Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China

by Jack Linchuan Qiu

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026217006X
• ISBN13: 9780262170062
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher