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Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda
ISBN: 9780230614864
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.
This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances through analyses of words and deeds of various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organisations and minority groups. It is the first such publication contributed to by various African and Africanist scholars, based in Africa and around the world, whose research and/or practice activities focus on the relationship between new digital media and democracy on the continent.
| ISBN | 0230614868 | | Pages | 276 | | ISBN13 | 9780230614864
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 408 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication | | Publication date | 17 Jun 2009 | | Height (mm) | 218 | | Library of Congress | 2008043027 | | Width (mm) | 145 | | DEWEY | 306.2096090511 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | List of Tables | | | | 1 | | Introduction: New Media and Democracy in Africa - A Critical Interjection by Fackson Banda and Okoth Fred Mudhai and Wisdom J. Tettey | | 1 | | 2 | | Implications for Africa of E-Gov Challenges for Giants South Africa and Nigeria by Okoth Fred Mudhai | | 21 | | 3 | | "Misclick" on Democracy: New Media Use by Key Political Parties in Kenya's Disputed December 2007 Presidential Election by George Nyabuga and Okoth Fred Mudhai | | 41 | | 4 | | Repression, Propaganda, and Digital Resistance: New Media and Democracy in Zimbabwe by Last Moyo | | 57 | | 5 | | Democractic Process, Civic Consciousness, and the Internet in Francophone Africa by Marie-Soleil Frere and Alain Kiyindou | | 73 | | 6 | | Use of the Internet by NGOs to Promote Government Accountability: The Case of Egypt by Khayrat Ayyad | | 89 | | 7 | | ICTization beyond Urban Male Elites: Issues of Gender Equality and Empowerment by Kutoma J. Wakunuma-Zojer and Patricia K. Litho | | 105 | | 8 | | ICTs, Youths, and the Politics of Participation in Rural Uganda by Carol Azungi Dralega | | 125 | | 9 | | Transnationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Deterritorialized Politics of the Internet by Wisdom J. Tettey | | 143 | | 10 | | Globalization from below? ICTs and Democratic Development in the Project "Indymedia Africa" by Fabian Frenzel and Sian Sullivan | | 165 | | 11 | | New Public Spheres: The Digital Age and Big Brother by Keyan G. Tomaselli and Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli | | 183 | | 12 | | Popular Music, New Media, and the Digital Public Sphere in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, and Nigeria by George Ogola and Anne Schumann and Michael Olutayo Olatunji | | 203 | | 13 | | News Media Use of ICTs amidst War, Violence, and Political Turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes by Marie-Soleil Frere | | 223 | | 14 | | Conflict Coverage in a Digital Age: Challenges for African Media by Rune Ottosen and Okoth Fred Mudhai | | 239 | | | | Index | | 255 |
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