Distributing Hip-hop in a South African town

Schoon, Alette

doi:10.1145/2998581.2998592

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“…In their view, possession requires ownership and control. Consider the participants in Schoon's study of hip hop artists in a South African township [29], and the ways in which they created and shared tracks using an online file-sharing service. Many kept detailed paper records of the URLs of the tracks they uploaded, highlighting how digital objects became valuable possessions.…”

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Make Yourself at Phone

Robinson

Pearson

Reitmaier

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present APPropriate-a novel mobile design to allow users to temporarily annex any Android device for their own use. APPropriate is a small, cheap storage pod, designed to be easily carried in a pocket or hidden within clothing. Its purpose is simple: to hold a copy of the local content an owner has on their mobile, liberating them from carrying a phone, or allowing them to use another device that provides advantages over their own. Picking up another device when carrying APPropriate transfers all pertinent content to the borrowed device (using local no-cost WiFi from the APPropriate device), transforming it to give the impression that they are using their own phone. While APPropriate is useful for a wide range of contexts, the design was envisaged through a co-design process with resource-constrained emergent users in three countries. Lab studies and a subsequent deployment on participants' own devices identified key benefits of the approach in these contexts, including for security, resource sharing, and privacy.

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Section: Interaction Perspectivesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Make Yourself at Phone

Robinson

Pearson

Reitmaier

et al. 2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Networked Micro-services: Empowering Local Micro-enterprises in a South African Township Through Community Wireless Networks

Iitumba,

Mthoko,

White

et al. 2024

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

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Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production

Schoon

Mabweazara

Bosch

et al. 2020

African Journalism Studies

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This introductory essay argues for a decolonial approach that privileges qualitative methods in ways that position African digital experiences as "epistemic sites" of knowledge production in their own right in digital media scholarship. In proffering this argument, we challenge and confront elements of the global knowledge system, which are driven by an implicit "civilising mission" in which methods and intellectual approaches drawn from the West are seen as sacrosanct, while approaches and concepts emerging from the Global South are deemed to have a lower ontological density in the hierarchical ordering of knowledge. We explore methodological questions that relate to the studies carried in this Special Issue and consider various strategies for aligning digital media scholarship with Southern epistemologies-whether these are found in the "epistemologies of everyday" popular culture or epistemologies emerging through the work of African activists and artists. Equally, we emphasise the value of methods that pay attention to issues of power and economic extraction to understand the very different roles of social media platforms in various African countries. The paper also considers how the precarious and contingent nature of infrastructure and African cities in general demands methods that pay attention to issues of digital materiality and infrastructure. Finally, we discuss Big Data methods and the need for African researchers to establish themselves more firmly in this space.

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Distributing Hip-hop in a South African town

Cited by 4 publications

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Make Yourself at Phone

Make Yourself at Phone

Networked Micro-services: Empowering Local Micro-enterprises in a South African Township Through Community Wireless Networks

Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production

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