Transnational times: Locality, globality and mobility in technology design and use

UbiComp'10 - Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 515-517

  Shklovski, Irina ^a   Lindtner, Silvia ^b   Vertesi, Janet ^b,c   Dourish, Paul ^b  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

design; globalization; ict4d; mobility; transnationalism

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE;

DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GLOBALISATION; GLOBALITY; ICT4D; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; MOBILITY; TECHNOLOGY DESIGNS; TECHNOLOGY USE; TRANSNATIONALISM; UBIQUITOUS TECHNOLOGY;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 78650005677     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1864431.1864502     Document Type: Conference Paper

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