TPCS 40: “I wanna go in the phone”. Illiteracy, informal learning processes , ‘voice’ and mobile phone appropriation in a South African township
By Fie Velghe Abstract The recent uptake of mobile phones has been especially remarkable in the developing world. For the first time in history the poorest of the poor can also take part in the telecommunication society. Mobile phone use is embedded in existing socio-economic realities which (re)shape technology as much as technology (re)shapes society….