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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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