ISBN:
1280498870
,
9781280498879
,
9780262301459
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 236 p)
,
ill
Series Statement:
Acting with technology
Series Statement:
Acting with Technology Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana
DDC:
004.67/8083509667
Keywords:
Cybercafes
;
Technology and youth
;
Online social networks
;
Internet and teenagers
;
Cybercafes ; Ghana
;
Internet and teenagers ; Ghana
;
Online social networks ; Ghana
;
Technology and youth ; Ghana
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Youth and the Indeterminate Space of the Internet Café -- 3 Ghanaians Online and the Innovation of 419 Scams -- 4 Rumor and the Morality of the Internet -- 5 Practical Metaphysics and the Efficacy of the Internet -- 6 Linking the Internet to Development at a World Summit -- 7 The Import of Secondhand Computers and the Dilemma of Electronic Waste -- 8 Becoming Visible -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Youth and the Indeterminate Space of the Internet Café""; ""3 Ghanaians Online and the Innovation of 419 Scams""; ""4 Rumor and the Morality of the Internet""; ""5 Practical Metaphysics and the Efficacy of the Internet""; ""6 Linking the Internet to Development at a World Summit""; ""7 The Import of Secondhand Computers and the Dilemma of Electronic Waste""; ""8 Becoming Visible""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-236) and index
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262017367.001.0001
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