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
Autor principal: Burrell, Jenna, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Technology and youth.
Online social networks.
Internet and teenagers.
Cybercafes.
COMPUTERS > Social Aspects > General.
COMPUTERS > Web > General.
COMPUTERS > Networking > Intranets & Extranets.
Reseaux sociaux (Internet) > Ghāna.
Technologie et jeunesse > Ghāna.
Cybercafes > Ghāna.
Internet et adolescents > Ghāna.
Online social networks > Ghana.
Technology and youth > Ghana.
Cybercafes > Ghana.
Internet and teenagers > Ghana.
Ghana.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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