ISBN:
9780748635214
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
International African Seminars
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Media and Identity in Africa
DDC:
302.23096
Keywords:
Mass media Political aspects
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media
;
Mass media ; Africa
;
Mass media ; Political aspects ; Africa
;
Mass media ; Social aspects ; Africa
;
Electronic books
;
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Abstract:
This book brings together discussions on the uses and problems of the media - both traditional and modern - in Africa, mostly Eastern Africa, in the current construction of national, class, gender, and individual identities in subject to new economic and political pressures and influences as part of the world-wide process of globalization.
Abstract:
Cover -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PROLOGUE -- PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY -- 1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA -- 2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA -- 3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW -- 4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR? -- 5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA'S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON -- 6 John Kiarie Wa'Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES -- 7 Eric Masinde Aseka MEDIA CONSUMERISM AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION -- 8 Macharia Munene AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN A HOSTILE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT -- PART II THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE GLOBAL MEDIA -- 9 Cecilia Kimani PUBLISHING IN AFRICA -- 10 Birgit Meyer PENTECOSTALISM AND MODERN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA -- 11 Kimani Njogu REKINDLING EFFICACY: STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH -- 12 Charles Ngome THE MEDIA IN EDUCATION -- 13 Ann Biersteker HORN OF AFRICA AND KENYA DIASPORA WEBSITES AS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES -- 14 John Collins POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND THE MEDIA -- 15 Abdalla Uba Adamu MEDIA PARENTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIA IDENTITIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIM HAUSA VIDEO FILMS -- PART III THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE LOCAL MEDIA -- 16 Heike Behrend 'TO MAKE STRANGE THINGS POSSIBLE': THE PHOTOMONTAGES OF THE BAKOR PHOTO STUDIO IN LAMU, KENYA -- 17 Kelly M. Askew MUSICAL IMAGES AND IMAGINATIONS: TANZANIAN MUSIC VIDEOS -- 18 Bantu Mwaura POLITICAL RIDICULE: MEDIATIZED NOTIONS OF 'TRANSPARENT CONCEALMENT' -- 19 Michelle Gilbert NAMES, CLOTH AND IDENTITY: A CASE FROM WEST AFRICA -- 20 Simiyu Wandibba MUSEUMS IN AFRICA -- 21 Walter Bgoya LITERARY PRIZES, BOOK PRIZES AND AFRICAN WRITING -- 22 Mbugua wa MungaiI NNOVATING 'ALTERNATIVE' IDENTITIES: NAIROBI MATATU CULTURE.
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