Evaluating shared access: Social equality and the circulation of mobile phones in rural Uganda

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 230-250

  Burrell, Jenna ^a  

^a UC Berkeley School of Information   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Communalism; Culture; Ethnography; Gender; Inequality; Mobile phones; Shared access; Uganda

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; COMMUNALISM; CULTURAL CONTEXT; CULTURE; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENDER; INEQUALITY; SHARED ACCESS; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; UGANDA;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 76149119759     PISSN: 10836101     EISSN: 10836101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01518.x     Document Type: Article

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