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Internet and Online Media Usage on Mobile Phones among Low-Income Urban Youth in Cape Town
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kreutzer, Tino |
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Abstract | Mobile phones have long surpassed traditional landlines as the most common voice communication technology – particularly due to the marked growth in new mobile phone users in most so-called developing countries (Feldmann, 2003). In South Africa, a country still trying to escape its legacy of dramatic racial inequalities, mobiles have enjoyed spectacular growth over the past decade, with more than 60% of all South Africans above the age of 16 already owning a phone themselves (Research ICT Africa [RIA], 2009; All Media and Product Survey [AMPS], 2008). This rapid growth – up from just 18% in 2000 (International Telecommunications Union [ITU], 2001) – is at least partly due to the immense popularity of prepaid subscriptions and low-cost phones (Hodge, 2005; Esselaar & Stork, 2005), which have made it possible even for many of the country’s youth (most of whom remain in stark poverty) to own or use a phone themselves. But this growth extended beyond the number of young people texting or calling each other: As |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://tinokreutzer.org/mobile/InternetOnlineMediaUsage(ICA).pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.tinokreutzer.org/mobile/InternetOnlineMediaUsage(ICA).pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
