Bibliograph

Invisible Users, Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell

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Invisible Users, Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana, Jenna Burrell

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Invisible Users

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

793520535

Responsibility statement

Jenna Burrell

Series statement

Acting with technology

Sub title

Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

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

Table Of 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

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