Acknowledgements
Contents
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1. Introduction
2. Keeping the faith in enduring economic and political hardship
3. Private and public information and communication
4. Economic and techno-social basis of mobile phone use
5. Sociality and the mobile phone as connector and liar
6. Civic (dis)engagement and protest
7. The imaginary of ICT4D and civic (dis)engagement
8. Conclusions: Political silence and new ICTs in a repressive state
References
Appendix 1. Graphs mobile communication logs
Appendix 2. Questionnaire mobile communication logs
Index