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Virtually Amish : preserving community at the Internet's margins / Lindsay Ems.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ems, Lindsay, author.
- Series:
- Acting with Technology
- Acting with technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Amish--Indiana--Customs and practices.
- Amish.
- Information technology--Religious aspects--Amish.
- Information technology.
- Telephone--Religious aspects--Amish.
- Telephone.
- Internet--Religious aspects--Amish.
- Internet.
- Technological innovations--Evaluation--Case studies.
- Technological innovations.
- Information technology--Evaluation--Case studies.
- Decision making--Religious aspects--Amish.
- Decision making.
- Information society--Indiana.
- Information society.
- Amish--Indiana--Economic conditions.
- Amish--Indiana--Interviews.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (162 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36939-7
- 0-262-36938-9
- OCLC:
- 1288010279
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access.
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