Mobile Communication and Low Skilled Migrants Acculturation to - Cosmopolitan Singapor

Informationen zum Autor Rich Ling is Shaw Foundation Professor of Media Technology at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and adjunct at the University of Michigan. Klappentext This book is a socially situated exploration of South Asian migrants in Singapore that critically examines migrants' negotiations of cultural identity, power, and friendship networks in mediated mobile phone spaces. Zusammenfassung This book is a socially situated exploration of South Asian migrants in Singapore that critically examines migrants’ negotiations of cultural identity, power, and friendship networks in mediated mobile phone spaces. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Labor Migration and ICT Chapter 3. Social Science of Technology Appropriation and Impact Chapter 4. Acculturation and Mobile Communication Chapter 5. Methods Chapter 6. Mobile Phone Appropriation Chapter 7. Acculturation and Adaptation Chapter 8. Conclusion Appendixes References About the Author

Product details

• Authors: Rajiv George Aricat, Rajiv George Ling Aricat, Rich Ling, Ling Rich
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2018
• EAN: 9781498552509
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5250-9
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Singapore, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration