| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 190 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Voices in development management
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Voices in development management.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Local as Celebrity -- Social Learning with Computers -- Methodology -- Techno-Revelations for Development Policy and Practice -- Organization of the Argument -- 2. Frogs to Princes: Taking the Leap -- The Pathway to Good Intentions: The Development Story -- New Technology and Social Change -- Anthropology of the Artifact: Contexts -- Communities -- Conducts -- Human Ingenuity, Technology and Development in India -- pt. I ALMORA -- 3. This is India, Madam! -- In Search of a Man-Eating Catfish -- Here Comes Sonia Gandhi! -- Swami Mafia -- In God We Trust, the Rest is All Cash: The Simple Villager? -- 4. New Technology, Old Practices -- It's All in the Family -- The Darling Child of Development: The Cellphone -- Cashing in on Technology -- Playing Low Key -- Chullah and the Pump: Gender and Technology -- pt. II COMPUTERS AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT -- 5. Goodbye to the Patwaris -- Peasant Revolutions of the Past and Present -- New Intermediaries in the Making -- E-Agriculture Solutions Coming to Town -- Kisan Sangattans -- Consensus, Contention and Circulation of Conversation -- Learning to Decide -- 6. Excavating Relics of an Educational Idea: The Romance of Free Learning -- Ethnographer as Archeologist -- Digging Up the Past -- School As You Go -- Private Distance from Public Education -- Playground Kiosk Democracy -- A Beautiful Idea -- pt. III COMPUTING AND CYBERCAFES -- 7. Copycats and Underdogs of the Himalayas -- Cybercafes as After-School Centers -- You Scratch My Back, I Scratch Yours -- Who's the Boss? -- The Perfect Thesis -- The "Epidemic" of Plagiarism -- 8. Let's Go Shopping! -- New Educational Consumers -- Shop Till You Drop -- Mona Lisa and Bathroom Tiles -- Are Finders Keepers? -- 9. Leisure, Labor, Learning -- Orkut Saves the Day -- Can The Poor Come Out to Play? -- The Tale of Two People -- The Blasphemy of Leisure -- 10. Conclusion. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects -- India -- Almora.
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Internet -- Social aspects. |
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India -- Almora. |
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Computer networks -- Social aspects -- India -- Almora.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects. |
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Computer literacy -- India -- Almora.
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Computer literacy. |
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Almora (India) -- Social conditions.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Arora, Payal. Dot com mantra. Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2010 9781409401070 (DLC) 2010017056 (OCoLC)613645322 |
| ISBN |
9781409401087 (electronic book) |
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1409401081 (electronic book) |
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9781409401070 |
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1409401073 |
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