Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Non-media-centric Perspectives
Herausgeber: Helle-Valle, Jo; Storm-Mathisen, Ardis

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9781789206616
• ISBN-10: 1789206618
• Artikelnr.: 57701573

Autorenporträt

Ardis Storm-Mathisen is Research Professor at Consumption Research Norway and at the Faculty of Education, Oslo Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa:
Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes
Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Part I: Economy
Chapter 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and
the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia
Wendy Willems
Chapter 2. Botswana's Digital Revolution: What's in it?
Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle
Part II: Gender and Social Relations
Chapter 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search
for Change in Kinshasa
Katrien Pype
Chapter 4. Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth
Programme
Nanna Schneidermann
Chapter 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of
the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education
Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Part III: Localities and New Media
Chapter 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in
a Cape Town Suburb
Nanna Schneidermann
Chapter 7. 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
Index