ICTs and Indian Social Change Diffusion, Poverty, Governance |
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| Editor:
| Saith, Ashwani
Vijayabaskar, M.
Gayathri, V. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7619-3612-1 |
| Publication Date: | May 2008 |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $142.00 |
Book Description:
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This book is the first of its kind in putting together the optimistic voices of techno-idealists, critical social science perspectives on technology and a range of empirical material on the impacts of ICTs on the lives of people via its diffusion in the urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance and the new kinds of social identities it has fostered in India.
This book is the first of its kind in putting together the optimistic voices of techno-idealists, critical social science perspectives on technology and a range of empirical material on the impacts of ICTs on the lives of people via its diffusion in the urban and rural spaces of work, consumption, e-governance and the new kinds of social identities it has fostered in India.