Title Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana / Jenna Burrell.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Acting with technology
	Acting with technology.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Contents	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
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Subject	Internet and teenagers -- Ghana.
	Internet and teenagers.
	Ghana.
	Cybercafes -- Ghana.
	Cybercafes.
	Technology and youth -- Ghana.
	Technology and youth.
	Online social networks -- Ghana.
	Online social networks.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Burrell, Jenna, 1978- Invisible users. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2012 9780262017367 (DLC) 2011039761 (OCoLC)756044700
ISBN	9780262301459 (electronic book)
	0262301458 (electronic book)
	9780262017367
	0262017369

Title Invisible Users : Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana / Jenna Burrell.

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