EPISODE · Jun 13, 2012 · 53 MIN
TA42 – Internet Cafes in Ghana
from Talking Anthropology · host Thomas Lohninger
Jenna Burrell is Assistant Profesor at the School of Information in Berkley and recently wrote a book about Internet Cafes in Ghana. During her seven year on-and-off fieldwork, she focused on the interesting topic of spamming and internet scams from youth groups in these african internet cafesy. In this interview we take a look at the […]
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Internet Café in Ghana Jenna Burrell is Assistant Profesor at the School of Information in Berkley and recently wrote a book about Internet Cafes in Ghana. During her seven year on-and-off fieldwork, she focused on the interesting topic of spamming and internet scams from youth groups in these african internet cafesy. In this interview we take a look at the klischees against african internet users and how they acted as a self full filling prophecies that lead to the widespread of internet scams in Ghana. The internet is not so global and egalitarian after all, if live in the wrong place. Referenzen: Jenna Burrell. 2012. Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Caf’s of Urban Ghana (Acting with Technology). MIT Press. this book on amazon Audio Recording from Jenna about her book Video from Jenna about her book Jenna’s blog Jenna on twitter @jennaburrell Jenna’s CV the blog All Africa undersea cable map homepage for the book WP: Network Neutrality WP: Internet Fraud Ethnography Matters blogpost about Ethnography Matters on the school of information blog TA19 – African Hackerspaces interview with programmer from Ushahidi UPDATE: a good explanation of the global distribution of internet access can one find in this comprehensive ARTE Video (german):
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