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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Burrell, Jenna, 1978- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012.
Series:Acting with technology
Subjects:
Internet and teenagers > Ghana.
Cybercafes > Ghana.
Technology and youth > Ghana.
Online social networks > Ghana.
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
ISBN:9780262301459
0262301458
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262017367.001.0001