Exploring Technology and Social Space
Exploring Technology and Social Space
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
Cultural contradictions of the anytime, anywhere economy: reframing communication technology
Telematics and Informatics - Special issue: Electronic markets in post euphoric phase
Information Technologies and International Development
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (Information Revolution & Global Politics)
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
The Information Society
Problematic empowerment: West african internet scams as strategic misrepresentation
Information Technologies and International Development
The impact of mobile telephony on developing country micro-enterprise: A nigerian case study
Information Technologies and International Development
Creative cameraphone use in rural developing regions
MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
The mobile media actor-network in urban India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Hustling online: understanding consolidated facebook use in an informal settlement in Nairobi
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring the interplay between community media and mobile web in developing regions
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Marginality, aspiration and accessibility in ICTD
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
An ethnographic assessment of electronic cash transfers in Ghana's remote rural north
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies and Development: Notes - Volume 2
Enriching the distressing reality: social media use by chinese migrant workers
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
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In this paper we present results from an anthropological study of everyday mobile internet adoption among teenagers in a low-income urban setting. We attempt to use this study to explore how information about everyday ICT use may be relevant for development research even if it is largely dominated by entertainment uses. To understand how ICT tools are used, we need to study the spaces users inhabit, even if these spaces are dominated by mundane, non-instrumental and entertainment-driven needs. The key here is for ICTD discourse to situate insights from anthropological studies (such as this one) within an understanding of what drives a specific user population to adopt technologies in particular ways. Clearly there is a link between context and use, and understanding this may be invaluable for development research. Adopting a narrow development lens of technology use may miss the actual engagements and ingenious strategies marginal populations use to instate technologies into their everyday.