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The Information Have-Less: Inequality, Mobility, and Translocal Networks in Chinese Cities

Cartier, Carolyn ; Castells, Manuel ; Qiu, Jack Linchuan

Studies in comparative international development, 2005-06, Vol.40 (2), p.9-34 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York: Springer Nature B.V

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  • Título:
    The Information Have-Less: Inequality, Mobility, and Translocal Networks in Chinese Cities
  • Autor: Cartier, Carolyn ; Castells, Manuel ; Qiu, Jack Linchuan
  • Assuntos: China ; Geographic Mobility ; Industrial production ; Inequality ; Information Technology ; Migrant Workers ; Occupational mobility ; Peoples Republic of China ; Prepaid debit cards ; Rural-Urban migrants ; Social Inequality ; Social Networks ; Socioeconomic status ; Studies ; Technological aspects
  • É parte de: Studies in comparative international development, 2005-06, Vol.40 (2), p.9-34
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  • Descrição: The "information have-less" is a social, economic, and political category for millions of rural-to-urban migrants and laid-off workers who populate the vast gray zone of China's digital divide. Disengaged from institutions of agricultural and industrial production, the information have-less make use of such inexpensive ICT services as Internet cafes, prepaid phone cards, and Little Smart mobile phones. These low-end digital technologies are critical to enhancing labor mobility (both physical and social) and to the formation of "translocal networks." In this paper, we conduct a preliminary assessment of ICT usage in key city-regions in China and consider the consequences of translocal network formations for evolving information inequality in China. These networks raise key theoretical issues related to regionalism, mobility, and state-firm relationships that impinge on low-end service provision, and stratified patterns of information access and utilization within the have-less populations. We view translocal networks an important socio-economic asset of the information have-less and an arena for the articulation of labor mobility in China's industrialization process and latest wave of urbanization. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
  • Editor: New York: Springer Nature B.V
  • Idioma: Inglês
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