UID:
almahu_9949385486002882
Format:
1 online resource (172 pages) :
,
illustrations.
ISBN:
9781000570106
,
100057010X
,
9781003187424
,
1003187420
,
9781000570083
,
1000570088
Series Statement:
Materializing culture
Content:
"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. Focusing on the harbour town of Tema, it offers rich ethnographic portraits that cover topics such as nightlife, domestic architecture, religion, and social media. The volume demonstrates how transformations across Africa such as Pentecostal reformation, neo-liberal reforms and rapid digitisation all raise the need for privacy among middle-class urbanites who use brand new (and very traditional) strategies to uphold an image of their economic or religious state. Overall the book highlights how digital technologies intertwine with local cultures and histories, and how digital anthropology enhances our understanding of the offline as much as the online. It makes a valuable contribution to discourse about the right for privacy and surveillance in the digital age, and will be of interest to scholars from anthropology and African studies"--
Note:
Introduction: Studying privacy, digital anthropology, and Pentecostalism -- Method and reflection : a gay researcher undercover -- Setting the field : people, place, language and technology -- Treasures of darkness : nightlife & surveilance -- Hidden and incomplete : middle-class houses -- In a relationship with God : the discretness of social media -- Conclusions: Towards an ethnogarphy of privacy.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Elul, Elad Ben. Urban Ghana and privacy in the digital age Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9781032017334
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003187424
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003187424
