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Social Media and Everyday Life in South Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2021), x, 157 pp.
"This volume explores how, over the past decade, social media platforms have deeply penetrated the fabric of everyday life. The author considers South Africans’ use of wearable tech and use of online health and sports tracking systems via mobile phones within the broader context of the digital dat
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Media Practices and Changing African Socialities: Non-Media-Centric Perspectives
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2020), 250 pp.
"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
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It Happened on Tinder: Reflections and Studies on Internet-Infused Dating
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2019), 219 pp.
Genre et migrations féminines à l'ère du numérique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 154 pp.
"Cette étude porte, à partir du cas camerounais, sur un nouveau phénomène social de migration statutaire, apparu en Afrique, dans le cadre de la mondialisation que nous appelons la cybermigration maritale. Cette modalité contemporaine de mobilité met en relation des personnes exclues ou auto e
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Free Speech in the Digital Age
New York: Oxford University Press (2019), xvi, 259 pp.
"This collection of thirteen new essays is the first to examine, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, how the new technologies and global reach of the internet are changing the theory and practice of free speech. The rapid expansion of online communication, as well as the changing roles of gov
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La "cybermigration maritale" des femmes camerounaises: La quête de conjoints blancs
Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 176 pp.
Der indische Online-Heiratsmarkt: Medienpraktiken und Frauenbilder im Wandel
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2014), 337 pp.
"In Indien wirft das Thema Eheschließung Fragen individueller und kultureller Identität im Spannungsfeld von gesellschaftlichem Wandel und Kontinuität auf. Am rasant wachsenden indischen Online-Heiratsmarkt lassen sich diese Fragen besonders eindrücklich im Zusammenhang mit der Medienentwicklung
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