Media practices and changing African socialities : non-media-centric perspectives
edited by Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | VIII, 242 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction. Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-media-centric Perspectives / Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen -- Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia / Wendy Willems -- Botswana's Digital Revolution: What's in it? / Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle -- Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype -- Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme / Nanna Schneidermann -- New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections Through Education / Ardis Storm-Mathisen -- The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb / Nanna Schneidermann -- 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. - "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 - 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"--
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| ISBN | 9781789206616
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