11Oct

Read-Write-Erase: Mobile-mediated publics in South Africa’s 2009 elections

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TweetI’m presenting a paper today with Jonathan Donner about the role of mobile Internet in the SA 2009 elections, at the International Conference on Mobile Communication and Social Policy, at the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University. The conference has been a wonderful way to meet social scientists and humanities scholars studying mobile communication [...]

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07Oct

Who’s talking? South African social networking figures – access

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A graph showing the approximate number of users with access to mobile phones, desktop internet, and various social networks in relation to the size of the South African population.