The Resource Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell
Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell
Resource Information
The item Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Waubonsee Community College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages)
- Contents
-
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Youth and the indeterminate space of the Internet cafe
- 3. Ghanaians online and the innovation of 419 scams
- 5. Rumor and the morality of the Internet
- 5. Practical metaphysics and the efficacy of the Internet
- 6. Linking the Internet to development at the world summit
- 7. The import of secondhand computers and the dilemma of electronic waste
- 8. Becoming visible
- Isbn
- 9780262301459
- Label
- Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
- Title
- Invisible Users
- Title remainder
- Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
- Statement of responsibility
- Jenna Burrell
- Subject
-
- COMPUTERS -- Web | General
- Cybercafes
- Cybercafes -- Ghana
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Ghana
- Internet and teenagers
- Internet and teenagers -- Ghana
- Online social networks
- Online social networks -- Ghana
- Technology and youth
- Technology and youth -- Ghana
- COMPUTERS -- Networking | Intranets & Extranets
- COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects | General
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This title provides an account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy. The book captures the flexibility of technology by users in the margins but also highlights how their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion into a global network society
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Burrell, Jenna
- Dewey number
- 004.67/8083509667
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HQ799.2.I5
- LC item number
- B87 2012eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Acting with technology
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Internet and teenagers
- Cybercafes
- Technology and youth
- Online social networks
- COMPUTERS
- COMPUTERS
- COMPUTERS
- Cybercafes
- Internet and teenagers
- Online social networks
- Technology and youth
- Ghana
- Electronic books
- Label
- Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Youth and the indeterminate space of the Internet cafe -- 3. Ghanaians online and the innovation of 419 scams -- 5. Rumor and the morality of the Internet -- 5. Practical metaphysics and the efficacy of the Internet -- 6. Linking the Internet to development at the world summit -- 7. The import of secondhand computers and the dilemma of electronic waste -- 8. Becoming visible
- Control code
- ocn793520535
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780262301459
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 22573/ctt58f46r
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o793520535
- (OCoLC)793520535
- Label
- Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Youth and the indeterminate space of the Internet cafe -- 3. Ghanaians online and the innovation of 419 scams -- 5. Rumor and the morality of the Internet -- 5. Practical metaphysics and the efficacy of the Internet -- 6. Linking the Internet to development at the world summit -- 7. The import of secondhand computers and the dilemma of electronic waste -- 8. Becoming visible
- Control code
- ocn793520535
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780262301459
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- illustrations.
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 22573/ctt58f46r
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) o793520535
- (OCoLC)793520535
Subject
- COMPUTERS -- Web | General
- Cybercafes
- Cybercafes -- Ghana
- Electronic books
- Electronic books
- Ghana
- Internet and teenagers
- Internet and teenagers -- Ghana
- Online social networks
- Online social networks -- Ghana
- Technology and youth
- Technology and youth -- Ghana
- COMPUTERS -- Networking | Intranets & Extranets
- COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects | General
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