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Technology hype versus enduring uses: A longitudinal study of Internet use among early adopters in an African city

机译:技术炒作与持久使用:在非洲城市的早期采用者中对互联网使用的纵向研究

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This paper considers a set of early adopters of the Internet first encountered by the author in the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana. The analysis draws from long–term ethnographic research and paired interviews with key informants separated by a six–year interval to identify and explain different trajectories of changing use of the Internet over time. Changes in use followed one of three general patterns: (1) intensification, (2) reorientation, or (3) discontinuance. These changes were linked to the life circumstances of individual users, their immediate social context of use, as well as broader societal shifts in the perception of the Internet in Ghana. This article critiques an implicit theory of technology in society in socio–economic development work targeting low–income countries like Ghana by showing how assessments of technology’s efficacy by users are culturally shaped and prone to change over time.
机译:本文考虑了作者在加纳阿克拉的网吧中首次遇到的一组互联网早期采用者。该分析来自长期的民族志研究,并与关键信息提供者进行了成对的采访,每隔六年间隔一次,以识别和解释随着时间的推移互联网使用变化的不同轨迹。使用变化遵循以下三种常规模式之一:(1)强化,(2)重新定向或(3)停产。这些变化与个人用户的生活状况,其使用的直接社会背景以及加纳对互联网的广泛社会转变有关。本文通过展示针对用户对技术功效的评估在文化上是如何形成的,并随着时间的变化而变化,从而对针对加纳等低收入国家的社会经济发展工作中的社会隐性技术理论提出了批评。

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