Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana /

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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 inclus...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Burrell, Jenna, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Colección:Acting with technology.
Temas:
Internet and teenagers > Ghana.
Cybercafes > Ghana.
Technology and youth > Ghana.
Online social networks > Ghana.
Internet et adolescents > Ghāna.
Cybercafés > Ghāna.
Technologie et jeunesse > Ghāna.
Réseaux sociaux (Internet) > Ghāna.
COMPUTERS > Networking > Intranets & Extranets.
COMPUTERS > Web > General.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > General.
Cybercafes
Internet and teenagers
Online social networks
Technology and youth
Ghana
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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