Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.
Contains index
ISBN 978-1-78920-661-6 (hbk); 978-1-78920-662-3 (ebook)
"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context. The contributions to this collection provide fresh ethnographic descriptions of how new media practices can affect socialities in significant but unpredictable ways." (Publisher description)
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-media-Centric Perspectives / Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen, 1
PART I. ECONOMY
1 Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia / Wendy Willems, 35
2 Botswana's Digital Revolution: What's in it? / Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle, 60
PART II. GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
3 Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype, 93
4 Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme / Nanna Schneidermann, 125
5 New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone - and Connections Through Education / Ardis Storm-Mathisen, 148
PART III. LOCALITIES AND NEW MEDIA
6 The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb / Nanna Schneidermann, 173
7 From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village / Jo Helle-Valle, 194
Afterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 218
PART I. ECONOMY
1 Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia / Wendy Willems, 35
2 Botswana's Digital Revolution: What's in it? / Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle, 60
PART II. GENDER AND SOCIAL RELATIONS
3 Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa / Katrien Pype, 93
4 Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme / Nanna Schneidermann, 125
5 New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone - and Connections Through Education / Ardis Storm-Mathisen, 148
PART III. LOCALITIES AND NEW MEDIA
6 The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb / Nanna Schneidermann, 173
7 From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village / Jo Helle-Valle, 194
Afterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 218
