New Communication Technologies in Developing Countries (Routledge Communication Series) - Softcover

Hanson, Jarice; Narula, Uma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138977020 ISBN 13: 9781138977020

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This volume explores how a number of developing countries -- including India, Malaysia, Columbia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia -- are responding to the pressures of the information society. Infrastructural development, policies, and social systems are investigated, and models of information technologies and society are proposed in order to better reference the differences and similarities among the nations profiled. The authors identify the social technology perspective via the assimilation of technology in lifestyles and social systems. From this perspective, the diffusion of technologies is analyzed with a critical eye for theories of culture lag, diffusion and innovation, and technological determinism and liberalism. The social perspective is a new addition to development studies, and the reader may see how, as the global information society comes into focus, the social dimensions are more important than some theorists originally envisioned.

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About the Author

JARICE HANSON is Professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Verizon Chair in Telecommunications at the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University in Philadelphia. She is the author/editor of seventeen books.

Uma Narula is Research Officer at the Indian Institute of Mass Communica­tion.
 
W. Barnett Pearce chairs the Depart­ment of Communication Studies at the University of Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138977020
• ISBN 13: 9781138977020
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 180