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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
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Across Africa, digital media are providing scholars with a reason
and opportunity for revisiting the question, and the analytical
lens, of publics with new vigour and less normative baggage. This
book brings together a rich set of empirically grounded analyses of
the diverse digital spaces and networks of communication springing
up across the Eastern African region. The contributions offer a
plural set of reflections on whether and how we can usefully think
about these spaces and networks as convening publics, where
citizens come together to discuss matters of common interest. The
authors make clear the need to unshackle such studies from slavish
acceptance of outsiders’ prescriptions on what constitutes
desirable publics. They highlight the importance of being attentive
to rapidly changing everyday realities across Africa in which
people are coming together around the circulation of ideas in ways
that include digital means of communications. In so doing, the
contributions bring forward new ways of thinking about, through and
with publics, alongside other heritages in Africanist scholarship
that have continued salience. Looking outwards from the region,
such different perspectives on our digitally mediated world offer
theoretical novelty that advances how we think about the notion of
publics and their political significance. This book was originally
published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African
Studies.
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