Urban Ghana and Privacy in the Digital Age

This book explores privacy practices and the role of digital technologies in the lives of urban Ghanaians, considering how they use language, materiality and culture to maintain sharp boundaries between the private and public.

Autorentext

Elad Ben Elul is an anthropologist who lectures at Tel Aviv University and specializes in digital cultures and modern African studies.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Studying privacy, digital anthropology, and Pentecostalism 2. Method and reflection 3. Setting the field: people, place, language, and technology 4. Treasures of darkness: nightlife & surveilance 5. Hidden and incomplete: Middle-Class houses 6. In a relationship with God: the discretness of Social Media 7. Conclusions: towards an ethnography of privacy