Internet Access in Nigeria: Mobile Phones, Issues, and Millennials.

This paper interrogates mobile phones in the context of online patronage and ease of Internet access in Nigeria and adopts an exploratory and sociological research design wherein data was collected qualitatively through interviews and focus group discussion and analysed descriptively using the inter...

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Publicado en:Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 10; no. 10; pp. 153 - 164
Autor principal: Kolawole, Mercy
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Journal of Pan African Studies Nov2017
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        affil: Postgraduate Student, Cultural and Media Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
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        Cell phones
        Internet access
        Sociological research
        Focus groups
        Millennials
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          Cell phones
          Internet access
          Sociological research
          Focus groups
          Millennials
          Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities
          Electronics Stores
          Electronic components, navigational and communications equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers
          Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing
          Wireless Telecommunications Carriers (except Satellite)
      ab: This paper interrogates mobile phones in the context of online patronage and ease of Internet access in Nigeria and adopts an exploratory and sociological research design wherein data was collected qualitatively through interviews and focus group discussion and analysed descriptively using the interpretive method based on findings that show that mobile phones are popularly portrayed as potent allies in the quest for democracy and development. Thus, the paper concludes that with the advancement in the technology, one would wonder why Internet access cannot be free or as cheap as it is in other parts of the developing world.
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