Popular media, democracy and development in Africa / edited by Herman Wasserman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasserman, Herman, 1969-

Series:

Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies

Internationalizing media studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--Africa.

Mass media.

Democratization--Africa.

Democratization.

Mass media--Political aspects.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xiii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction

The popular media sphere : theoretical interventions. De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / FRANCIS NYAMNJOH

Revisiting cultural imperialism / P. ERIC LOUW

At the crossroads of the formal and popular : convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / WENDY WILLEMS

Theorizing popular community media for democracy and development / Victor Ayedun-Aluma

Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Tanja Bosch

Popular media, politics and power : engaging with democracy and development. Popular music as journalism in Africa : issues and contexts / WINSTON MANO

Street news : the role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana / AUDREY GADZEKPO

If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten? : popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media / GEORGE OGOLA

Post-Apartheid South African social movements on film / SEAN JACOBS

Audiences, agency and media in everyday life. The amazing race in Burkina Faso / H. LESLIE STEEVES

(South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our lives / SONJA NARUNSKY-LADEN

Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa / MARIE-SOLEIL FRERE

New technologies as tools of empowerment : African youth and public sphere participation / LEVI OBIJIOFOR

Identity and community between the local and the global. Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian films : from Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So ... / ABDALLA UBA ADAMU

Local stories, global discussions. Websites, politics and identity in African contexts / INGE BRINKMAN ... [et al.]

Survival of "radio culture" in a converged networked new media environment / OKOTH FRED MUDHAI

Policing popular media in Africa / MONICA CHIBITA.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415577939

0415577934

9780415577946

0415577942

9780203843260

0203843266

OCLC:

491891010