Cell phones in social transformation in Africa: insights from ongoing research in some African countries

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2012

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Nyamnjoh, Francis
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University of Cape Town

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Cell phones have proved to be as accommodating as they are accommodated by those who embrace them. They shape their users as much as they are tamed by their users. For anyone interested in gaining a wider perspective on the situatedness of mobiles in African contexts, the social appropriation of technology and new configurations of marginality.
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Africa
appropriation
cell phones
marginality
media studies
mobile phones
social anthropology
technology
transformation

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Nyamnjoh, F. 2012. Cell phones in social transformation in Africa: insights from ongoing research in some African countries [OER].University of Cape Town, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/4117

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