Living the information society in Asia

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
PREFACE
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
Introduction: Perspectives of ICT Research in Asia
1. What Would Durkheim Have Thought? Living in (and with) the Information Society
2. What Is a Mobile Phone Relationship?
3. Technologies of Transformation: The End of the Social or the Birth of the Cyber Network?
4. Becoming Mobile in Contemporary Urban China: How Increasing ICT Usage Is Reformulating the Spatial Dimension of Sociability
5. Mobile Religiosity in Indonesia: Mobilized Islam, Islamized Mobility and the Potential of Islamic Techno Nationalism
6. Moral Panics and Mobile Phones: The Cultural Politics of New Media Modernity in India
7. Stories from e-Bario
8 Life and Death in the Chinese Informational City: The Challenges of Working-Class ICTs and the Information Have-less
9. Institutional Responses to GIS Adoption for RPTA in Local Governments
10. Customer Acquisition among Small and Informal Businesses 186 in Urban India: Comparing Face-to-Face and Mediated Channels
11. The View from the Other Side: The Impact of Business  Process Outsourcing on the Well-being and Identity of Filipino Call Centre Workers
12. Empowering Thai Homeworkers through ICTs
INDEX