African media and the digital public sphere
By: edited by Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom Tettey, and Fackson Banda.
Contributors: Mudhai, Okoth Fred.; Tettey, Wisdom.; Banda, Fackson.
Series: Palgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York City, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230614864
Subjects: Information society -- Africa; Democracy -- Africa; Information technology -- Social aspects -- Africa; Information technology -- Political aspects -- Africa
Description: African Media and the Digital Public Sphere examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances through analyses of words and deeds of various political actors and organizations or institutions, from government units to political parties and party leaders to civil society organizations and minority groups. It is the first such publication contributed to by various African and Africanist scholars, based in Africa and around the world, whose research and/or practice activities focus on the relationship between new digital media and democracy on the continent.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : new media and democracy in Africa : a critical interjection / Fackson Banda, Wisdom Tettey and Okoth Fred Mudhai; title: Implications for Africa of E-Gov challenges for giants South Africa and Nigeria / Okoth Fred Mudhai; title: "Misclick" on democracy : new media use by key political parties in Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential election / George Nyabuga and Okoth Fred Mudhai; title: Repression, propaganda and digital resistance : new media and democracy in Zimbabwe / Last Moyo; title: Democractic process, civic consciousness and the Internet in francophone Africa / Marie-soleil Frere and Alain Kiyindou; title: Use of the internet by NGOs to promote government accountability : the case of Egypt / Khayrat Ayyad; title: ICTization beyond urban male elites : issues of gender equality and empowerment / Kutoma J. Wakunuma-Zojer and Patricia K. Litho; title: ICTs, youths and the politics of participation in rural Uganda / Carol Azungi Dralega; title: Transnationalism, the African diaspora and the deterritorialized politics of the Internet / Wisdom Tettey; title: Globalization from below? ICTs and democratic development in the project Indymedia Africa? / Fabian Frenzel and Sian Sullivan; title: New public spheres : The digital age and big brother / Keyan G. Tomaselli and Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli; title: Popular music, new media and the digital public sphere in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria / George Ogola, Anne Schumann and Michael Olatunji; title: News media use of ICTs amidst war, violence and political turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes / Marie-Soleil Frere; title: Conflict coverage in a digital age : challenges for African media / Rune Ottosen and Okoth Fred Mudhai.