African digital cultures : platforms, publics, and infrastructures / edited by James Yeku and Leah Junck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yékú, James, editor.

Junck, Leah Davina, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Digital studies (New York, N.Y.)

Digital Studies

Standardized Title:

African digital cultures (Routledge, Taylor and Francis)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Digital media.

Technology--Social aspects--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Routledge, [2026]

System Details:

digital

Contents:

List of ContributorsAfrican Digital Cultures: IntroductionJames Y̌k͠ and Leah JunckPart 1: InfrastructuresChapter 1: "Big Auntie Like Me": The Humor of the Digital DivideAdwoa A. Opoku-AgyemangChapter 2: Youth as Digital Infrastructure: Radical Openings, Internet Shutdowns, and Forward MomentumsClovis BergereChapter 3: Digital Citizens of an Analog State: Infrastructure and Epistemic Closures in NigeriaJames Y̌k͠Chapter 4: Counting Water for an African future? Smart Water Billing in South AfricaIna Dietzsch and Amber AbramsPart 2: PlatformsChapter 5: Technologies of Capture: From the Slave Ship to InstagramEjiofor UgwuChapter 6: Podcasts and Emerging Listenerships in KenyaDina LigagaChapter 7: Undisciplining the Digital: Multimodal Poetry as Decolonial Method in Koleka Putuma's Hullo Bu-bye Koko Come In (2021)Susanna SacksChapter 8: Locating African Cultural Agency in the Global Digital Economy: The Case of Music Platform Insider ActivistsJaana SerresChapter 9: Debating the Ethics of Ownership and Appropriation in Global Digital Afrobeats CultureBakar Abdul-Rashid Jeduah & Tom SimmertChapter 10: Sharevangelism: Religion, Technology, and Platform RelationsAdunni AdelakunPart 3: PublicsChapter 11: "I Don't Take Card": What Uber Drivers and Users in Ghana Can Teach Us about Localizing Foreign Technology." Elias Adanu and Stephen DadugblorChapter 12: Digital Citizenship in Nigeria: Claims Making, Civic Engagement and Social Justice Activism on XOchega Etu- AtagubaChapter 13: Voices of the Ordinary People in the Digital Era: Rebuttals to A President's Facebook EulogySelina Linda MudavanhuChapter 14: Media Identities and Risks: Mobile Money and the Dilemmas of Digital Exposure in Urban CameroonPrimus M. TazanuIndex.

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ISBN:

9781003690511

1003690513

9781040840672

Publisher Number:

40033247259

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