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Media practices and changing African socialities : non-media-centric perspectives /

"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 - different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Helle-Valle, Jo (Editor ), Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2020.
Colección:Anthropology of media ; v. 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-media-centric Perspectives / Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen
  • Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia / Wendy Willems
  • Botswana's Digital Revolution: What's in it? / Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle
  • Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype
  • Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme / Nanna Schneidermann
  • New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections Through Education / Ardis Storm-Mathisen
  • The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb / Nanna Schneidermann
  • 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