Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion

From ...My heart's in Accra Tue Feb 12 2013, 17:46:46

Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage in Ghana, the subject of her (excellent) book Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafes of Urban Ghana. Burrell is an ethnographer and sociologist, and her examination of Ghanaian internet [...]

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