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This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.

Citizen journalism --- Online journalism --- Social media --- Political participation --- Journalism --- Journalism & Communications --- Communication & Mass Media --- Political aspects --- User-generated media --- Electronic journalism --- Internet journalism --- Participatory journalism --- Public journalism --- Digital media --- Amateur journalism --- Blogs --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Communication. --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Economic development. --- Ethnology. --- Media and Communication. --- African Culture. --- Development Studies. --- Media Studies. --- Cultural Anthropology. --- Journalism. --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Ethnology—Africa. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news

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This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides empirical evidence as to why some of the methods conceptualised in Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the discipline on the continent.

Culture --- Ethnology --- Communication. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Media and Communication. --- African Culture. --- Journalism and Broadcasting. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- Africa. --- Mass media --- Research. --- Research --- Media, Mass --- Media, The --- Communication --- Ethnology-Africa. --- Journalism. --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Publicity --- Fake news --- Ethnology—Africa.

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This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media and communication in Africa.

Political Science / Political Process / Media & Internet --- Political Science / World / African --- Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies --- Political science --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The --- Political structure and processes --- Communication studies --- Politics and government --- Communication in politics --- Decolonization --- Communication --- Africa --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Political Science --- Nonfiction. --- Language Arts. --- Media Studies. --- Politics.

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Despite issues associated with the digital divide, mobile telephony is growing on the continent and the rise of smartphones has given citizens easy access to social networking sites. But the digital divide, which mostly reflects on one's race, gender, socioeconomic status or geographical location, stands in the way of digital progress. What opportunities are available to tame digital disparities? How are different societies in Africa handling digital problems? What innovative methods are being used to provide citizens with access to critical information that can help improve their lives? Experiences from various locations in several sub-Saharan African countries have been carefully selected in this collection with the aim of providing an updated account on the digital divide and its impact in Africa.

Digital divide --- Africa --- Social conditions. --- Digital divide, Africa, technology, social media.

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aking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication and algorithmization? How can we explore the changing conditions and contours for living within such new and changing frameworks? How can, or should we, think and act within, but also in response to these conditions? This collection brings together various perspectives on the datafication and algorithmization of culture from debates and disciplines within the field of cultural inquiry, specifically (new) media studies, game studies, urban studies, screen studies, and gender and postcolonial studies. It proposes conceptual and methodological directions for exploring where, when, and how data and algorithms (re)shape cultural practices, create (in)justice, and (co)produce knowledge.

PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General. --- epistemology, performativity, mediatisation, materiality, criticality. --- Performing arts.