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Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age - An Ethnographic Exploration

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Studying privacy, digital anthropology, and Pentecostalism 2. Method and reflection 3. Setting the field: people, place, language, and technology 4. Treasures of darkness: nightlife & surveilance 5. Hidden and incomplete: Middle-Class houses 6. In a relationship with God: the discretness of Social Media 7. Conclusions: towards an ethnography of privacy

About the author

Elad Ben Elul is an anthropologist who lectures at Tel Aviv University and specializes in digital cultures and modern African studies.

Summary

This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public.

Product details

Authors Elad Ben Elul
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 29.01.2024
 
EAN 9781032034690
ISBN 978-1-0-3203469-0
No. of pages 172
Series Materializing Culture
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General

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