[Ict4devwg] LIVING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN ASIA

[Vern Weitzel]

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-137700-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

LIVING THE INFORMATION SOCIETY IN ASIA

Edited by Erwin Alampay

ISEAS/IDRC 2009
ISBN 978-981-230-873-3
e-ISBN 978-1-55250-453-6
276 pp.



Asian societies are in a period of transition, as people are learn to live with 
new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Whether at work, at home, 
at school, or at large, ICTs are having an impact on day-to-day lives.

How can mobile phones help to forge relationships within families that have been 
separated my migration? How do camera phones threaten personal space? How are 
cultural identities strengthened in call centres? How is religion being 
incorporated into the new ICTs? Living the Information Society in Asia describes 
the interaction of people and ICTs as these technologies seep into everyday 
life, and examines implications for policy and future research.

The book will appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate and senior 
undergraduate students in social sciences, development studies, and Asian 
studies; to professionals and practitioners in donor and development agencies; 
and to policy advisors and decision-makers in government, international 
development agencies, and civil society.

THE EDITOR

Erwin Alampay is Assistant Professor at the National College of Public 
Administration and Governance of the University of the Philippines. He is Senior 
Editor for the Electonic Journal on Information Systems for Developing Countries 
and cofounded the Philipppine ICT Research Network.

CONTENTS

Foreword – Laurent Elder
Preface
Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia – Erwin Alampay
1. What Would Durkheim Have Thought: Living in (and with) the Information 
Society – Rich Ling
2. What is a Mobile Phone Relationship? – Daniel Miller
3. Technologies of Transformation: the End of the Social or the Birth of the 
Cyber Network? – Raul Pertierra
4. Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage is 
Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability – Shang Dan and Fracois Doulet
5. Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the 
Potential of Islamic Techno-Nationalism – Bart Barendregt
6. Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity 
in India – Gopalan Ravindran
7. Stories from e-Bario – Roger Harris and John Tarawe
8. Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of 
Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-Less – Jack Linchuan Qui
9. Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments – Joyce 
Cuaresma
10. Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses in Urban India: 
Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels – Jonathan Donner
11. The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business Process Outsourcing on 
the Wellbeing and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers – Regina Hechanova
12. Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs – Kamolrat Intaratat and Piyachat 
Lomchavakarn
Index