Working-Class Network Society
Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China
$103.76
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
19 September 2023
Summary
An examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China.
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, urbani…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262549318 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026254931X |
| Author: | Jack Linchuan Qiu, Manuel Castells, Carolyn Cartier |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 19 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
| Series: | Information Revolution and Global Politics |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
[A] fascinating picture of a hitherto almost unknown phenomenon.–Jens Damm, The China Journal–
Jack Linchuan Qiu
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 Fernandez-Ard vol, 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.
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