Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age an ethnographic exploration / Elad Ben Elul.
| Author/creator | Elul, Elad Ben |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Elul, Elad Ben. Urban Ghana and privacy in the digital age Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 9781032017334 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021051965 |
| ISBN | 9781000570106 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781003187424 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781000570083 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |