TY - GEN
T1 - Facebook in the developing world
T2 - 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2014
AU - Wyche, Susan P.
AU - Lampe, Cliff
AU - Rangaswamy, Nimmi
AU - Peters, Anicia
AU - Monroy-Hernández, Andrés
AU - Antin, Judd
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The BBC, New York Times and other media channels are abuzz with reports about Mark Zuckerberg's desire to connect everyone on the planet through social media. Missing from these online articles are reports of the realities "bottom of the pyramid" users in developing countries encounter when trying to access Facebook. This panel brings together researchers who have studied use of the popular social media site in Kenya, Namibia, Zambia, India, Mexico and the United States to discuss the opportunities and challenges that accompany adding 4 billion new users to Facebook. Our primary goal is to provide the CSCW community with an understanding of obstacles, such as persistent poverty and lack of electricity, low-income users encounter when attempting to use the site. This knowledge will help CSCW researchers think more broadly and realistically about the contexts for which they are studying and designing collaborative systems.
AB - The BBC, New York Times and other media channels are abuzz with reports about Mark Zuckerberg's desire to connect everyone on the planet through social media. Missing from these online articles are reports of the realities "bottom of the pyramid" users in developing countries encounter when trying to access Facebook. This panel brings together researchers who have studied use of the popular social media site in Kenya, Namibia, Zambia, India, Mexico and the United States to discuss the opportunities and challenges that accompany adding 4 billion new users to Facebook. Our primary goal is to provide the CSCW community with an understanding of obstacles, such as persistent poverty and lack of electricity, low-income users encounter when attempting to use the site. This knowledge will help CSCW researchers think more broadly and realistically about the contexts for which they are studying and designing collaborative systems.
KW - Facebook
KW - ICTD and HCI4D
KW - Social media
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U2 - 10.1145/2556420.2556851
DO - 10.1145/2556420.2556851
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84898966386
SN - 9781450325417
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
SP - 121
EP - 124
BT - CSCW 2014 - Companion Publication of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 15 February 2014 through 19 February 2014
ER -