User Localization Strategies in the Face of Technological Breakdown Biometric in Ghana’s Elections

Dorpenyo’s unique perspective and robust analysis of the adoption and use of biometric in Ghana’s elections illustrates how users adapted this technology for their social, cultural, physical, and political contexts using linguistic, subversive, and user-heuristic localizations. This work, situated a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorpenyo, Isidore Kafui
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2020, 2020
Edition:1st ed. 2020
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Recovering the Lost Voices of Users in Localization
  • Chapter 2: Biometric Technology: the Savior of a Risky Electoral System
  • Chapter 3: Decolonial Methodology as a Framework for Localization and Social Justice Study in Resource-Mismanaged Context
  • Chapter 4: Stories of Users’ Experiences
  • Chapter 5: Linguistic Localization: Constructing Local/Global Knowledge of Biometric Technology
  • Chapter 6: User-heuristic experience localization
  • Chapter 7: Subversive localization
  • Chapter 8: You are not who you say you are: Discriminations inherent in biometric design
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: participatory user localization