Everyday mobile use in the developing world
The uptake of mobile telephony in the developing world has been remarkable. We track the research literature on the topic, and contribute to it when possible. We are currently exploring "mobile centric" internet use among low-income communities in urban South Africa.
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Publications
- Shikoh Gitau, Jonathan Donner, and Gary Marsden, “i-Internet? Intle” (beautiful): Exploring first time internet use via mobile phones in a South African women’s collective, 30 October 2009
- Marion Walton and Jonathan Donner, Read-Write-Erase: Mobile-mediated publics in South Africa’s 2009 elections, 9 October 2009
- Jonathan Donner and Shikoh Gitau, New paths: exploring mobile-centric internet use in South Africa, 21 May 2009
- Rich Ling and Jonathan Donner, Mobile Communication, Polity, May 2009
- Jonathan Donner, Blurring livelihoods and lives: The social uses of mobile phones and socioeconomic development, in Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 91-101, MIT Press, 2009
- Molly Steenson and Jonathan Donner, Beyond the personal and private: Modes of mobile phone sharing in urban India, in The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices, vol. 1, pp. 231-250, Transaction Publishers, 2009
- Jonathan Donner, Katrin Verclas, and Kentaro Toyama, Reflections on MobileActive08 and the M4D Landscape, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on M4D, December 2008
- Jonathan Donner, Shrinking fourth world? Mobiles, development, and inclusion, in Handbook of Mobile Communication Studies, pp. 29-42, MIT Press, 2008
- Jonathan Donner, Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature, in The Information Society, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 140-159, 2008
- Jonathan Donner and Camilo Tellez, Mobile banking and economic development: Linking adoption, impact, and use, in Asian Journal of Communication, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 318-332, 2008
