ISBN:
9780415577939
,
9780415577946
,
9780203843260
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 288 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Internationalizing media studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
DDC:
302.23096
Keywords:
Democratization
;
Mass media Political aspects
Abstract:
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the d
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: Taking it to the streets; Part I The popular media sphere: Theoretical interventions; Chapter 1 De-Westernizing media theory to make room for African experience; Chapter 2 Revisiting cultural imperialism; Chapter 3 At the crossroads of the formal and popular: Convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe; Chapter 4 Theorizing popular community media for democracy and development; Chapter 5 Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Part II Popular media, politics and power: Engaging with democracy and developmentChapter 6 Popular music as journalism in Africa: Issues and contexts; Chapter 7 Street news: The role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana; Chapter 8 'If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten': Popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media; Chapter 9 Post-apartheid South African social movements on film; Part III Audiences, agency and media in everyday life; Chapter 10 The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11 (South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our livesChapter 12 Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa; Chapter 13 New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation; Part IV Identity and community between the local and the global; Chapter 14 Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim northern Nigerian films: From Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So . . .; Chapter 15 Local stories, global discussions: Websites, politics and identity in African contexts
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 16 Survival of 'radio culture' in a converged networked new media environmentChapter 17 Policing popular media in Africa; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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