Media Practices and Changing African Socialities : : Non-media-centric Perspectives / / ed. by Jo Helle-Valle, Ardis Storm-Mathisen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Helle-Valle, Jo,; Hylland Eriksen, Thomas,; Pype, Katrien,; Schneidermann, Nanna,; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis,; Willems, Wendy,
• HerausgeberIn: Helle-Valle, Jo,; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Anthropology of Media ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction. A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes --; PART I. ECONOMY --; 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia --; 2. Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in It? --; PART II. GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS --; 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa --; 4. Texting Like a State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme --; 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education --; PART III. LOCALITIES AND NEW MEDIA --; 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb --; 7. From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village --; Afterword. The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206623; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206623?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jo Helle-Valle, Ardis Storm-Mathisen.

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.