Invisible users: youth in the Internet cafes of urban Ghana
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-230) and index |
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| adam_text | Invisible Users
Youth in the Internet
Cafés
of Urban Ghana
Jenna Burrell
The urban youth frequenting the Internet
cafés
of
Accra. Ghana, who are decidedly not members
of their country s elite, use the Internet largely as a
way to orchestrate encounters across distance and
amass foreign ties—activities once limited to the
wealthy, university-educated classes. The Internet,
accessed on second-hand computers (castoffs
from the United States and Europe), has become
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
Burrell describes the material space of the
urban Internet
café
and the virtual space of push
and pull between young Ghanaians and the for¬
eigners they encounter online; the region s famous
rumors of big gains
that fuel them: the influential role of churches and
theories about how the supernatural operates
through the network: and development rhetoric
about digital technologies and the future viability
of African Internet
cafés
in the region.
Burrell, integrating concepts from science and
technology studies and African studies with em¬
pirical findings from her own field work in Ghana.
captures the interpretive flexibility of technology
by users in the margtns but also highlights how
their invisibility puts limits on their full inclusion
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
1
Introduction
1
Interpreting Technology in the Peripheries
6
Weak and Strong Materiality in Cultural Accounts
10
Reconceiving Users in Global Technology Studies
17
2
Youth and the Indeterminate Space of the Internet
Café
29
Immobility in a Mobile Age
29
On Method and the Internet
Café as a
Space of Traveling Through
32
Youth in Urban Ghana
39
Peer Groups in the Internet
Café
42
The Deterritorialization of the Internet
Café
47
Conclusion
51
3
Ghanaians Online and the Innovation of
419
Scams
55
Breakdowns and Disillusionment in Online Cross-Cultural Encounters
58
The
419
Email Scam and Its Variants
64
Disembodiment and Gender Swapping as a Scam Strategy
67
Manipulating Representations of Africa for the Foreign Gaze
73
Conclusion
78
4
Rumor and the Morality of the Internet
81
Rumors as Accounts
85
A Typology of Rumors about the Internet in Urban Ghana
88
Rumors and the Construction of a Moral Order
90
Orality in Contemporary Urban and Digital Domains
97
Conclusion
102
5
Practical Metaphysics and the Efficacy of the Internet
105
A Brief History of Religious Movements in Ghana
108
The Internet and Technology in Church Sermons and Testimonials
114
Networking Christians -and Christendom as a Network
117
viii Contents
Can Spiritual Entities Traverse Electronic Links?
121
Conclusion
128
6
Linking the Internet to Development at a World Summit
133
Arriving at the WSIS Regional Conference
136
Why Hold a World Summit on the Information Society?
140
Ventriloquism
147
Alliance Building
151
Conclusion
154
7
The Import of Secondhand Computers and the Dilemma of Electronic
Waste
159
Strategies of Transnational Family Businesses in the Secondhand Electronics
Trade
164
Electronic Waste Dumping and Further Dimensions of Marginality in Ghana
173
Conclusion
181
8
Becoming Visible
183
The Rise of Sakawa
185
On the Neutrality of the Network
191
Materiality and Marginalization
198
Notes
201
References
213
Index
231
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