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Urban Ghana and privacy in the digital age : an ethnographic exploration
- Title
- Urban Ghana and privacy in the digital age : an ethnographic exploration / Elad Ben Elul.
- Author
- Elul, Elad Ben
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 172 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm.
- 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. 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"--
- Series Statement
- Materializing culture
- Uniform Title
- Materializing culture.
- Subject
- Internet > Social aspects > Ghana
- Technology > Social aspects > Ghana
- Data privacy > Social aspects > Ghana
- Internet > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Technology > Religious aspects > Christianity
- Pentecostalism > Ghana
- Internet > Social aspects
- Manners and customs
- Pentecostalism
- Technology > Social aspects
- Ghana > Religious life and customs
- Ghana > Social life and customs
- Ghana
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 22-11071
- ISBN
- 9781032017334
- 1032017333
- LCCN
- 2021051964
- OCLC
- 1280275571
- Author
- Elul, Elad Ben, author.
- Title
- Urban Ghana and privacy in the digital age : an ethnographic exploration / Elad Ben Elul.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Materializing cultureMaterializing culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 22-11071