Hyper-coordination via mobile phones in Norway
Perpetual contact
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
Innovative and Sustainable Mobile Learning in Africa
WMTE '06 Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technology in Education
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
Mobile phones and economic development: Evidence from the fishing industry in india
Information Technologies and International Development
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
The Information Society
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media
Mobile learning with cellphones and PocketPCs
ICWL'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Advances in Web-Based Learning
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The uptake of mobile phones has been especially remarkable in the developing world. For the first time in history people at the bottom of the income pyramid can also take part in the telecommunication society. Mobile phones can play a unique role in reaching those who are outside the scope of formal or institutionalized schooling and open doors to out-of-school learning practices. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Wesbank, an impoverished community in Cape Town, we look at the (informal) learning practices "illiterate" and "low literate" women engage in, in an attempt to gain voice in new communicative realities by learning how to be(come) cell phone literate and at the different levels of competence this informal learning generates. The mobile phone has become a learning tool, nourishing learning practices in emerging "communities of practice" in which learning is a social activity in which anyone with any knowledge on mobile phones and mobile phone literacies becomes a potential tutor.