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Social Media and Digital Dissidence in Zimbabwe

Author : Trust Matsilele
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031084058
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Digital Dissidence in Zimbabwe written by Trust Matsilele and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new theorisation when studying cyber dissidents in an African digital sphere. It argues that social media dissidents are a recent development in a long lineage of dissidents in African societies. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the study locates contemporary dissidents in the same family with other historical dissident figures found in African orature, the Chimurenga wars, through music, poetry and other forms of expression. The book argues against techno-deterministic approaches to studying social media-born digital dissidence in Africa. It is aimed at scholars dedicated to studying social media movements in African contexts and the global south generally, prompting them to re-evaluate their earlier conclusions and adopt a more nuanced and contextspecific approach.

Social Media and Digital Dissidence in Zimbabwe

Author : Trust Matsilele
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031084039
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Social Media and Digital Dissidence in Zimbabwe written by Trust Matsilele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new theorisation when studying cyber dissidents in an African digital sphere. It argues that social media dissidents are a recent development in a long lineage of dissidents in African societies. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the study locates contemporary dissidents in the same family with other historical dissident figures found in African orature, the Chimurenga wars, through music, poetry and other forms of expression. The book argues against techno-deterministic approaches to studying social media-born digital dissidence in Africa. It is aimed at scholars dedicated to studying social media movements in African contexts and the global south generally, prompting them to re-evaluate their earlier conclusions and adopt a more nuanced and contextspecific approach.

Social Media Dissidence in Zimbabwe

Author : Trust Matsilele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Social Media Dissidence in Zimbabwe written by Trust Matsilele and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa

Author : Farooq A. Kperogi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000618366
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Book Synopsis Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa by : Farooq A. Kperogi

Download or read book Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa written by Farooq A. Kperogi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-27 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it. The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning for the continent’s restlessly energetic and contagiously creative youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence in African governments’ clampdown on social media and the role of Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social media censorship. Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more broadly.

Digital Activism in Zimbabwe

Author : Tenford Chitanana
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040121144
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Digital Activism in Zimbabwe written by Tenford Chitanana and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-21 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic contexts. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the book demonstrates how activists and ordinary people deploy social media, particularly Facebook, to subvert an enduring hegemonic state. However, the book also highlights how authoritarian regimes are in turn learning and adapting to the information age, challenging the impact of digital activism. Studies of digital activism in the Global South are often centred around democracy, but this book paints a more complex picture, examining the role and effect of digital activism in challenging state hegemony in authoritarian contexts. The book notes that while communication technologies help mediate activism, they are also simultaneously constrained by pre-existing and emergent challenges tied to the social and political context and the inherent limitations of those technologies. The book investigates the tactics used by digital activists, the contextual factors and restrictive political environment they operate in, including the role of pro-government activists, and ultimately, the impact of digital activism given these constraints. From the case of Zimbabwe, the book builds out a broader theoretical analysis of the evolution of ‘third world protest’ in the digital age, examining the limitations of activists’ actions and the ideological deficit in online activism to ferment a virulent counter hegemony.

Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa

Author : Lungile Tshuma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166697014X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa written by Lungile Tshuma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-09-15 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Lungile Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu and Mbongeni Msimanga, Media, Social Movements, and Protest Cultures in Africa: Hashtags, Humor, and Slogans provides a rich array of protest cultures in Sub-Saharan Africa, delving into the motivations for protests, how protests are carried out and how those targeted by protests try to undermine the protesting movements. Organized into three parts, this book examines social media and social movements, online protest strategies, and media texts used in various protest movements within Sub-Saharan Africa. The contributors shed light on the brutality of various post-colonial regimes in Africa while also giving the reader hope for the current movements that seek to wrestle their societies from the jaws of autocratic leaders. This book offers a theoretically rich and methodologically diverse engagement of protest cultures in countries like Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The wide tapestry of how these protests are formulated and executed speaks to Africa's diversity and dynamism. This book makes an important intellectual contribution on social and political movements and is relevant to policy makers and researchers in the social sciences and digital humanities.

Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe

Author : Lungile Augustine Tshuma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040224970
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe by : Lungile Augustine Tshuma

Download or read book Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe written by Lungile Augustine Tshuma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-27 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). This book investigates the ways in which photographs are being used within Zimbabwe, especially on social media, to challenge the prevailing narrative and reclaim the memories of the subjugated. The book analyses the photographs produced by Zenzo Nkobi during the struggle against colonialism. Drawing on the memories of veterans from ZAPU and its military wing the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), the book shows that photographs can both act as a conduit for existing narratives, and as a tool for shaping memory narratives, and evidencing ZPRA military prowess ahead of other movements. At a time when Zimbabwe is reassessing the legacy of liberation, this book offers a powerful multidisciplinary assessment for researchers across the fields of history, memory, political science, African studies, and media studies.

