:

843205051