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

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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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Burrell, Jenna, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012
Series:Acting with technology.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary: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 inclusion into a global network society.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780262301459
0262301458
1280498870
9781280498879
9786613594105
6613594105
0262300680
9780262300681
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.