[Air-L] Computer usage by low-income people in emerging countries

[scott at scottmacleod.com]

I added Yuri's Ph.D. and reference to 
http://www.webnographers.org/index.php?title=Papers#Theses_.28Ph.D.s.2C_Mast 
ers.2C_etc..29 (Thanks, Yuri, for writing this :) 


Eszter Hargittai's Ph.D. (here, too) focuses on inequality, as well. 


There's a free Doctor of Education at Harvard beginning in 2010 (for 25 
admitted) which I've listed here under FREE DEGREE PROGRAMS at World 
University and School courses - 
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Courses 


Best,
Scott 


http://scottmacleod.com
http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/World_University 

 

Dan Perkel writes: 

> 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 at 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 at hotmail.com 
>>
>>
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