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The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces

Author : Khanyile Mlotshwa
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793645264
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces written by Khanyile Mlotshwa and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-06-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies, Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles establishes a debate and dialogue between critical and post-/de-colonial approaches in the study of subalternity in online media representations. Editors Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu curate chapters that deal specifically with the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland, a political and geographical region in the Southwest part of Zimbabwe comprising of three provinces: Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, and Bulawayo metropolitan province. The subalternity of this region emerges in politics and popular culture, including media, as intersectional in terms of ethnicity, region, gender, class, and beyond. This book argues that in online spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped in coloniality.

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.

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 2024-08-19 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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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.

Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Author : Lungile Augustine Tshuma
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040042295
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism by : Lungile Augustine Tshuma

Download or read book Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism written by Lungile Augustine Tshuma and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the trends and patterns of journalists’ harassment in Africa and assesses the policy interventions and protection mechanisms that are put into place in the region. Drawing from case studies from selected African countries, an international team of authors offer a broad insight into the state of harassment across the continent, while building new theoretical perspectives that are also context-specific. The chapters bring previous theories and research up to date by addressing the continual change and development of new discourses, including the use of big data and artificial intelligence in harassing and intimidating journalists and mental health issues affecting journalists in their line of duty. More so, the authors argue that the state and form of harassment is not universal, as location and context are some of the key factors that influence the form and character of harassment. Offering new theoretical insights into the scope of journalism practices in Africa, this book will interest students and scholars of journalism, African studies, political science, media and communication studies, journalism practice and gender 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.

Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648894712
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1. written by Uche Onyebadi and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.

African Language Media

Author : Phillip Mpofu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000847128
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book African Language Media written by Phillip Mpofu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts. African language media can be considered as a tool for communication, socialization, and community that defines the various identities of indigenous people in Africa. This book shows how vernacular media outlets including radio and television, as well as native formats such as festivals, rituals and dance, can be used to influence all facets of local peoples’ experience and understanding of community. The book also explores the relationship between African language media sources and contemporary issues including the digitalization conundrum, peace and conflict resolution, identity formation, hate speech and fake news. Furthermore, it shows how local media can be used for development communication purposes during health and environmental crises. The book includes cases studies demonstrating the uses, experiences and activities related to various forms of media available in African languages. This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of communication and media studies, health and environmental communication, journalism, African studies and anthropology.

Fending for Ourselves

Author : Rory Pilossof
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 1779224028
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (792 download)

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Download or read book Fending for Ourselves written by Rory Pilossof and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe celebrated its independence just over 40 years ago. While the nation is no longer young, its population certainly is: over 60% are under the age of 35. Understanding youth perspectives and experiences is therefore vitally important. Fending for Ourselves reviews the recent histories and realities of youths in Zimbabwe, offering a distinguished range of authors exploring issues of education, employment and work, the urban experience, involvement in the informal economy, mental health, and political activity. Importantly, the collection examines successive generations of youth in Zimbabwe to show how ideas, experiences and reactions to the social, political, and economic context have shifted over time. Many of the issues affecting youth over the past 40 years have been traumatic and distressing physical and mental abuse, declining employment and educational opportunities, poverty, ill-health and loss of hope but this collection underlines the agency and resilience of Zimbabwes young people, and how they have found ways to navigate the political, social, and economic terrains they occupy.

The New Zimbabwe

Author : Joshua Nkomo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Zimbabwe written by Joshua Nkomo and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa

Author : Jacinta Maweu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100036142X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa written by Jacinta Maweu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either ‘good’ (as symbolized by peace journalism) or ‘bad’ (as exemplified by war journalism), but this book moves beyond this binary to highlight the ‘in-between’ role that the media often plays in times of conflict. The volume does not only focus on the relationship between mass media, conflict and peacebuilding processes but it broadens its scope by critically analysing the dynamic and emergent roles of popular and digital media platforms in a continent where the semi-literate and oral communities still rely heavily on popular communication platforms to get news and information. Whilst social media platforms have been hailed for their assumed democratic and digital dividends, this book does not only focus on these positive aspects but also shines a light on dark forms of participation which are fuelling racial, gender, ethnic, political and religious conflicts in highly polarized and stratified societies. Highlighting the many ways in which traditional, digital and popular media can be used to both escalate conflicts and promote peacebuilding, this volume will be a useful resource for students, researchers and civil society groups interested in peace and conflict studies, journalism and media studies in different contexts within Africa.

