Media Practices and Changing African Socialities : : Non-media-centric Perspectives / / 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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anthropology of Media ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (250 p.) |
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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