出版社: The MIT Press
副标题: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
出版年: 2009-1-30
页数: 320
定价: USD 45.00
装帧: Hardcover
丛书: Information Revolution and Global Politics Series
ISBN: 9780262170062
内容简介 · · · · · ·
"Contrary to many Information Age pundits and prognosticators, the working class continues to exist; indeed, in contemporary China, it is being reinvented on a gigantic scale and in a new historical form. ICTs, as Jack Linchuan Qiu shows, constitute a vital and fascinating component of this crucial process. Those who assert that class realities have nothing to do with cellphone...
"Contrary to many Information Age pundits and prognosticators, the working class continues to exist; indeed, in contemporary China, it is being reinvented on a gigantic scale and in a new historical form. ICTs, as Jack Linchuan Qiu shows, constitute a vital and fascinating component of this crucial process. Those who assert that class realities have nothing to do with cellphones and Internet services—and vice versa—will have to think again."
—Dan Schiller, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana
"Jack Linchuan Qiu has written the most insightful, empirically grounded account to date of the social role that the Internet and related information and communication technologies have played in the course of China's rapid economic development. Anyone with an interest in the social and economic implications of the Internet in developing economies—whose citizens make up half of today's Internet users—should read this book."
—William H. Dutton, Director, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Product Description
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, laid-off workers, micro-entrepreneurs, retirees, youth, and others, increasingly connected by cybercafés, prepaid service, and used mobile phones. A process of class formation has begun that has important implications for working-class network society in China and beyond.
Qiu brings class back into the scholarly discussion, not as a secondary factor but as an essential dimension in our understanding of communication technology as it is shaped in the vast, industrializing society of China. Basing his analysis on his more than five years of empirical research conducted in twenty cities, Qiu examines technology and class, networked connectivity and public policy, in the context of massive urban reforms that affect the new working class disproportionately. The transformation of Chinese society, writes Qiu, is emblematic of the new technosocial reality emerging in much of the Global South.
Information Revolution and Global Politics series
作者简介 · · · · · ·
Jack Linchuan Qiu is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a coauthor (with Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, and Araba Sey) of Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006).
Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Techn...
Jack Linchuan Qiu is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a coauthor (with Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernández-Ardèvol, and Araba Sey) of Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006).
Manuel Castells is Professor of Communication and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California, as well as Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, Research Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, and Marvin and Joanne Grossman Distinguished Visiting Professor of Technology and Society at MIT. He is the author of, among other books, the three-volume work The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture.
目录 · · · · · ·
I Networks Materialized
2 Internet Cafés
3 Going Wireless
II The People of Have-Less
4 Migrants
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I Networks Materialized
2 Internet Cafés
3 Going Wireless
II The People of Have-Less
4 Migrants
5 Young and Old
III A New Working Class in the Making
6 Places and Community
7 Life and Death
8 Reflections
Afterword
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原文摘录 · · · · · ·
丛书信息
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读《信息时代的世界工厂:新工人阶级的网络社会》
审视网络社会:技术,阶层与传播
读来有种隔靴搔痒的感觉
新工人阶级的网络社会
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是一本像学术论文的的书,书中的数据图表真的很详实,作者在这方面下了很多功夫。但我有点读不下去,所以后面几章就只看了小结。记录一些吧 自古以来,传媒就是中国社会不平等结构的基石。四大发明都关乎信息技术:造纸术、印刷术不在话下,指南针是当年的地理信息系统,火药不... (展开)> 更多书评 6篇
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2 有用 其其实 2013-11-01 23:27:14
启发是:论文中一定要有数据分析(再简单的数据也可以拿来说一说);尽可能地多做访谈;不要怕naive的结论,事实有时候就是naive的。
1 有用 纪恩同学 2015-03-01 10:40:50
anu ebook
0 有用 Reed 2012-02-07 01:01:08
ICT与人文关怀
0 有用 惜知猫 2011-04-07 22:00:40
Jack V5!^-^
0 有用 攸川 2013-09-26 20:14:57
匆匆翻完,三星差一点。被压迫被损害的群体可以利用新的技术手段,形成新的身份、引发社会变革。作者显然想将技术手段与新工人阶级诞生联系起来。可是完全没有超出马克思说的资本主义是自己的掘墓人的逻辑啊,仅仅提供了一些老掉牙的例子。对于远景的判断,作者的态度左右摇摆,莫衷一是。
0 有用 Randomio 2023-06-26 11:49:01 日本
太记叙了,没啥理论和更高一层的abstraction
0 有用 El Niño 2021-12-01 23:44:29
写论文时偶然遇到这本书,交作业之后专门找了个了下午读完。本以为是冰冷的关于ICT的研究,结果却从ICT开始讲到工人阶级在社会中的各种处境……很难不感性对待,读到最后难过得心跳加快掉眼泪了… 这么多在困苦中奋斗的人,也许包括勇敢/“幸运”的作者在内。人类苦难对某些人来说是历史、是哲学、是文艺,但就不是生活的一部分;但对另一些人来说却是切切实实的、生活的主音、生命的全部。不知道不仁的是天地,还是时代,... 写论文时偶然遇到这本书,交作业之后专门找了个了下午读完。本以为是冰冷的关于ICT的研究,结果却从ICT开始讲到工人阶级在社会中的各种处境……很难不感性对待,读到最后难过得心跳加快掉眼泪了… 这么多在困苦中奋斗的人,也许包括勇敢/“幸运”的作者在内。人类苦难对某些人来说是历史、是哲学、是文艺,但就不是生活的一部分;但对另一些人来说却是切切实实的、生活的主音、生命的全部。不知道不仁的是天地,还是时代,还是时代中的人 (展开)
1 有用 纪恩同学 2015-03-01 10:40:50
anu ebook
0 有用 Pu Yan 2015-01-05 04:53:54
Overgeneralization and questionable combination of several social groups. Lack of in-depth and novel opinions.
2 有用 其其实 2013-11-01 23:27:14
启发是:论文中一定要有数据分析(再简单的数据也可以拿来说一说);尽可能地多做访谈;不要怕naive的结论,事实有时候就是naive的。