ISBN:
9781789206623
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
250 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Media 9
DDC:
303.4833
Abstract:
Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context. The contributions to this collection provide fresh ethnographic descriptions of how new media practices can affect socialities in significant but unpredictable ways.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes -- Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen -- Part I: Economy -- Chapter 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia -- Wendy Willems -- Chapter 2. Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in it? -- Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle -- Part II: Gender and Social Relations -- Chapter 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa -- Katrien Pype -- Chapter 4. Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme -- Nanna Schneidermann -- Chapter 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education -- Ardis Storm-Mathisen -- Part III: Localities and New Media -- Chapter 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb -- Nanna Schneidermann -- Chapter 7. From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village -- Jo Helle-Valle -- Afterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius -- Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Index --
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