WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News

ISBN-13: 9781350257870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 208 str.

Nigeria Idayat Hassan (Centre for Democracy and Development;Jamie Hitchen (Independent Researcher)

Opis

WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in over 80% of countries in West Africa, and a daily port of call for a wide range of information and services. This edited collection seeks to examine the impact that this transformative technology has had beyond the much-discussed role it has played in the spread of misinformation, and explore more widely the fundamental changes that WhatsApp has brought to many citizens' lives in social, economic and political contexts. Ranging across subjects including political organisation, religious practice, and family relations, each author in this volume brings direct knowledge and testimony of the impact of WhatsApp across West African society.

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Figures and Tables Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION: A NEW PLATFORM FOR OLD NETWORKS? WHATSAPP AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN WEST AFRICA Idayat Hassan and Jamie Hitchen CHAPTER 1: WhatsApp and Political Messaging at the Periphery: Insights from Northern Ghana Gabrielle Lynch, Ghadafi Saibu and Elena Gadjanova CHAPTER 2: WhatsApp, youth and politics in The Gambia: An analysis of ‘Democratic Gambia’ Sait Matty Jaw CHAPTER 3: WhatsApp political campaigns in Nigeria Nwachukwu Egbunike CHAPTER 4: Tailored to fit? WhatsApp marketing in Nigeria’s fashion industry Kolawole Talabi CHAPTER 5: “The Forum”: A WhatsApp support group for health and social service providers during the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon Kamila Pacholek, Madalina Prostean, Sarah Burris, Lynn Cockburn, Julius Nganji, Anya Nadege, and Louis Mbibeh CHAPTER 6: The dynamics of WhatsApp usage among elderly Nigerians Temitayo Olofinlua CHAPTER 7: New Media, Social Relationships and Communication Imperatives: A study of Christlove Fellowship Alumni WhatsApp groups Feyisitan Ijimakinwa and Fortune Afatakpa CHAPTER 8: Sharing the gospel: How Nigeria’s Catholic community is building a WhatsApp congregation Patrick Egwu CHAPTER 9: Amplifying female voices in northern Nigerian politics: The role of WhatsApp Na’ima Hafiz Abubakar CHAPTER 10: Reinventing the newspaper for the WhatsApp age Simon Allison