Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.
Contains 5 figures, 5 tables, index
ISBN 978-94-6298-685-5
Signature commbox: 100:70-General 2019
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially appreciate the editors’ efforts to address African issues on their own terms and to problematize interpretive paradigms from the global north. It is a book that many will look forward to reading." (Pier Paolo Frassinelli, Professor, School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
I. FOUNDATIONS AND THEORY
1 Comprehending the digital disparities in Africa / Bruce Mutsvairo & Massimo Ragnedda, 13
2 Conceptualizing the digital divide / Massimo Ragnedda, 27
3 From Global to Local, Metropolitan to the village. A Case for definitional and context-oriented approach to examining the 'digital divide' / Tenford Chitanana, 45
4 Technology and the democratic space in Africa: A re-examination of the notion of 'digital divide' / Muhammed Musa, 65
II. SOCIAL INCLUSION AND DIGITAL EXCLUSION
5 The partially digital: Internet and South African youth / Toks Oyedemi, 91
6 Online football fandom as a microcosm of the digital participation divide in Zimbabwe / Lyton Ncube, 113
7 The discourse of digital inclusion of women in Rwanda's media: A thematic analysis of Imvaho Nshya and The New Times newspapers / Margaret Jjuuko and Joseph Njuguna, 131
CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PARADIGMS
8 The digital divide and film / Beschara Karam, 153
9 Digital divide or information divide: Interrogating Telecommunication Penetration measurements in communal African Societies / Chika Anyanwu, 173
10 Exploring how mobile phones mediate bonding, bridging and linking social capital in a South African rural area / Lorenzo Dalvit and Mbalenhle Buthelezi, 195
11 Bridging the Digital Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Analysis of Illiteracy and Language Divide / Steven Sam, 215
12 Kenya's 'mobile agriculture' discourse: unpacking notions of technology, modernisation and development / Sara Brouwer, 257
1 Comprehending the digital disparities in Africa / Bruce Mutsvairo & Massimo Ragnedda, 13
2 Conceptualizing the digital divide / Massimo Ragnedda, 27
3 From Global to Local, Metropolitan to the village. A Case for definitional and context-oriented approach to examining the 'digital divide' / Tenford Chitanana, 45
4 Technology and the democratic space in Africa: A re-examination of the notion of 'digital divide' / Muhammed Musa, 65
II. SOCIAL INCLUSION AND DIGITAL EXCLUSION
5 The partially digital: Internet and South African youth / Toks Oyedemi, 91
6 Online football fandom as a microcosm of the digital participation divide in Zimbabwe / Lyton Ncube, 113
7 The discourse of digital inclusion of women in Rwanda's media: A thematic analysis of Imvaho Nshya and The New Times newspapers / Margaret Jjuuko and Joseph Njuguna, 131
CULTURAL, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PARADIGMS
8 The digital divide and film / Beschara Karam, 153
9 Digital divide or information divide: Interrogating Telecommunication Penetration measurements in communal African Societies / Chika Anyanwu, 173
10 Exploring how mobile phones mediate bonding, bridging and linking social capital in a South African rural area / Lorenzo Dalvit and Mbalenhle Buthelezi, 195
11 Bridging the Digital Gap in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Analysis of Illiteracy and Language Divide / Steven Sam, 215
12 Kenya's 'mobile agriculture' discourse: unpacking notions of technology, modernisation and development / Sara Brouwer, 257
