Globalization and Cyberculture: An Afrocentric Perspective

ISBN-13: 9783319475837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 136 str.

Kehbuma Langmia

Opis

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail s Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa s cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.
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Spis treści

Chapter 1. Traditional African and Western Modern Cultures

Chapter 2. Cyberculture, Cybersubculture and Africa

Chapter 3. Road to Cyberculture in sub-Saharan Africa

Chapter 4. Requiem for In-person verbal/Nonverbal communication

Chapter 5. New media new cultural dependence

Chapter 6. Cyber culture and digital divide

Chapter 7. Cyber culture and Identity

Chapter 8. Cybernetic- Psycho-syndrome

Chapter 9. Cybersecurity in Africa

Chapter 10. Cyberculture and e-Health Communication in Africa

O autorze

Kehbuma Langmia is Fulbright Scholar/Professor and Chair of the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication in the School of Communications at Howard University, USA. He publishes in the areas of intercultural communication, social media, and information communication technology.

Blurb

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural/subcultural forms of communication. It demonstrates that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital technology, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, aiding in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. The book also engages Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication.

Kehbuma Langmia is Fulbright Scholar/Professor and Chair of the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication in the School of Communications at Howard University, USA. He publishes in the areas of intercultural communication, social media, and information communication technology.