Mobile phone appropriation in the favelas of rio de Janeiro, Brazil

New Media and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 411-426

  de Souza e Silva, Adriana ^a   Sutko, Daniel M ^b   Salis, Fernando A ^c   de Souza e Silva, Claudio ^c  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

access To technology; appropriation; digital divide; globalization; Infrastructure; low income communities; mobile phones; sharing; slums; theft

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957813358     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: 14617315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461444810393901     Document Type: Article

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