TY  - BOOK
A2  - Bruijn, Mirjam de
A2  - Brinkman, Inge
A2  - Nyamnjoh, Francis
T1  - Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
N2  - Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a 'better elsewhere', marginality means disconnection to obvious possibilities and the invisibility of the myriad connections that make life possible for the ordinarily sidestepped. This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the 'global shadows' of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa's mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded 'Mobile Africa revisited' research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Y1  - 2013
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60340
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-603403
SN  - 9956-728-76-4
PB  - Langaa Research & Publishing CIG
CY  - Mankon, Bamenda
ER  -