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Book review: invisible users: youth in the internet cafés of urban Ghana

Jones, Gareth A. ORCID: 0000-0001-9844-4547 (2012) Book review: invisible users: youth in the internet cafés of urban Ghana. LSE Review of Books (19 Nov 2012). Website.

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Abstract

The urban youth frequenting the internet cafes of Ghana use the internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and to amass foreign ties; activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The internet has become for these youths a means of enacting a more cosmopolitan self. In Invisible Users, Jenna Burrell offers a richly observed account of how these internet enthusiasts have adopted, and adapted to their own priorities, a technological system that was not designed with them in mind. Gareth A. Jones finds that the book provides a chance for us to think about lives being constructed in bytes and bits.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/
Additional Information: © 2012 The Author
Divisions: Geography & Environment
Subjects: T Technology > T Technology (General)
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2013 13:16
Last Modified: 11 Dec 2024 13:01
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50606

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