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Title
A second look at the mobile-only internet: job seekers in Khayelitsha, South Africa describe their first 6 months of mobile internet use |
Full text
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000686/ |
Date
2010 |
Author(s)
Gitau, Shikoh; Donner, Jonathan; Marsden, Gary |
Abstract
Using an ethnographic action research approach, the study explores the challenges, practices, and emergent framings of mobile-only Internet use in a resource-constrained setting. We trained eight women in a nongovernmental organization's collective in South Africa, none of whom had used a personal computer, how to access the Internet on mobile handsets they already owned. Six months after training, most continued to use the mobile Internet for a combination of utility, entertainment, and connection, but they had encountered barriers, including affordability and difficulty of use. Participants' assessments mingled aspirational and actual utility of the channel with and against a background of socioeconomic constraints. Discussion links the digital literacy perspective to the broader theoretical frameworks of domestication, adaptive structuration, and appropriation. |
Subject(s)
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION |
Type of publication
Conference Paper |
Format
pdf http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/archive/00000686/01/750-4510-1-PB.pdf |
Repository
Cape Town - CS Research Documents, University of Cape Town
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