TY  - BOOK
AU  - Helle-Valle,Jo
AU  - Hylland Eriksen,Thomas
AU  - Pype,Katrien
AU  - Schneidermann,Nanna
AU  - Storm-Mathisen,Ardis
AU  - Willems,Wendy
TI  - Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-media-centric Perspectives 
T2  - Anthropology of Media
SN  - 9781789206616
U1  - 303.4833096 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Media Studies, Anthropology (General), Development Studies
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789206623?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789206623
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789206623/original
ER  -