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  • Mobile communication research in Asia: changing technological and intellectual geopolitics?

    • Authors: Jack Linchuan Qiu (2010)

  • This article reviews Asian mobile communication research since the mid-1990s. First, it identifies key research institutes and funding agencies, not only in Asia but also worldwide public (e.g., the Canadian IDRC) and private (e.g., Microsoft) organizations. It then summarizes the areas of research at micro, meso, and macro levels, including their main topics, methods, and findings, and debates that result from the interaction (and lack of it) among diverse scholarly traditions such as survey, policy analysis, ethnography, action research, and comparative studies. Young as it is, mobile communication research is now a most eclectic area of inquiry, reflecting both the diversity of A...
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  • Working-class ICTs, migrants, and empowerment in South China

    • Authors: Jack Linchuan Qiu (2008)

  • This article explores how and if working-class information and communication technologies (ICTs) lead to the empowerment of the information have-less. It examines the ways in which have-less migrants, an important segment of have-less users, adopt and appropriate working-class ICTs and the subsequent empowerment or disempowerment consequences of this process. By using a new data collection method called ‘survey group,’ this study provides a combination of quantitative and qualitative evidence, collected in 2002 and 2006 in urban South China through a participatory empowerment design. Findings from the study suggest that working-class ICTs have diffused widely among migrants and that m...