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100	1		_aQiu, Jack Linchuan, _d1973- _921433
245	1	0	_aWorking-class network society : _bcommunication technology and the information have-less in urban China / _cJack Linchuan Qiu.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bMIT Press, _cc2009.
264		2	_a[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : _bIEEE Xplore, _c[2009]
300			_a1 PDF (xvi, 303 pages) : _billustrations, maps.
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aelectronic _2isbdmedia
338			_aonline resource _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInformation revolution and global politics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-296) and index.
506	1		_aRestricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.
520			_aThe 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 cybercaf�s, 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.
530			_aAlso available in print.
538			_aMode of access: World Wide Web
550			_aMade available online by Ebrary.
588			_aDescription based on PDF viewed 12/23/2015.
650		0	_aDiffusion of innovations _zChina. _921434
650		0	_aInformation technology _zChina. _921435
650		0	_aTelecommunication _zChina. _921436
655		0	_aElectronic books. _93294
710	2		_aIEEE Xplore (Online Service), _edistributor. _921437
710	2		_aMIT Press, _epublisher. _921438
776	0	8	_iPrint version _z9780262170062
830		0	_aInformation revolution and global politics _921439
856	4	2	_3Abstract with links to resource _uhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/bkabstractplus.jsp?bkn=6267196
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