Piracy Cultures

Author : Manuel Castells
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479732273
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Piracy Cultures written by Manuel Castells and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy CulturesEditorial Introduction MANUEL CASTELLS 1 University of Southern California GUSTAVO CARDOSO Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL) What are "Piracy Cultures"? Usually, we look at media consumption starting from a media industry definition. We look at TV, radio, newspapers, games, Internet, and media content in general, all departing from the idea that the access to such content is made available through the payment of a license fee or subscription, or simply because its either paid or available for free (being supported by advertisements or under a "freemium" business model). That is, we look at content and the way people interact with it within a given system of thought that sees content and its distribution channels as the product of relationships between media companies, organizations, and individualseffectively, a commercial relationship of a contractual kind, with accordant rights and obligations. But what if, for a moment, we turned our attention to the empirical evidence of media consumption practice, not just in Asia, Africa, and South America, but also all over Europe and North America? All over the world, we are witnessing a growing number of people building media relationships outside those institutionalized sets of rules. We do not intend to discuss whether we are dealing with legal or illegal practices; our launching point for this analysis is that, when a very significant proportion of the population is building its mediation through alternative channels of obtaining content, such behavior should be studied in order to deepen our knowledge of media cultures. Because we need a title to characterize those cultures in all their diversitybut at the same time, in their commonplacenesswe propose to call it "Piracy Cultures."

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.

The Fear

Author : Peter Godwin
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0316123315
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Fear written by Peter Godwin and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for 30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own citizens. With foreign correspondents banned, and he himself there illegally, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear witness to this period the locals call The Fear. He saw torture bases and the burning villages but was most awed as an observer of not only simple acts of kindness but also churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line to try to stop the carnage. The Fear is a book about the astonishing courage and resilience of a people, armed with nothing but a desire to be free, who challenged a violent dictatorship. It is also the deeply personal and ultimately uplifting story of a man trying to make sense of the country he can't recognize as home.

Chad

Author : International Monetary Fund. African Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1484324072
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Chad written by International Monetary Fund. African Dept. and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the effect of an IMF Staff-Monitored Program for Chad to enhance economic development. Weak institutional capacity and governance concerns have limited economic development and donor support in Chad. It is highlighted that the reduction in the nonoil primary deficit envisaged in the 2013 budget appears appropriate, but expenditures linked to the regional security situation and lower than anticipated oil revenues imply large financing needs. There are significant economic and political risks to program implementation,; the regional security situation remains volatile, and the economy is highly dependent on volatile oil revenue.

The Incredible Journey of Plants

Author : Stefano Mancuso
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1635429927
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book The Incredible Journey of Plants written by Stefano Mancuso and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year for the Know-It-All by The Globe and Mail In this richly illustrated volume, a leading neurobiologist presents fascinating stories of plant migration that reveal unexpected connections between nature and culture. When we talk about migrations, we should study plants to understand that these phenomena are unstoppable. In the many different ways plants move, we can see the incessant action and drive to spread life that has led plants to colonize every possible environment on earth. The history of this relentless expansion is unknown to most people, but we can begin our exploration with these surprising tales, engagingly told by Stefano Mancuso. Generation after generation, using spores, seeds, or any other means available, plants move in the world to conquer new spaces. They release huge quantities of spores that can be transported thousands of miles. The number and variety of tools through which seeds spread is astonishing: we have seeds dispersed by wind, by rolling on the ground, by animals, by water, or by a simple fall from the plant, which can happen thanks to propulsive mechanisms, the swaying of the mother plant, the drying of the fruit, and much more. In this accessible, absorbing overview, Mancuso considers how plants convince animals to transport them around the world, and how some plants need particular animals to spread; how they have been able to grow in places so inaccessible and inhospitable as to remain isolated; how they resisted the atomic bomb and the Chernobyl disaster; how they are able to bring life to sterile islands; how they can travel through the ages, as they sail around the world.