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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

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