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As more Africans get online, information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly hailed for their transformative potential. Yet, the fascination for the possibilities of promoting more inclusive forms of development in the information age have obfuscated the reality of the complex negotiations among political and economic actors who are seeking to use technology in their competition for power. Building on over ten years of research in Ethiopia, Iginio Gagliardone investigates the relationship between politics, development, and technological adoption in Africa's second most populous country and its largest recipient of development aid. The emphasis the book places on the 'technopolitics' of ICTs, and on their ability to embody and enact political goals, offers a strong and empirically grounded counter-argument to prevalent approaches to the study of technology and development that can be applied to other cases in Africa and beyond.

Telecommunication --- Telecommunication policy --- Information technology --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Electric communication --- Mass communication --- Telecom --- Telecommunication industry --- Telecommunications --- Communication --- Information theory --- Telecommuting --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Telecommunication and state --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Ethiopia --- Politics and government

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An eye-opening analysis of how China is transforming Africa's information space, and the consequences for geopolitics, security and Africa's relationships with China and the West.

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The euphoria that has accompanied the birth and expansion of the Internet as a "liberation technology" is increasingly eclipsed by an explosion of vitriolic language on a global scale.Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech provides the first distinctly global and interdisciplinary perspective on hateful language online. Moving beyond Euro-American allegations of "fake news," contributors draw attention to local idioms and practices and explore the profound implications for how community is imagined, enacted, and brutally enforced around the world. With a cross-cultural framework nuanced by ethnography and field-based research, the volume investigates a wide range of cases—from anti-immigrant memes targeted at Bolivians in Chile to trolls serving the ruling AK Party in Turkey—to ask how the potential of extreme speech to talk back to authorities has come under attack by diverse forms of digital hate cultures.Offering a much-needed global perspective on the "dark side" of the internet, Digital Hate is a timely and critical look at the raging debates around online media's failed promises. (Provided by publisher)

#SBIB:39A8 --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:309H103 --- #SBIB:309H511 --- #SBIB:309H518 --- Antropologie: linguïstiek, audiovisuele cultuur, antropologie van media en representatie --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Mediatechnologie / ICT / digitale media: sociale en culturele aspecten --- Verbale communicatie: algemene pragmatiek, stilistiek en teksttheorie, discoursanalyse --- Verbale communicatie: sociologie, antropologie, sociolinguistiek