Living the information society in Asia / edited by Erwin Alampay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What would Durkheim have thought? Living in (and with) the information society / by Rich Ling -- What is a mobile phone relationship? / by Daniel Miller -- Technologies of transformation: the end of the social or the birth of the cyber network? / by Raul Pertierra -- Becoming mobile in contemporary urban China: how increasing ICT usage is reformulating the spatial dimension of sociability / by Jean-Franco̧is Doulet and Shang Dan -- Mobile religiosity in Indonesia: mobilized Islam, Islamized mobility and the potential of Islamic techno nationalism / by Bart A. Barendregt -- Moral panics and mobile phones: the cultural politics of new media modernity in India / by Gopalan Ravindran -- Stories from e-Bario / by John Tarawe and Roger W. Harris -- Life and death in the Chinese informational city: the challenges of working-class ICTs and the information have-less / by Jack Linchuan Qiu -- Institutional responses to GIS adoption for RPTA in local governments / by Jocelyn C. Cuaresma -- Customer acquisition among small and informal businesses in urban India: comparing face-to-face and mediated channels / by Jonathan Donner -- The view from the other side: the impact of business process outsourcing on the well-being and identity of Filipino call centre workers / by Ma. Regina M. Hechanova -- Empowering Thai homeworkers through ICTs / by Kamolrat Intaratat and Piyachat Lomchavakarn.