Working-Class Network Society Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

Name: Working-Class Network Society Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
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ISBN: 9780262170062

ISBN-10: 026217006X

ISBN-13: 9780262170062

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jack Linchuan Qiu, Carolyn Cartier, Manuel Castells

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The idea of the "digital divide," the great social division between information haves and have-nots, has dominated policy debates and scholarly analysis since the 1990s. In Working-Class Network Society,Jack Linchuan Qiu describes a more complex social and technological reality in a newly mobile, urbanizing China. Qiu argues that as inexpensive Internet and mobile phone services become available and are closely integrated with the everyday work and life of low-income communities, they provide a critical seedbed for the emergence of a new working class of "network labor" crucial to China's economic boom. Between the haves and have-nots, writes Qiu, are the information "have-less": migrants,…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/30/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Introduction



Networks Materialized



Internet Cafes



Going Wireless



The People of Have-Less



Migrants



Young and Old



A New Working Class in the Making



Places and Community



Life and Death



Reflections


Afterword by Carolyn Cartier


Methodological Appendix


Internet Resources


Notes


References


Index