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Digital democracy, analogue politics : how the Internet era is transforming Kenya / Nanjala Nyabola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nyabola, Nanjala, author.
- Series:
- African arguments
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political participation--Technological innovations--Kenya.
- Political participation.
- Internet in political campaigns--Kenya.
- Internet in political campaigns.
- Political participation--Technological innovations.
- Kenya--Politics and government--2002-.
- Kenya.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 273 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Zed Books, 2018.
- Contents:
- Part I: Analogue politics
- 1. 2007: the violent origins of Kenya's digital decade
- 2. Avatars in the square : theorising the Kenyan public sphere
- 3. Collision course : where analogue meets digital
- 4. Rattling the snake without getting bitten: new media usurping traditional media in Kenya
- Part II: Digital democracy?
- 5. An African country in the digital age : the making and uses of #KOT
- 6. Redefining community : the politics of public performances of empathy
- 7. Women at work : Kenyan feminist organising on social media
- 8. Politics, predators and profit : ethnicity, hate speech and digital colonialism
- Part III. History not learned from
- 9. 2017 : the most expensive election in the world
- 10. Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-259) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781786994301
- 1786994305
- 9781786994318
- 1786994313
- OCLC:
- 1063783996
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