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"This book investigates the life, working conditions, and urban experiences of support-service workers, such as janitors, security guards, culinary workers and carpool drivers in the Information Technology (IT) sector of India. Largely omitted from academic discourse, support-service workers are crucial to the Indian IT industry. Drawing on interviews with such workers in seven Indian cities with a large concentration of software service companies, this volume: Uses quantitative and qualitative analyses to map and assess their responses to migration from rural occupations to a modern urban employment setting; Explores the everyday grind of migrant workers in the context of the homogenizing effects of globalization in an alienating urban environment, and discusses how their dislodgment from the structures of rural life -- gender and caste roles -- has placed them in a space of contestation between traditions, and the opportunities and challenges offered by digital society in the form of freedom, individualism, flexibility and innovation; Traces the evolution of new areas of class, and identity formations as well as the hegemonic relations within that ethos imposed by contractors and corporations. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of sociology and social anthropology, urban studies, development studies, labour studies, social exclusion, and South Asian studies"--
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"The industrialization of information resources has been a growing trend across the world in recent years, especially in China, where the information resource industry (IRI) has expanded exponentially for over more than a decade. While analysing the development conditions of China's IRI, this book clearly defines the implications and strategic value of the industry, summarizes basic IRI theories, and clarifies the history of its development and special regional characteristics within the Chinese context. Drawing on the statistics and measurement of various economic indicators of IRI, the authors propose four stages of development: a germination period; an initial development period; a subsequent rapid development period; and lastly, a steady development period. At the same time, the book draws upon various theoretical models such as the "Dynamic Resource Triangle" model, the "Information Resource Industrial Symbiosis" model, the value chain model and the explanation model of information consumption in order to shed light on IRI's elements and the optimization of its management. In addition, the authors present the Information Resource Industry Development Index (IRIDI) to evaluate IRI's development in different provinces and cities across Mainland China and monitor its dynamics from the point of view of industrial value and the external environment. While the book lays a solid theoretical foundation for the growth of China's IRI, it will also give international readers a clear picture of China's emerging industries in the current era"--
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"Les GAFA sont nés avec le XXIe siècle et, en une vingtaine d'années seulement, ils ont révolutionné notre quotidien. Ils ont également changé les règles de l'économie et les équilibres en place, au point d'être parfois assimilés à de "nouveaux barbares". Entreprise installée ou start-up, comment réagir face à la menace permanente de disruption ? Ce livre met en lumière les 7 "super-pouvoirs" qui ont permis aux GAFA de s'imposer aussi rapidement, et qui tracent les contours du changement de modèle en cours : #1 Le client gratuit : tout le monde est client, même ceux qui ne payent pas. #2 La conception inversée : les problèmes comme source de création de valeur. #3 Le management pirate : un nouveau mode de gestion des talents. #4 L'entreprise magnétique : l'agrégation de portions de valeur. #5 L'entreprise temps-réel : l'adaptation instantanée. #6 L'entreprise infinie : la croissance à coût nul. #7 L'entreprise intime la personnalisation à grande échelle. Surtout, ces super-pouvoirs permettent d'agir. Chacun trouvera ainsi des exemples et des tactiques ayant prouvé leur efficacité dans l'art difficile de l'aïkido stratégique avec les GAFA. Car, pour jouer à armes égales avec eux, mieux vaut utiliser leurs forces à son propre profit. GAFAnomics est né pour aider les entreprises à penser comme des start-up : comprendre leurs facteurs-clés de succès et décrypter leurs modèles pour encourager les talents à innover. GAFAnomics, une collection pour explorer le monde qui vient... et y trouver sa place."
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This collection of interviews provides a fascinating insight into the thoughts and ideas of influential figures from the world of IT and computing, such as Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Donald Knuth, Linus Torvalds, Jimmy Wales and Steve Wozniak. It gives an excellent overview of important developments in this diverse field over recent years.
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The use of digital information and communication technologies would be the traces of a social acceptability of the exploitation of all data, in the context of negotiations of uses. This is the reason why the users present themselves actors and contributors of the hyperconnectivity. We would thus witness a new form of dissemination, inviting user experience and social innovations. It is thus the victory of subordination by negotiated renunciation; A new form of serving, no longer that of the 1980's, with the counters and other services, which have become uncontrolled services - excepted when the users are overcome by restrictive ergonomics, revealing too much the subordination device - which joins the prescription apparently without an injunction. The lure is at its height when users and broadcasters come together to produce the services and goods, composing the business model, until the very existence of the companies, in particular the pure players. Crowdsourcing becomes legitimate: consumers create the content, deliver the data, the basis of the service sold (in a painless way because free access most of the time, indirect financing), the providers make available and administer the service, networks , Interfaces (representing considerable costs), also reputation to attract the attention of other consumers or contributors. In these conditions, the environmental stakes are considerable, so we propose another way of considering them, not as they are dealt with - material and pollution - but according to the prism of the relational practices analyzed in this volume.
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