Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415577939 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 304 str.

Herman Wasserman;Daya Thussu

Opis

'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' & 'development'.

Spis treści

@contents: Selected Contents: Notes on Contributors  Introduction  Part I: The popular media sphere: Theoretical interventions  Chapter 1 De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience  Francis Nyamnjoh  Chapter 2 Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics  Eric Louw  Chapter 3 At the crossroads of the formal and popular: convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe  Wendy Willems  Chapter 4 Theorising development and democracy through popular community media  Victor Ayedun-Aluma  Chapter 5 Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa  Tanja Bosch  Part II: Popular media, politics and power: engaging with democracy and development  Chapter 6 Popular Music as Journalism in Africa: Issues and Contexts  Winston Mano  Chapter 7 Street News: The Role of Posters in Democratic Participation in Ghana  Audrey Gadzekpo  Chapter 8 ‘If You Rattle A Snake, Be Prepared To Be Bitten’: Popular Culture, Politics And The Kenyan News Media  George Ogola  Chapter 9 Post-apartheid South African Social Movements on Film  Sean Jacobs  Part III: Audiences, agency and media in everyday life  Chapter 10 The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso  H. Leslie Steeves  Chapter 11 (South) African Articulations of the Ordinary, or, How Popular Print Commodities (Re)Organize Our Lives  Sonja Narunsky-Laden  Chapter 12 Popular TV Programmes and Audiences in Kinshasa  Marie-Soleil Frere  Chapter 13 New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation  Levi Obijiofor  Part IV: Identity and community between the local and the global  Chapter 14 Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian Films: From Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So…  Abdalla Uba Adamu  Chapter 15 Local Stories, Global Discussions. Websites, politics and identity in African contexts  Inge Brinkman, Siri Lamoureaux, Daniela Merolla and Mirjam de Bruijn  Chapter 16 Survival of ‘radio culture’ in a converged networked new media environment  Okoth Fred Mudhai  Chapter 17 Policing popular media in Africa  Monica Chibita  Index

O autorze

Herman Wasserman is Professor in the Department of Journalism and Media Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Journalism Studies, University of Sheffield, UK. He is editor of the journal Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies and has published widely on media in Southern Africa. Recent publications include Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story! (2010) and Media Ethics Beyond Borders (co-edited, 2010).