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This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media
development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field-both
researchers and practitioners-to reflect on how advocacy groups,
researchers, the international community and others can work to
ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and
development. But that mission faces considerable challenges. Media
development paradigms are still too frequently associated with
Western prejudices, or out of touch with the digital age. As we
move past Western blueprints and into an uncertain digital future,
what does media development mean? If we are to act meaningfully to
shape the future of our increasingly mediated societies, we must
answer this question.
This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media
development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field-both
researchers and practitioners-to reflect on how advocacy groups,
researchers, the international community and others can work to
ensure that media can continue to serve as a force of democracy and
development. But that mission faces considerable challenges. Media
development paradigms are still too frequently associated with
Western prejudices, or out of touch with the digital age. As we
move past Western blueprints and into an uncertain digital future,
what does media development mean? If we are to act meaningfully to
shape the future of our increasingly mediated societies, we must
answer this question.
Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what
implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by
unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and
authoritative perspectives, including both historical and
contemporary digital developments. It traces the evolving forms of
ownership of media and communications in specific African contexts,
showing how they interact with broader changes in and outside the
continent. The book also shows how Big Techs, such as Meta
(formerly known as Facebook), are involved in a scramble for
Africa's digital ecosystem and how their advance brings both
opportunities and concerns about ownership and control. The
chapters analyse evolving forms of ownership and their implications
on media concentration and democracy across Africa. The book offers
a nuanced account of how media ownership structures are in some
instances captured with an ever-growing and complex ecosystem that
also has new opportunities for public interest media. Offering a
significant representation of the trends and diversity of existing
media systems, the book goes beyond the postcolonial geographical
divisions of North and Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight common
patterns and significant similarities and differences of
communications ownerships between and within African countries. The
contributors expose media and communications ownership patterns in
Africa that are centralised and yet decentralising and in some
cases, battling, resurging and globalising.
This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on
African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a
cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field
within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of
African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds,
needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of
the marginality of African approaches in media and communication
studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit
needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship
and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of
Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological
interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this
book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally
interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose
new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are
constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media
policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with
increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the
interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant
consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement
in today's Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial
epistemologies relevant for locating African media and
communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read
for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism
scholars.
This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical
frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social
media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.
Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages
with the main drives behind the various appropriations of social
media for election campaigns, organization, and voter mobilization.
Contributors in this volume delve into changing and complex aspects
of social media, offering an appraisal of theoretical perspectives
and examining fascinating case studies which social media use is
redefining elections across Africa. Contributions show that new
media ecologies are resulting in new policy regimes, user
behaviors, and communication models that have implications for
electoral processes. The book also provides preliminary analysis of
emerging forms of algorithm-driven campaigns, fake news,
information distortions and other methods that undermine electoral
democracy in Africa.
This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and
opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media
within African politics. Electoral processes in Africa have assumed
new dimensions due to the influence of social media. As social
media permeates different aspects of elections, it is ostensibly
creating new challenges and opportunities. Most evident are the
challenges of hate speech, misogyny and incivility. This book
considers the impact of digital media before, during, and after
elections, as well as authorities' attempts to legislate and
regulate the internet in response. Contributions to this volume
analyse social media posts, transgressive images, newspaper
articles, and include case studies of Algeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda. This results in the delivery of
an original depiction of the use of social media in a variety of
African contexts. This book will appeal to academics and students
of media and communication studies, political studies, journalism,
sociology, and African studies.
This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on
African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a
cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field
within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of
African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds,
needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of
the marginality of African approaches in media and communication
studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit
needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship
and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of
Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological
interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this
book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally
interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose
new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are
constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media
policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with
increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the
interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant
consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement
in today's Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial
epistemologies relevant for locating African media and
communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read
for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism
scholars.
This book, the second of two volumes, explores the challenges and
opportunities presented by the increased presence of social media
within African politics. Electoral processes in Africa have assumed
new dimensions due to the influence of social media. As social
media permeates different aspects of elections, it is ostensibly
creating new challenges and opportunities. Most evident are the
challenges of hate speech, misogyny and incivility. This book
considers the impact of digital media before, during, and after
elections, as well as authorities' attempts to legislate and
regulate the internet in response. Contributions to this volume
analyse social media posts, transgressive images, newspaper
articles, and include case studies of Algeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya,
South Africa, Nigeria and Uganda. This results in the delivery of
an original depiction of the use of social media in a variety of
African contexts. This book will appeal to academics and students
of media and communication studies, political studies, journalism,
sociology, and African studies.
African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and
increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media
platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited
volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in
their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state
and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and
virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and
communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of
media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the
normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African
media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on
everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume
contributes to the broader project of provincializing and
decolonizing audience and internet studies.
African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and
increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media
platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited
volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in
their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state
and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and
virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and
communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of
media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the
normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African
media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on
everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume
contributes to the broader project of provincializing and
decolonizing audience and internet studies.
This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical
frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social
media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa.
Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages
with the main drives behind the various appropriations of social
media for election campaigns, organization, and voter mobilization.
Contributors in this volume delve into changing and complex aspects
of social media, offering an appraisal of theoretical perspectives
and examining fascinating case studies which social media use is
redefining elections across Africa. Contributions show that new
media ecologies are resulting in new policy regimes, user
behaviors, and communication models that have implications for
electoral processes. The book also provides preliminary analysis of
emerging forms of algorithm-driven campaigns, fake news,
information distortions and other methods that undermine electoral
democracy in Africa.
In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in
serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have
cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and
meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa
sets about rethinking the role of media and communication in
perpetuating, reinforcing and reining in racism, absolute ethnicity
and other discriminations across Africa. It goes beyond the
customary discussion of media racism and ethnic stereotyping to
critically address broader issues of identity, belonging and
exclusion. Topics covered include racism in South African
newspapers, pluralist media debates in Kenya, media discourses on
same-sex relations in Uganda and ethnicised news coverage in
Nigerian newspapers.
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