ISBN:
9783319475844
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (142 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Langmia, Kehbuma Globalization and Cyberculture : An Afrocentric Perspective
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Communication
;
Communication
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Globalization and Cyberculture -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Traditional African and Western Modern Cultures -- Physical Reality of Communication -- Religion -- Folktales and Music -- Widowhood/Gender Rights/Polygamy -- Education -- Western Culture -- Virtual Reality of Communications -- Individualism Versus Communalism -- Religion -- Gender/Class -- 3 Cyberculture, Cybersubculture, and Africa -- Cyberculture -- Nonelectronic Culture -- Cybersubculture -- Cyberspace -- Imperialism/Neocolonialism in Africa -- 4 Road to Cyberculture in Tropical Africa -- Print Media -- Broadcast Media (Radio) -- Television -- Mobile Televisions -- 5 Requiem for In-Person Verbal/Nonverbal Communication -- Cyber Texting and Western Values -- Interpersonal Communication and Communal African Cultures -- Cry the Beloved Nonverbal Communication -- Language and Spacio-Temporal Communication -- Online Message Recall -- Anonymity/Hacking and Online In-Person Communication -- 6 New Media New Cultural Dependence -- New Wines in Unclean Bottles -- Dependency Theory and the Fate of Africa -- Adapting New Communication Technologies in Africa -- Digital Media Adaptations in Africa -- "Arab Spring" and Digital Technology -- Knowledge Transfer and Sharing -- Digitalization of Non-European Languages -- 7 Cyberculture and the Digital Divide -- Cyber Literacy -- Gender Cyber Divide -- Age Disparities -- Class and Cyberculture Divide -- Language and Digital Divide -- Digital and Electronic Communication Divide -- 8 Cyberculture and Identity -- Cyber Criminality -- Living with SIRI: Real World and Virtual World -- Cyberculture and Political Communication -- Anonymity, Privacy, and Trust -- 9 Cybernetic Psycho-Syndrome -- Technoculture and Cybernetics -- African Humanity and Western Transhumanity
Abstract:
Resisting Transhuman Digital Communication? -- Cybersubculture and Feminism -- 10 Cybersecurity, Cyberculture, and Africa -- Cyberculture, Subculture, and Security -- Governmental Initiatives -- African Union Convention on Cyber Security Agreement -- Article 26: National Cyber Security System -- Why Cybersecurity? -- Cybersecurity Challenges in Africa -- Telecenters and Cybersecurity -- 11 Cyberculture and E-health Communication in Africa -- Digital Know-how and E-health -- Traditional Medicine and E-health in Africa -- Challenges and Hope for e-Health Cybernetism -- Cultural Restrictions and E-health in Africa -- 12 Conclusion -- References -- Index
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4
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