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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Acting with Technology SeriesPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (249 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262301459
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Invisible UsersDDC classification:
  • 004.67/8083509667
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.
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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.

An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.

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