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Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
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This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research, and categorizes studies along two dimensions.Abstract:
This paper reviews roughly 200 recent studies of mobile (cellular) phone use in the developing world, and identifies major concentrations of research. It categorizes studies along two dimensions. One dimension distinguishes studies of the determinants of mobile adoption from those that assess the impacts of mobile use, and from those focused on the interrelationships between mobile technologies and users. A secondary dimension identifies a subset of studies with a strong economic development perspective. The discussion considers the implications of the resulting review and typology for future research.read more
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Gender, Mobile, and Mobile Internet| Understanding the Darker Side of ICTs: Gender, Sexual Harassment, and Mobile Devices in Pakistan
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Fone band... Dukan band! (mobile phone close... shop close!) : design issues and preliminary findings from a study of ICTs and urban micro-enterprises in India
TL;DR: In this paper, a pilot study conducted as the first stage of a large-scale investigation of the links between ICT use in urban micro-enterprises and economic development is presented.
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Design And Implementation of Mobile Finance Application For Micro Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)
TL;DR: This study aims to design and build a software to help micro and small business in making financial statements using UML diagrams and MYSQL databases that is a combination of web-based and mobilebased.
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Living in a City, Living a Rural Life: Understanding Second Generation Mingongs’ Experiences with Technologies in China
TL;DR: A new type of “rurality” is found: second generation mingongs’ experiences with technologies differed from their urban-native peers in nearly every aspect, but exhibited similarities with their peers in rural areas.
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Locating the 17th Book of Giddens@@@The Constitution of Society: Outline of the Theory of Structuration.
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The rise of the network society
TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
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The Constitution of Society. Outline of the Theory of Structuration
TL;DR: Giddens as discussed by the authors has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade and outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form.