Terminal Signs - Computers and Social Change in Africa

Frontmatter -- 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

Product details

• Authors: Bennetta Jules-Rosette
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1990
• EAN: 9783110122213
• ISBN: 978-3-11-012221-3
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 36 mm x 230 mm
• Weight: 880 g
• Illustrations: Num. figs.
• Series: Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics [AS]; Approaches to Semiotics; Approaches to Semiotics [AS]; ISSN
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics