Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
Contains illustrations, tables, index
Series: Internationalizing Media Studies
ISBN 978-0-415-57794-6 (pbk); 978-0-203-84326-0 (ebook)
Signature commbox: 100:10-General 2011
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the detriment of local traditions. A wide variety of media formats and platforms are discussed, ranging from radio and television to the Internet, mobile phones, street posters, film and music." (Publisher description)
I. THE POPULAR MEDIA SPHERE: THEORETICAL INTERVENTIONS
1 De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / Francis Nyamnjoh, 19
2 Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics / Eric Louw, 32
3 At the crossroads of the formal and popular: convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / Wendy Willems, 46
4 Theorising development and democracy through popular community media / Victor Ayedun-Aluma, 63
5 Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Tanja Bosch, 75
II. POPULAR MEDIA, POLITICS AND POWER: ENGAGING WITH DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT
6 Popular Music as Journalism in Africa: Issues and Contexts / Winston Mano, 91
7 Street News: The Role of Posters in Democratic Participation in Ghana / Audrey Gadzekpo, 105
8 'If You Rattle A Snake, Be Prepared To Be Bitten': Popular Culture, Politics And The Kenyan News Media / George Ogola, 123
9 Post-apartheid South African Social Movements on Film / Sean Jacobs, 137
III. AUDIENCES, AGENCY AND MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
10 The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso / H. Leslie Steeves, 153
11 (South) African Articulations of the Ordinary, or, How Popular Print Commodities (Re)Organize Our Lives / Sonja Narunsky-Laden, 174
12 Popular TV Programmes and Audiences in Kinshasa / Marie-Soleil Frere, 188
13 New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation / Levi Obijiofor, 207
IV. IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL
14 Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian Films: From Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So… / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 223
15 Local Stories, Global Discussions. Websites, politics and identity in African contexts / Inge Brinkman, Siri Lamoureaux, Daniela Merolla and Mirjam de Bruijn, 236
16 Survival of 'radio culture' in a converged networked new media environment / Okoth Fred Mudhai, 253
17 Policing popular media in Africa / Monica Chibita, 269
1 De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / Francis Nyamnjoh, 19
2 Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics / Eric Louw, 32
3 At the crossroads of the formal and popular: convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / Wendy Willems, 46
4 Theorising development and democracy through popular community media / Victor Ayedun-Aluma, 63
5 Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Tanja Bosch, 75
II. POPULAR MEDIA, POLITICS AND POWER: ENGAGING WITH DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT
6 Popular Music as Journalism in Africa: Issues and Contexts / Winston Mano, 91
7 Street News: The Role of Posters in Democratic Participation in Ghana / Audrey Gadzekpo, 105
8 'If You Rattle A Snake, Be Prepared To Be Bitten': Popular Culture, Politics And The Kenyan News Media / George Ogola, 123
9 Post-apartheid South African Social Movements on Film / Sean Jacobs, 137
III. AUDIENCES, AGENCY AND MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
10 The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso / H. Leslie Steeves, 153
11 (South) African Articulations of the Ordinary, or, How Popular Print Commodities (Re)Organize Our Lives / Sonja Narunsky-Laden, 174
12 Popular TV Programmes and Audiences in Kinshasa / Marie-Soleil Frere, 188
13 New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation / Levi Obijiofor, 207
IV. IDENTITY AND COMMUNITY BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL
14 Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian Films: From Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So… / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 223
15 Local Stories, Global Discussions. Websites, politics and identity in African contexts / Inge Brinkman, Siri Lamoureaux, Daniela Merolla and Mirjam de Bruijn, 236
16 Survival of 'radio culture' in a converged networked new media environment / Okoth Fred Mudhai, 253
17 Policing popular media in Africa / Monica Chibita, 269
