NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN GLOBAL SOCIETIES

NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN GLOBAL SOCIETIES

CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER	i
Part 1 Science, Technology, Culture, and the Body
Science and the Culture of Everyday Life in the Philippines Raul Pertierra	3
Technology Transfers of Chinese Universities: Is Mode 2 Sufficient for a Developing Country? Wei Hong	21
ICTs and the Human Body: A Social Representation Approach Alberta Contarello and Leopoldina Fortunati	51
Technological Development and Society: The Discourse on PGD in Germany Kerstin Wüstner	75
Part 2 New Media and Generations
Analysis of the Content of Newsgroup Messages: Methodological and Technical Issues Luca Giuliano	107
Practices in the Use of ICTs, Political Attitudes Among Youth, and the Italian Media System Leopoldina Fortunati and Raimondo Strassoldo	125
Teenagers and Mobile Phones in Malta: A Sociolinguistic Profile Lydia Sciriha	159
Mobile Phones, Aged Homes, and Family Relations in Hong Kong Preliminary Observations William Wai-lim Wong	179
Part 3 ICTs and Work
The Impact of Internet Use on Transnational Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chinese Immigrants to Canada Wenhong Chen	197
Mobile Phones and New Migrant Workers in a South China Village: An Initial Analysis of the Interplay between the “Social” and the “Technological” Wai-chi Chu and Shanhua Yang	221
The Use of Mobile Phones among Migrant Workers in Southern China Pui-lam Law and Yinni Peng	245
Sexuality as Public Spectacle: The Transformation of Sex Information and Service in the Age of the Internet Garland Liu and Joel Lau	259

BACK MATTER	289
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