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This book investigates the role of media and communication in
processes of democratization in different political and cultural
contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense
contest over the transformation of citizenship and the
reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts
are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where
traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks,
thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and
political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of
reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South
Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of
the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and
accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization
and manipulation.
This book investigates the role of media and communication in
processes of democratization in different political and cultural
contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense
contest over the transformation of citizenship and the
reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts
are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where
traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks,
thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and
political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of
reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South
Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of
the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and
accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization
and manipulation.
Countries emerging from violent conflict face difficult challenges
about what the role of media should be in political transitions,
particularly when attempting to build a new state and balance a
difficult legacy. Media, Conflict, and the State in Africa
discusses how ideas, institutions and interests have shaped media
systems in some of Africa's most complex state and nation-building
projects. This timely book comes at a turbulent moment in global
politics as waves of populist protests gain traction, and concerns
continue to grow about fake news, social media echo chambers, and
the increasing role of both traditional and new media in waging
wars or influencing elections. Focusing on comparative cases from a
historical perspective and the choices and ideas that informed the
approaches of some of Africa's leaders, including guerrilla
commanders Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia,
Nicole Stremlau offers a unique political insight into the
development of contemporary media systems in Africa.
This volume explores how societies are addressing challenging
questions about the relationship between expression, traditional
and societal values, and the transformations introduced by new
information communications technologies. It seeks to identify
alternative approaches to the role of speech and expression in the
organization of societies as well as efforts to shape the broader
global information society. How have different societies or
communities drawn on the ideas of philosophers, religious leaders
or politicians, both historical and contemporary, that addressed
questions of speech, government, order or freedoms and applied
them, with particular attention to applications in the digital age?
The essays include a wide variety of cultural and geographic
contexts to identify different modes of thinking. The goal is to
both unpack the 'normative' internet and free expression debate and
to deepen understanding about why certain internet policies and
models are being pursued in very different local or national
contexts as well as on a global level.
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