ISBN:
9780815359548
,
9781351120395
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 236 pages
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Routledge contemporary Africa series
DDC:
302.231096
Keywords:
Digital media
;
Online social networks
;
Online journalism
;
African languages
;
Mass media and language
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Subsaharisches Afrika
;
Elektronische Medien
Abstract:
Introduction: Not to be left behind: African languages, media and the digital sphere -- Section A: Digital media, revitalisation and sustainability of African languages -- Access to information, skills and development in Africa: local knowledge in local language -- Section B: Audience, African language mass media and their adaptation to the digital sphere -- Alaroye, IsoLezwe and the adoption of digital technologies -- Okun Radio Online -- Grassroots media and social media adaptation: case study of Urhobo Today -- Defying "protocol": use of local languages among online newspaper readers in Zimbabwe -- Perceptions of and motivations for accessing Swahili online newspapers among students at the University of Dar es Salaam -- Section C: African languages in the social media -- Use of indigenous languages for social media communication: the Nigerian example -- Subaltern agency, social media and the indigenous African language question in Zimbabwe -- "Digital chieftaincy": social media, register and community policing in Kenya -- Section D: Contents, challenges and prospects of online African language media -- New technologies, indigenous language journalism practice and development discourse in Africa -- Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoru`ba ́example -- African language online mass media in Malawi
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