Publics in Africa in a digital age
Publics in Africa in a digital age
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | viii, 216 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | 1. Introduction: Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age / Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane -- 2. From baraza to cyberbaraza: interrogating publics in the context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasse / Irene Brunotti -- ?3. Knowledge and legitimacy: the fragility of digital mobilisation in Sudan / Siri Lamoureaux and Timm Sureau -- 4. Tapanduka Zvamuchese: Facebook, unruly publics, and Zimbabwean politics / George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane -- 5. Social diary and news production: authorship and readership in social media during Kenyas 2007 elections / Inge Brinkman -- 6. Kuchu activism, queer sex-work and "lavender marriages," in Ugandas virtual LGBT safe(r) spaces / Austin Bryan -- 7. Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: entertainment websites and the creation of a digital youth public in post-genocide Rwanda / Andrea Mariko Grant -- 8. #Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenyas digital "practices" and "individuation" as a (non)political act / George Ogola -- 9. News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public / Peter Chonka -- 10. The limits of publicity: Facebook and transformations of a public realm in Mombasa, Kenya / Stephanie Diepeveen -- 11. WhatsApp as digital publics: the Nakuru Analysts and the evolution of participation in county governance in Kenya / Duncan Omanga -- ?12. A tale of two publics? Online politics in Ethiopias elections / Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau and Gerawork Aynekulu. - Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative baggage. This book brings together a rich set of empirically grounded analyses of the diverse digital spaces and networks of communication springing up across the Eastern African region.?The contributions offer a plural set of reflections on whether and how we can usefully think about these spaces and networks as convening publics, where citizens come together to discuss matters of common interest. The authors make clear the need to unshackle such studies from slavish acceptance of outsiders prescriptions on what constitutes desirable publics. They highlight the importance of being attentive to rapidly changing everyday realities across Africa in which people are coming together around the circulation of ideas in ways that include digital means of communications. In so doing, the contributions bring forward new ways of thinking about, through and with publics, alongside other heritages in Africanist scholarship that have continued salience. Looking outwards from the region, such different perspectives on our digitally mediated world offer theoretical novelty that advances how we think about the notion of publics and their political significance.
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| ISBN | 0367715260. - 9780367715267. - 9780367715274
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