<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>36</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Burrell, Jenna.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">User Agency in the Middle: Rumors and Reinvention of the Internet in Accra, Ghana</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cyber Fraud</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ghana</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Internet</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year></dates><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Ghana, this paper argues that through rumors about successful Internet scammers, the Internet is “collaboratively produced by Internet users in Accra as a tool for making ‘big gains’” (p.1). These rumors enable Internet users to justify their continued expenditure of time and limited resources on pursuing social and/or economic relationships online, despite the absence of any success on their part.

(by Araba Sey) </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Unpublished Draft</style></work-type><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cited with permission of author</style></notes></record></records></xml>
