| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 173 pages) : illustrations |
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Langaa & African Studies Centre |
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African Studies Centre research series.
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| Contents |
An excerpt from Married but available, a novel / Francis B. Nyamnjoh -- Mobile communications and new social spaces in Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis B. Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman -- Phoning anthropologists : the mobile phone's (re- )shaping of anthropological research / Lotte Pelckmans -- From the elitist to the commonality of voice communication : the history of the telephone in Buea, Cameroon / Walter Gam Nkwi -- The mobile phone, 'modernity' and change in Khartoum, Sudan / Inge Brinkman, Mirjam de Bruijn, Hisham Bilal -- Trading places in Tanzania : mobile and marginalisation at a time of travel-saving technologies / Thomas Molony -- Téléphonie mobile : l'appropriation du SMS par une "société de l'oralité" / Ludovic Kibora -- The healer and his phone : medicinal dynamics among the Kapsiki Higi of North Cameroon / Wouter van Beek -- The mobility of a mobile phone : examining 'Swahiliness' through an object's biography / Julia Pfaff -- Could connectivity replace mobility? : an analysis of Internet café use patterns in Accra, Ghana |
| Summary |
'We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutual shaping. Rich in theoretical innovation and empirical substantiation, it brings together reflections on developments around the mobile phone by scholars of six African countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Sudan and Tanzania) who explore the economic, social and cultural contexts in which the mobile phone is being adopted, adapted and harnessed by mobile Africa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cell phones -- Social aspects -- Africa
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Telecommunication.
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Telecommunications
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telecommunications.
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African history.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Cell phones -- Social aspects
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Telecommunication
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruijn, Mirjam de, 1962-
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Nyamnjoh, Francis B., 1961-
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Brinkman, Inge.
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| ISBN |
9956615056 |
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9789956615056 |
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9789956579143 |
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9956579149 |
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