Reading Justice Claims on Social Media

Author : Phillip Santos
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031538501
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Reading Justice Claims on Social Media written by Phillip Santos and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa

Author : Trust Matsilele
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031236254
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa written by Trust Matsilele and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents case studies of news media employing and integrating social media into their news production practices. It links social media use to journalistic practices and news production processes in the digital age of the Global South. Critically, the chapters look at seminal cases of start-up news media whose content is informed by trends in social media, ethical considerations and participatory cultures spurred by the wide use of social media. There has been considerable research looking at the potential of new media technologies, traditional journalism and citizen reporting. The extent to which these new media technologies and ‘citizen journalism’ have morphed or reconfigured traditional journalism practice remains debatable. Currently, there are questions around the limits of social media in journalism practice as the ethical lines continue to become blurred. It is this conundrum of the role of social media in the reconfiguration of the media, news making, production and participatory cultures that requires more investigation. Social media has also turned the logic of the political economy of media production on its head as citizens can now produce, package and distribute news and information with shoestring budgets and in authoritarian regimes with no license of practice. This new political economy means the power that special interest groups used to enjoy is increasingly slipping from their hands as citizens take back the power to appropriate social media journalism to counter hegemonic narratives. Citizens can also perform journalistic roles of investigating and whistleblowing but with a lack off, or limited, regulation. This volume seeks to explore and untangle these issues, and provides an invaluable resource for researchers across the field of journalism, mass media, and communication studies.

The Impact of Social Media

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)

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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa

Author : Stanley Tsarwe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031194179
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa written by Stanley Tsarwe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the book sheds new light on the changing landscape of radio in a diverse set of African countries, illustrated with rich case studies from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini, Nigeria and Kenya. This book covers the following themes: youth agency and cultural power; civic engagement and political participation; youth, identity and belonging; youth cultural expressions as well as the impact of capitalist imperatives on commercial radio programing in Africa. Vibrant and innovative, Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa reveals the creation of a new public sphere, through which African youth project their voices and identities, participating in and shaping national discourse.

Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa

Author : Mphathisi Ndlovu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031398920
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Remembering Mass Atrocities: Perspectives on Memory Struggles and Cultural Representations in Africa written by Mphathisi Ndlovu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts, commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials, historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of memories, and identity politics.

Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts

Author : Carol Azungi Dralega
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 180455135X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts written by Carol Azungi Dralega and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digitisation, AI and Algorithms in African Journalism and Media Contexts moves the focus from the West, addressing the significant knowledge gaps relating to the current state of AI, algorithms and data-driven journalism, as well as the implications for political, social, cultural, markets, media viability and journalism education.

The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age

Author : Shepherd Mpofu
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030819698
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age written by Shepherd Mpofu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future. Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption, human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global South studies.

Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa

Author : Duncan Omanga
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003801560
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Digital Technologies, Elections and Campaigns in Africa written by Duncan Omanga and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at how digital technologies are revolutionizing electoral campaigns and democratization struggles in Africa. Digital technologies are giving voice and civic agency to a cross section of African voters, providing important spaces for political engagement and debate. Drawing on cases from Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Zimbabwe amongst others, this book traces the shifts and tensions in this changing electoral communications landscape. In doing so, the book explores themes such as hate speech and disinformation, decolonisation, surveillance, internet shutdowns, influencers, bots, algorithms, and election observation, and looks beyond Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and YouTube to the increasingly important role of visual platforms such as Instagram and TikTok. Particularly highlighting the contribution of African scholars, this book is an important guide for researchers across the fields of African politics, media studies, and electoral studies, as well as to professionals and policymakers in political communication.

Television in Africa in the Digital Age

Author : Gilbert Motsaathebe
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030688542
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Television in Africa in the Digital Age written by Gilbert Motsaathebe and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It address the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of television news, internet television and video on demand platforms, adaptations, digital migration, business strategies and management approaches, PBS, consumption patterns, scheduling and programming, evangelical television, and many others. The book is an important reading for academics, students and television practitioners. It offers an insightful view of television in Africa.

Media in Africa

Author : Toks Dele Oyedemi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003840663
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Media in Africa written by Toks Dele Oyedemi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and accessible introduction, this book examines a range of issues pertaining to theory, history and critiques of media in Africa. Featuring contributions from global scholars, that represent both new and established voices on the African continent and the diaspora, this volume explores themes of decolonization, media freedom, media censorship, identity, representation, pluralism, media framing, political economy of the media with emphasis on ownership, market trends and transnational media operations in Africa. Contributors explore these and other topics across a variety of media tiers, types, genres and platforms. The book also features contributions from practicing journalists and media practitioners working in Africa, providing students with hands-on knowledge from the field. Chapters in this volume take an instructional approach with contributors engaging key concepts and related theories to explore the praxis of media in Africa through specific case studies. An essential text for students of media, communication, journalism, and cultural studies who are studying media in Africa, as well as those studying global media.