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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Interpreting Technology in the Peripheries | |
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| Weak and Strong Materiality in Cultural Accounts | |
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| Reconceiving Users in Global Technology Studies | |
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| Youth and the Indeterminate Space of the Internet Caf� | |
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| Immobility in a Mobile Age | |
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| On Method and the Internet Cafe as a Space of Traveling Through | |
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| Youth in Urban Ghana | |
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| Peer Groups in the Internet Cafe | |
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| The Deterritorialization of the Internet Cafe | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Ghanaians Online and the Innovation of 419Scams | |
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| Breakdowns and Disillusionment in Online Cross-Cultural Encounters | |
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| The 419 Email Scam and Its Variants | |
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| Disembodiment and Gender Swapping as a Scam Strategy | |
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| Manipulating Representations of Africa for the Foreign Gaze | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Rumor and the Morality of the Internet | |
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| Rumors as Accounts | |
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| A Typology of Rumors about the Internet in Urban Ghana | |
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| Rumors and the Construction of a Moral Order | |
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| Orality in Contemporary Urban and Digital Domains | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Practical Metaphysics and the Efficacy of the Internet | |
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| A Brief History of Religious Movements in Ghana | |
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| The Internet and Technology in Church Sermons and Testimonials | |
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| Networking Christians and Christendom as a Network | |
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| Can Spiritual Entities Traverse Electronic Links? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Linking the Internet to Development at a World Summit | |
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| Arriving at the WSIS Regional Conference | |
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| Why Hold a World Summit on the Information Society? | |
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| Ventriloquism | |
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| Alliance Building | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Import of Secondhand Computers and the Dilemma of Electronic Waste | |
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| Strategies of Transnational Family Businesses in the Secondhand Electronics Trade | |
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| Electronic Waste Dumping and Further Dimensions of Marginality in Ghana | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Becoming Visible | |
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| The Rise of Sakawa | |
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| On the Neutrality of the Network | |
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| Materiality and Marginalization | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |