New Technologies in Global Societies

Edited by Pui-Lam Law, Leopoldina Fortunati and Shanhua Yang

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Phone; Computer; Society (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9789812568120
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Science and the Culture of Everyday Life in the Philippines , pp 3-20

Raul Pertierra

Ch 2 Technology Transfers of Chinese Universities: Is Mode 2 Sufficient for a Developing Country? , pp 21-50

Wei Hong

Ch 3 ICTs and the Human Body: A Social Representation Approach , pp 51-74

Alberta Contarello and Leopoldina Fortunati

Ch 4 Technological Development and Society: The Discourse on PGD in Germany , pp 75-103

Kerstin Wüstner

Ch 5 Analysis of the Content of Newsgroup Messages: Methodological and Technical Issues , pp 107-124

Luca Giuliano

Ch 6 Practices in the Use of ICTs, Political Attitudes Among Youth, and the Italian Media System , pp 125-158

Leopoldina Fortunati and Raimondo Strassoldo

Ch 7 Teenagers and Mobile Phones in Malta: A Sociolinguistic Profile , pp 159-178

Lydia Sciriha

Ch 8 Mobile Phones, Aged Homes, and Family Relations in Hong Kong Preliminary Observations , pp 179-193

William Wai-lim Wong

Ch 9 The Impact of Internet Use on Transnational Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chinese Immigrants to Canada , pp 197-220

Wenhong Chen

Ch 10 Mobile Phones and New Migrant Workers in a South China Village: An Initial Analysis of the Interplay between the “Social” and the “Technological” , pp 221-244

Wai-chi Chu and Shanhua Yang

Ch 11 The Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Southern China , pp 245-258

Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng

Ch 12 Sexuality as Public Spectacle: The Transformation of Sex Information and Service in the Age of the Internet , pp 259-288

Garland Liu and Joel Lau

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