You may have interest in the work that Dr Dawn Nafus did on emerging markets and technology adoption, especially her Technology Metabolism Index. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/06/intel-anthropol/ Cheers, Sharon Sharon Greenfield Digital Ethnographer @SharonG On Oct 4, 2009, at 6:44 PM, Dan Perkel wrote:
While not on the subject of low-income people or home use, Yuri Takhtayev's recently completed dissertation on software development in Brazil might have some interesting present-day and historical information that would complement your study and point you in interesting directions. I think there is also an interesting take on inequality and reproduction at a global level that you might find thought-provoking. See: http://takhteyev.org/dissertation/
See especially Part II for historical material.
Regards,
Dan
Dan Perkel PhD Candidate School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media UC Berkeley http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/dperkel
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Jayr Pimentel <jayrpimentel@hotmail.com
wrote:
Dear all,
I am curretly studying how low-income people have been using computers at home (i.e. applications like internet browsers, e-mail, msn, skype, facebook, office package, twitter, dowloading, blogging etc) as an attempt to understand social inequalities reproduction and digital inclusion. I am currently investigating Brazil, where low-income people have now enough money to buy computers due to credit availability (I may shift my attention to India and China afterwards). I would appreciate if any of you send me any hints in terms of related bibliography I should not miss like books, articles, papers, etc. Any contacts you know they are currently working on the following areas: computer usage, inequalities, digital inclusion, computer and social interaction and computer versus other electronic devices (like mobile phones) are very welcome.
I am currently doing the ethnographic part of the project so I would be glad to share some initial findings with those colleagues interested in. Also, I can send my project's abstract and interview guides for those who may want to have a look at them.
Thanks in advance,
Jay Pimentel Masters - Department of Sociology University of Sao Paulo jayrpimentel@hotmail.com
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