Prior research suggests that security and privacy needs of users in developing regions are
different than those in developed regions. To better understand the underlying differentiating …

Users share their personal devices with different entities in various circumstances. While
prior research shed light on the broad reasons behind the sharing of mobile phones, there is …

How do we study social media technology? While social semiotics provides an extensive
toolkit for analysing multimodal texts and semiotic practices, the study of social media as …

As the boundaries between technology and social media have decreased, the potential for
creative production or participatory practices have increased. However, the affordances of …

Efforts to design voice-based, social media platforms for low-literacy communities in
developing countries have not widened access to information in the ways intended. This …

This paper compares the mixed-methods evaluation findings of the ukuFUNda Virtual
School (UVS) with evaluations of three different mobile learning (m-learning) programmes in …

The study assesses and describes the interplay between public PC-based Internet access
and private mobile-based access for urban teenaged public access venue (PAV) users in …

This study focuses on teenage users of public internet access venues (PAVs) in low-income
neighborhoods of Cape Town. It documents their cultivation of detailed ICT repertoires to …

During the first decade of the 21st century, the rise of mobile feature phones in India saw the
development of both an economy of informal media exchange and a culture of active media …

Mobile phones figure prominently in discussions about international development and
poverty alleviation, but existing research is ambiguous about its ultimate effects. We report …