Invisible Users
Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
4 May 2012
Summary
An account of how young people in Ghana’s capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafes of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country’s elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties-activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The Internet, accessed on second-hand computers (castoffs from the United States a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262017367 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262017369 |
| Author: | Jenna Burrell |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 4 May 2012 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Acting with Technology |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
In this well-written and compelling book, Burrell deftly supports her conviction that future scholarship must recognize the inconsistencies inherent in the digital experiences of those who live in the margins of our global society.
—Practical MattersThis book is a fine, Africa-based contribution to theory in technology studies as well as an empirical achievement that should be of strong interest to the cultural studies community in general. Those of us who work on Africa, youth, new communications technology, or Ghana will be far from its only readers.
—Jo Ellen Fair, African Studies ReviewAbout The Author
Jenna Burrell
Jenna Burrell is Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.
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