Social Media and Politics in Africa

Democracy, Censorship and Security
Herausgeber: Dwyer, Maggie; Molony, Thomas

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates how social media is transforming political engagement in Africa using unique case studies from across the region.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 134mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781786994974
• ISBN-10: 1786994976
• Artikelnr.: 54616702

Autorenporträt

Maggie Dwyer is a Lecturer at the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. She also serves as an associate editor at the Journal of Modern African Studies. Her previous works include Soldiers in Revolt: Army Mutinies in Africa (2017). Thomas Molony is Director of the Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh. He has previously served as an international election observer for the European Union Election Observation Missions in Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi, as well as serving as a parliamentary adviser on ICT in developing countries. His previous works include Nyerere: The Early Years (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mapping the Study of Politics and Social Media Use in Africa - Maggie
Dwyer & Thomas Molony
2. 'Igu sawir gone too far'? Social media and state reconstruction in
Somalia - Peter Chonka
3. 'We are not just voters, we are citizens': Social Media, the #ThisFlag
Campaign, and Insurgent Citizenship in Zimbabwe - George Karekwaivanane &
Admire Mare
4. Social Media and Protest Movements in South Africa: #FeesMustFall and
#ZumaMustFall - Tanja Bosch
5. Enemy Collaborators: Social imaginaries, global frictions, and a gay
rights music video in Kenya - Brian Ekdale
6. Between Excitement and Scepticism: The Role of WhatsApp in Sierra
Leone's 2018 Elections - Maggie Dwyer, Jamie Hitchen, & Thomas Molony
7. Chaos and Comedy: Social Media, Activism, and Democracy in Senegal -
Emily Riley
8. Social Media and Elections in Nigeria: Digital Influence on Election
Observation, Campaigns, and Administration - Nkwachukwu Orji
9. From FM radio stations to Internet 2.0 overnight: information,
participation and social media in post-failed coup Burundi - Jean-Benoît
Falisse & Hugues Nkengurutse
10. Cybercrime and the policing of politics in Tanzania - Charlotte Cross
11. A familiar refrain: Political discourse and Facebook use in Mombasa,
Kenya - Stephanie Diepeveen
12. Inside the #OperationUsalamaWatch echo chamber: Twitter as site of
disruption or elite conversation? - Alisha Patel
13. From Whispers to the Assemblage: Surveillance in Post-Independence East
Africa - Denis Galava
Postscript: Research Trajectories in African Digital Spheres - Bruce
Mutsvairo & Kate Wright