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Cryptopolitics : Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media / ed. by Katrien Pype, Victoria Bernal, Daivi Rodima-Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- nders), FWO (Fund for Scientific Research in Fla, Author.
- Series:
- Anthropology of Media Series
- Anthropology of Media ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society--Political aspects--Africa.
- Information society.
- Digital media--Political aspects--Africa.
- Digital media.
- Power (Social sciences)--Political aspects--Africa.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her articles and chapters have appeared in various collections as well as in anthropological, African Studies, and interdisciplinary journals including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Global Networks, Comparative Studies in Society and History, African Studies Review, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Katrien Pype is a cultural anthropologist and works at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University. She is mainly interested in media, popular culture, and technology. Her monograph, The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama. Religion, Media, and Gender in Kinshasa was published with Berghahn Books (2012). Pype also co-edited, with Jaco Hoffman, Aging in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care (2016, Policy Press). Daivi Rodima-Taylor is a social anthropologist and researcher at the African Studies Center of the Pardee School of Global Studies of Boston University. Her research focuses on the intersection of financial technology and human economies. She recently co-edited the volume Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging (Berghahn Books, 2022) and the special issue Fintech in Africa (Journal of Cultural Economy, 2022). Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her articles and chapters have appeared in various collections as well as in anthropological, African Studies, and interdisciplinary journals including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Global Networks, Comparative Studies in Society and History, African Studies Review, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.
- Summary:
- Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media toconsider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.
- Contents:
- Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor
- Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype
- The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner
- KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola
- The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais
- Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka
- The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor
- "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal
- Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali
- Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal.
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Jan 2024)
- ISBN:
- 9781805390336
- 1805390333
- 9781805390305
- 1805390309
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