Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

by Jenna Burrell

An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.

The urban youth frequenting the Internet caf s 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017369
• ISBN13: 9780262017367
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher