This research note investigates the socio-demographics of one aspect of the ‘digital divide’, namely computer use and attitudes...
Keywords: digital divide, marginality, computer attitudes, computer anxiety, gender, education
01/2005 | Communications, Walter de GruyterEducation has always been an institutional process across the globe with schooling as its central agent...
Keywords: education, literacy, field observations, South Assam, India, Same Language Subtitling
06/2006 | Semiotica, Walter de GruyterThe word ‘silhouette,’ we are told, ‘was satirically derived from the name of the parsimonious mid-eighteenth century French finance minister É tienne de Silhouette, whose hobby was the cutting of paper shadow portraits (the phrase à la Silhouette grew to mean ‘on the cheap’)’...
Keywords: semiotics, positivism, education, curriculum, meaning, law
04/2007 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter