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The Internet in the Middle East
(October 2005)
Global Expectations and Local Imaginations in Kuwait
Deborah L. Wheeler - Author
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A surprising look at how the Internet does, and does not, affect public discourse and social practice in the Middle East and Kuwait in particular.
Providing one of the first ethnographies of the Internet revolution in the Arab world, The Internet in the Middle East analyzes the ways in which the Internet affects public discourse and social practice in Islamic society. With a special focus on Kuwait, Deb...(Read More) |
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Culture, Technology, Communication
(June 2001)
Towards an Intercultural Global Village
Charles Ess - Editor
Fay Sudweeks - With
Susan Herring - Foreword by
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Provides cross-cultural perspectives on computer-mediated communication.
Stability and success in our electronic global village increasingly depends on the complex interactions of culture, communication, and technology. This book offers both theoretical approaches and case studies of these interactions from diverse cultural domains, including Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United States. This global perspectiv...(Read More) |
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Electronic Discourse
(October 1997)
Linguistic Individuals in Virtual Space
Boyd H. Davis - Author
Jeutonne P. Brewer - Author
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Investigates the new world of computer conferencing and details how writers use language when their social interaction is exclusively enacted through text on screens.
This book examines interactive electronic discourse, exposing use of language that has the immediacy characteristic of speech and the permanence characteristic of writing. The authors created an asynchronous mainframe conference for language and linguistics classes in...(Read More) |
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Computer Networking and Scholarly Communication in the Twenty-First-Century University
(April 1996)
Teresa M. Harrison - Editor
Timothy Stephen - Editor
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This book explores the various ways in which computer networking, and more specifically the Internet, is changing the practices, the structure, and the products of academic scholarship. It considers research, teaching, and dissemination of knowledge across a range of disciplines in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences in order to identify particular uses of networking that will come to constitute the academic world of the future.
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Philosophical Perspectives on Computer-Mediated Communication
(February 1996)
Charles Ess - Edited and with an introduction by
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The rush to the Information Superhighway and the transition to an Information Age have enormous political, ethical, and religious consequences. The essays collected here develop both interdisciplinary and international perspectives on privacy, critical thinking and literacy, democratization, gender, religion, and the very nature of the revolution promised in cyberspace. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to better understand and...(Read More) |
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