ISBN:
1282532537
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9781282532533
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9780230621756
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xv, 260 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Series Statement:
Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
Parallel Title:
Print version African Media and the Digital Public Sphere
DDC:
306.2096/090511
Keywords:
Information technology Congresses Political aspects
;
Democracy Congresses
;
Information technology Congresses Social aspects
;
Information society Congresses
Abstract:
This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""1 Introduction: New Media and Democracy in Africa�A Critical Interjection""; ""2 Implications for Africa of E-Gov Challenges for Giants South Africa and Nigeria""; ""3 “Misclick� on Democracy: New Media Use by Key Political Parties in Kenya�s Disputed December 2007 Presidential Election""; ""4 Repression, Propaganda, and Digital Resistance: New Media and Democracy in Zimbabwe""; ""5 Democractic Process, Civic Consciousness, and the Internet in Francophone Africa""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6 Use of the Internet by NGOs to Promote Government Accountability: The Case of Egypt""""7 ICTization beyond Urban Male Elites: Issues of Gender Equality and Empowerment""; ""8 ICTs, Youths, and the Politics of Participation in Rural Uganda""; ""9 Transnationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Deterritorialized Politics of the Internet""; ""10 Globalization from below? ICTs and Democratic Development in the Project “Indymedia Africa�""; ""11 New Public Spheres: The Digital Age and Big Brother""
Description / Table of Contents:
""12 Popular Music, New Media, and the Digital Public Sphere in Kenya, C�te d�Ivoire, and Nigeria""""13 News Media Use of ICTs amidst War, Violence, and Political Turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes""; ""14 Conflict Coverage in a Digital Age: Challenges for African Media""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Z""
Note:
"Some of the chapters were presented as papers at a panel of the Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association conference at Coverntry University's Technology Center in January 2007. Others were presented at an academic seminar organized by the SAB LTD-UNESCO Chair of Media and Democracy, Prof. Fackson Banda, held on September 9, 2006"-- P.x
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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