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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities : Non-media-centric Perspectives / ed. by Ardis Storm-Mathisen, Jo Helle-Valle.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Anthropology of Media ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789206616
  • 9781789206623
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.4833096 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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