TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burrell,Jenna
TI  - Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana 
T2  - Acting with technology
SN  - 9780262301459
AV  - HQ799.2.I5 B87 2012eb
U1  - 004.67/8083509667 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Internet and teenagers
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Cybercafes
KW  - Technology and youth
KW  - Online social networks
KW  - Internet et adolescents
KW  - Ghāna
KW  - Cybercafés
KW  - Technologie et jeunesse
KW  - Réseaux sociaux (Internet)
KW  - COMPUTERS
KW  - Networking
KW  - Intranets & Extranets
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Web
KW  - General
KW  - Social Aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/General
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - gtlm
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. Youth and the indeterminate space of the Internet cafe -- 3. Ghanaians online and the innovation of 419 scams -- 5. Rumor and the morality of the Internet -- 5. Practical metaphysics and the efficacy of the Internet -- 6. Linking the Internet to development at the world summit -- 7. The import of secondhand computers and the dilemma of electronic waste -- 8. Becoming visible
N2  - 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
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