02584nam0a22003253i 4500 113471 113471 IT\ICCU\UBO\4378212 http://id.sbn.it/bid/UBO4378212 20230411090607.0 ta 211019s2019 mau||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780674983786 0674983785 spa BJBSDDR eng HM 851 A769n 2019 302.23/1 23 Arora, Payal 9144 The next billion users : digital life beyond the West / Payal Arora Digital life beyond the West Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019 269 p. ; 22 cm The leisure divide -- Deviant by design -- Media bandits -- The virtuous poor -- Slumdog inspiration -- The poverty laboratory -- Privacy, paucity, and profit -- Forbidden love. "New-media pundits obsess over online privacy and security, cyberbullying, and revenge porn, but do these things really matter in most of the world? The Next Billion Users reveals that many assumptions about internet use in developing countries are wrong. After immersing herself in factory towns, slums, townships, and favelas, Payal Arora assesses real patterns of internet usage in India, China, South Africa, Brazil, and the Middle East. She finds Himalayan teens growing closer by sharing a single computer with common passwords and profiles. In China's gaming factories, the line between work and leisure disappears. In Riyadh, a group of young women organize a YouTube fashion show. Why do citizens of states with strict surveillance policies appear to care so little about their digital privacy? Why do Brazilians eschew geo-tagging on social media? What drives young Indians to friend 'foreign' strangers on Facebook and give 'missed calls' to people? The Next Billion Users answers these questions and many more. Through extensive fieldwork, Arora demonstrates that the global poor are far from virtuous utilitarians who mainly go online to study, find jobs, and obtain health information. She reveals habits of use bound to intrigue everyone from casual internet users to developers of global digital platforms to organizations seeking to reach the next billion internet users"--Provided by publisher. 10445 Usuarios de internet Países en desarrollo 1316 Internet Aspectos sociales Países en desarrollo 5589 Seguridad en computadores Países en desarrollo P/G P/G lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2019-10-21 0 HM 851 A769n 2019 00000140071 2019-10-21 00:00:00 1 2023-04-11 BK