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Title New technologies in global societies / editors Pui-Lam Law, Leopoldina Fortunati, Shanhua Yang
Published Singapore ; Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2006
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Contents pt. 1. Science, technology, culture, and the body. 1. Science and the culture of everyday life in the Philippines / Raul Pertierra. 2. Technology transfers of Chinese universities: is mode 2 sufficient for a developing country? / Wei Hong. 3. ICTs and the human body: a social representation approach / Alberta Contarello and Leopoldina Fortunati. 4. Technological development and society: the discourse on PGD in Germany / Kerstin Wüstner -- pt. 2. New media and generations. 5. Analysis of the content of newsgroup messages: methodological and technical issues / Luca Giuliano. 6. Practices in the use of ICTs, political attitudes among youth, and the Italian media system / Leopoldina Fortunati and Raimondo Strassoldo. 7. Teenagers and mobile phones in Malta: a sociolinguistic profile / Lydia Sciriha. 8. Mobile phones, aged homes, and family relations in Hong Kong preliminary observations / William Wai-lim Wong -- pt. 3. ICTs and work. 9. The impact of internet use on transnational entrepreneurship: the case of Chinese immigrants to Canada / Wenhong Chen. 10. Mobile phones and new migrant workers in a South China village: an initial analysis of the interplay between the "social" and the "technological" / Wai-chi Chu and Shanhua Tang. 11. The use of mobile phones among migrant workers in Southern China / Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng. 12. Sexuality as public spectacle: the transformation of sex information and service in the age of the internet / Garland Liu and Joel Lau
Summary Technological advancements in the West since the last millennium have contributed to global modernity. Technologies set conditions for the closeness of the nation-states and for the affinity of the global and the local. They are also penetrating everyday life, and even sometimes the body, producing radical social changes. Yet, arguing that new technologies bring a new life and a promising future to global societies remains a questionable thesis. This book attempts to explore the relationship between new technologies and global societies, to gain an understanding of how the positive as well as
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Technological innovations.
Technology.
Globalization.
Technology
globalism.
Globalization
Technological innovations
Technology
Form Electronic book
Author Luo, Peilin
Fortunati, Leopoldina
Yang, Shanhua
ISBN 981277355X
9789812773555