Inventive infrastructures : an exploration of mobile phone 'repair' cultures in Kampala, Uganda

Communities of repair in Kampala salvage phones; they bring dead ones back to life and rework recycled ones to operate with unfamiliar networks. How do these communities of repair congeal around the mobile phone? How do they form and develop? How is 'repair' understood and negotiated? The...

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Main Author: Houston, Lara
Published: Lancaster University 2013
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.569486