Jones, Gareth A. (2012) Book review: invisible users: youth in the internet cafés of urban Ghana. LSE Review of Books (19 Nov 2012) Blog Entry.
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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: | Website (Blog Entry) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 The Author |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | T Technology > T Technology (General) |
| Sets: | Departments > Geography and Environment Collections > LSE Review of Books |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Jun 2013 13:16 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/50606/ |
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