دانلود کتاب Terminal Signs: Computers and Social Change in Africa

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Part I: Computers in an Alien Environment\nIntroduction\nChapter One The Symbolic and the Social: Computer Use in Two African Settings\nChapter Two Computer-Related Successes and Excuses: The Discourse of Confrontation\nChapter Three New Technicians of the Sacred: Technology, Belief Systems, and Social Control\nPart II: New Technologies, Work Organization, and the Administrative Revolution\nChapter Four The Last Train of the Twentieth Century: The Computer Revolution in Ivory Coast\nChapter Five Display, Domination, and Mastery: Computers in the Kenyan Setting\nChapter Six Socializing Workers into the New Mechanical Solidarity\nPart III: Simulating Postmodernity\nChapter Seven Indigenizing the Computer: Social and Interpretive Practices Surrounding New Technologies\nChapter Eight The Computer Contract: A Sociosemiotic Analysis of Computer Adoption\nChapter Nine Terminal Signs\nNotes\nGlossary\nReferences\nIndex