Gagliardone looks at the complexities which characterise the evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Ethiopia, and in Africa more widely. The result of over ten years of visits to Ethiopia, the book explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.
Gagliardone looks at the complexities which characterise the evolution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Ethiopia, and in Africa more widely. The result of over ten years of visits to Ethiopia, the book explores the relationship between politics, development and technological adoption for scholars of development studies, African studies and political science.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Iginio Gagliardone teaches Media and Communication at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and is Associate Research Fellow in New Media and Human Rights at the University of Oxford. He holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has spent years living and working in Africa, including for UNESCO. His research focusses on the relationship between new media, political change, and human development, and on the emergence of distinctive models of the information society in the Global South. He has extensively published in communication, development studies, and African studies journals, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, and Italian.
Inhaltsangabe
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Technopolitics, communication technologies and development 3. Avoiding politics: international and local discourses on ICTs 4. A quest for hegemony: the use of ICTs in support of the Ethiopian national project 5. Ethiopia's developmental and sovereign technopolitical regimes 6. Resisting alternative technopolitical regimes 7. ICT for development, human rights and the changing geopolitical order 8. Conclusion Bibliography.
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Technopolitics, communication technologies and development 3. Avoiding politics: international and local discourses on ICTs 4. A quest for hegemony: the use of ICTs in support of the Ethiopian national project 5. Ethiopia's developmental and sovereign technopolitical regimes 6. Resisting alternative technopolitical regimes 7. ICT for development, human rights and the changing geopolitical order 8. Conclusion Bibliography.
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