Working-Class Network Society : Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- I Networks Materialized -- 2 Internet Cafés -- 3 Going Wireless -- II The People of Have-Less -- 4 Migrants -- 5 Young and Old -- III A New Working Class in the Making -- 6 Places and Community -- 7 Life and Death -- 8 Reflections -- Afterword -- Methodological Appendix -- Internet Resources -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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Year of publication:	2009
Authors:	Qiu, Linchuan
Other Persons:	Cartier, Carolyn (contributor) ; Wilson, Ernest J. (contributor) ; Castells, Manuel (contributor)
Publisher:	Cambridge : MIT Press
Subject:	China \| Informationstechnik \| Information technology \| Wissensgesellschaft \| Knowledge society \| Sozialer Wandel \| Social change
Description of contents:	An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.

Extent:	1 online resource (321 pages)
Series:	Information Revolution and Global Politics Ser. Information revolution and global politics
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:	978-0-262-25507-3 ; 978-0-262-17006-2
Classification:	Neue elektronische Medien
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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