Mapping the Web of Relations

Understanding Mobile Phone Appropriation among Produce Traders in Ghana

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5777425
AutoresRabiu K B Asante (0000-0003-2348-0791), Dan‐bright S Dzorgbo
Ano2018
Volume21
Fascículo1
Páginas24-40
Data de publicação2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGhana Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1536-5514 • E-ISSN: 2333-7168
EditoraUniversity of Wisconsin Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/ghs.2018.0002
OpenAlexW2904351949
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas13

The literature on mobile phones and market relations across Africa primarily emphasizes their role in facilitating agricultural trading. Proponents of this view highlight the support the mobile phone provides to farmers and buyers in obtaining market information relating to supply and demand dynamics. However, these studies tend to gloss over the factors underpinning the facilitatory role, which for all intents and purposes are reduced to an element of trust embedded in trading relations. Employing purposive and snowball sampling methods, 24 in-depth interviews and life histories were conducted and constructed. Drawing on personalized economic relations theory, this paper acknowledges these benefits, and further argues that "trust" is the main currency that drives these benefits rather than mere access to and usage of the mobile phone

Appropriation · Mobile phone · Snowball sampling · Underpinning · Digital Platforms and Economics · ICT Impact and Policies · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion