Jack Linchuan Qiu

Working-Class Network Society

Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780262549318
• ISBN-10: 026254931X
• Artikelnr.: 69013493

Autorenporträt

Jack Linchuan Qiu; foreword by Manuel Castells and Carolyn Cartier

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Manuel Castells ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Abbreviations xv
1 Introduction 1
I Networks Materialized 19
2 Internet Cafés 21
3 Going Wireless 51
II The People of Have-Less 83
4 Migrants 85
5 Young and Old 125
III A New Working Class in the Making 155
6 Places and Community 157
7 Life and Death 197
8 Reflections 231
Afterword by Carolyn Cartier 249
Methodological Appendix 253
Internet Resources 261
Notes 263
References 273
Index 297