TA42 – Internet Cafes in Ghana

Internet Café in Ghana

Jenna Burrell is Assistant Profesor at the School of Information in Berkley and recently wrote a book about Internet Cafes in Ghana. During her seven year on-and-off fieldwork, she focused on the interesting topic of spamming and internet scams from youth groups in these african internet cafesy.

In this interview we take a look at the klischees against african internet users and how they acted as a self full filling prophecies that lead to the widespread of internet scams in Ghana. The internet is not so global and egalitarian after all, if live in the wrong place.

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Referenzen:

• Jenna Burrell. 2012. Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Caf’s of Urban Ghana (Acting with Technology). MIT Press.
  this book on amazon
• Audio Recording from Jenna about her book
• Video from Jenna about her book
• Jenna’s blog
• Jenna on twitter @jennaburrell
• Jenna’s CV
• the blog All Africa 
• undersea cable map
• homepage for the book
• WP: Network Neutrality
• WP: Internet Fraud
• Ethnography Matters
• blogpost about Ethnography Matters on the school of information blog
• TA19 – African Hackerspaces interview with programmer from Ushahidi

UPDATE: a good explanation of the global distribution of internet access can one find in this comprehensive ARTE Video (german):