Rethinking ICT Adoption Theories in the Developing World
| Author | : Emmanuel Eilu |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 3031578805 |
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Rethinking ICT Adoption Theories in the Developing World
| Author | : Emmanuel Eilu |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2024-06-13 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 9783031578793 |
This book provides extended frameworks and models to help with the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) in developing countries. The book first discusses the extent to which conventional ICT theories can be rigid in nature, often unable to handle the constant advances in technology, and technology adoption, implementation, usage, and disposal, not to mention different needs and cost availability in developing countries. The authors go on to show how new and revised models, tested in many societies in developing countries, can solve this mismatch. The authors provide examples of successful ICT adoption in developing country settings, in the areas of agriculture, culture, forestry, education, economics, health, and governance. The authors also show how techniques from persuasive design, philosophical designs, and motivational designs have been adjusted to facilitate successful ICT adoption, implementation, usage, and disposal in targeted regions.
Technology and Social Inclusion
| Author | : Mark Warschauer |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2004-09-17 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 0262303698 |
Much of the discussion about new technologies and social equality has focused on the oversimplified notion of a "digital divide." Technology and Social Inclusion moves beyond the limited view of haves and have-nots to analyze the different forms of access to information and communication technologies. Drawing on theory from political science, economics, sociology, psychology, communications, education, and linguistics, the book examines the ways in which differing access to technology contributes to social and economic stratification or inclusion. The book takes a global perspective, presenting case studies from developed and developing countries, including Brazil, China, Egypt, India, and the United States. A central premise is that, in today's society, the ability to access, adapt, and create knowledge using information and communication technologies is critical to social inclusion. This focus on social inclusion shifts the discussion of the "digital divide" from gaps to be overcome by providing equipment to social development challenges to be addressed through the effective integration of technology into communities, institutions, and societies. What is most important is not so much the physical availability of computers and the Internet but rather people's ability to make use of those technologies to engage in meaningful social practices.
Rethinking Marginality in South Africa
| Author | : Crystal Powell |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 2014-07-17 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9956792519 |
What does it mean to be marginal? For residents of Cape Towns Langa Township, being considered marginal is subject to a host of social, physical and sometimes materialistic qualifications not least of which is owning a mobile phone. Through various presentations of unique aspects of township life revealed through ethnographic snapshots, this book reveals the complex realities of marginalization experienced by some residents in Langa Township, located in Cape Town, South Africa. Mobile phones have been embraced and accommodated by both local South Africans and African immigrant residents living and working in Langa. Among other things, the technology has become a way of challenging (real and imagined) marginalities within the township in particular and South Africa in general. The book provides empirical data on the role of technology in regards to migration and notions of belonging; specifically the ways that technology has mitigated distance for residents, provided opportunities for development, facilitated the negotiation of various marginalities, and offered new ways of belonging for Langa residents.
Rethinking Imperialism
| Author | : Ray Kiely |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2010-04-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137088702 |
Imperialism has become a key focus of debate about world politics in the post-9/11 world. This major new text provides a systematic reappraisal of the evolution of the phenomenon and the concept from the 19th century as the basis for a reassessment of Globalization and US hegemony in the world today.
Media Technologies
| Author | : Tarleton Gillespie |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2014-01-24 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0262525372 |
Scholars from communication and media studies join those from science and technology studies to examine media technologies as complex, sociomaterial phenomena. In recent years, scholarship around media technologies has finally shed the assumption that these technologies are separate from and powerfully determining of social life, looking at them instead as produced by and embedded in distinct social, cultural, and political practices. Communication and media scholars have increasingly taken theoretical perspectives originating in science and technology studies (STS), while some STS scholars interested in information technologies have linked their research to media studies inquiries into the symbolic dimensions of these tools. In this volume, scholars from both fields come together to advance this view of media technologies as complex sociomaterial phenomena. The contributors first address the relationship between materiality and mediation, considering such topics as the lived realities of network infrastructure. The contributors then highlight media technologies as always in motion, held together through the minute, unobserved work of many, including efforts to keep these technologies alive. Contributors Pablo J. Boczkowski, Geoffrey C. Bowker, Finn Brunton, Gabriella Coleman, Gregory J. Downey, Kirsten A. Foot, Tarleton Gillespie, Steven J. Jackson, Christopher M. Kelty, Leah A. Lievrouw, Sonia Livingstone, Ignacio Siles, Jonathan Sterne, Lucy Suchman, Fred Turner
Communication for Rural Innovation
| Author | : Cees Leeuwis |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2013-04-30 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118688015 |
This important book is the re-titled third edition of the extremely well received and widely used Agricultural Extension (van den Ban & Hawkins, 1988, 1996). Building on the previous editions, Communication for Rural Innovation maintains and adapts the insights and conceptual models of value today, while reflecting many new ideas, angles and modes of thinking concerning how agricultural extension is taught and carried through today. Since the previous edition of the book, the number and type of organisations that apply communicative strategies to foster change and development in agriculture and resource management has become much more varied and this book is aimed at those who use communication to facilitate change in agriculture and resource management. Communication for Rural Innovation is essential reading for process facilitators, communication division personnel, knowledge managers, training officers, consultants, policy makers, extension specialists and managers of agricultural extension or research organisations. The book can also be used as an advanced introduction into issues of communicative intervention at BSc or MSc level.
The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations
| Author | : Wanda J. Orlikowski |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-07-18 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9781021176851 |
The Role of Diffusion Processes in Fertility Change in Developing Countries
| Author | : National Research Council |
| Publisher | : National Academies Press |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 1999-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0309184622 |
This report summarizes presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Social Processes Underlying Fertility Change in Developing Countries, organized by the Committee on Population of the National Research Council (NRC) in Washington, D.C., January 29-30, 1998. Fourteen papers were presented at the workshop; they represented both theoretical and empirical perspectives and shed new light on the role that diffusion processes may play in fertility transition. These papers served as the basis for the discussion that is summarized in this report.
Beyond the Digital Divide
| Author | : Petr Lupač |
| Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2018-09-24 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1787565483 |
This book advances the understanding of the relationship between social inequality and Internet use by bringing forth a new, contextual approach. It encourages a rethinking of the information society theory, information policies, and the role of social science in the process of informatization.
