African media and the digital public sphere

Mudhai, Okoth Fred; Tettey, Wisdom J.; Banda, Fackson

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Title:	African media and the digital public sphere
Editors:	Mudhai, Okoth Fred Tettey, Wisdom J. Banda, Fackson
Year:	2009
Pages:	260
Language:	English
Series:	Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
City of publisher:	New York
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:	0230614868; 9780230614864
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	information technology Internet information dissemination democratization popular participation
Abstract:	This collective volume examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contents: Introduction: new media and democracy in Africa: a critical interjection / Fackson Banda, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Wisdom Tettey; Implications for Africa of E-Gov challenges for giants South Africa and Nigeria / Okoth Fred Mudhai; 'Misclick' on democracy: new media use by key political parties in Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential election / George Nyabuga and Okoth Fred Mudhai; Repression, propaganda and digital resistance: new media and democracy in Zimbabwe / Last Moyo; Democratic process, civic consciousness and the Internet in francophone Africa / Marie-Soleil Frère and Alain Kiyindou; Use of the internet by NGOs to promote government accountability: the case of Egypt / Khayrat Ayyad; ICTization beyond urban male elites: issues of gender equality and empowerment / Kutoma J. Wakunuma-Zojer and Patricia K. Litho; ICTs, youths and the politics of participation in rural Uganda / Carol Azungi Dralega; Transnationalism, the African diaspora and the deterritorialized politics of the Internet / Wisdom Tettey; Globalization from below? ICTs and democratic development in the project 'Indymedia Africa' / Fabian Frenzel and Sian Sullivan; New public spheres: The digital age and Big Brother / Keyan G. Tomaselli and Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli; Popular music, new media and the digital public sphere in Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria / George Ogola, Anne Schumann and Michael Olutayo Olatunji; News media use of ICTs amidst war, violence and political turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes / Marie-Soleil Frère; Conflict coverage in a digital age: challenges for African media / Rune Ottosen and Okoth Fred Mudhai. [ASC Leiden abstract]