African Media and the Digital Public Sphere

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: New Media and Democracy in Africa—A Critical Interjection

   • Fackson Banda, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey

   Pages 1-20

3. Implications for Africa of E-Gov Challenges for Giants South Africa and Nigeria

   • Okoth Fred Mudhai

   Pages 21-40

4. “Misclick” on Democracy: New Media Use by Key Political Parties in Kenya’s Disputed December 2007 Presidential Election

   • George Nyabuga, Okoth Fred Mudhai

   Pages 41-56

5. Repression, Propaganda, and Digital Resistance: New Media and Democracy in Zimbabwe

   • Last Moyo

   Pages 57-71

6. Democratic Process, Civic Consciousness, and the Internet in Francophone Africa

   • Marie-Soleil Frère, Alain Kiyindou

   Pages 73-88

7. Use of the Internet by NGOs to Promote Government Accountability: The Case of Egypt

   • Khayrat Ayyad

   Pages 89-103

8. ICTization beyond Urban Male Elites: Issues of Gender Equality and Empowerment

   • Kutoma J. Wakunuma-Zojer, Patricia K. Litho

   Pages 105-123

9. ICTs, Youths, and the Politics of Participation in Rural Uganda

   • Carol Azungi Dralega

   Pages 125-142

10. Transnationalism, the African Diaspora, and the Deterritorialized Politics of the Internet

    • Wisdom J. Tettey

    Pages 143-163

11. Globalization from below? ICTs and Democratic Development in the Project “Indymedia Africa”

    • Fabian Frenzel, Sian Sullivan

    Pages 165-182

12. New Public Spheres: The Digital Age and Big Brother

    • Keyan G. Tomaselli, Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli

    Pages 183-202

13. Popular Music, New Media, and the Digital Public Sphere in Kenya, Côte d’Ivoire, and Nigeria

    • George Ogola, Anne Schumann, Michael Olutayo Olatunji

    Pages 203-222

14. News Media Use of ICTs amidst War, Violence, and Political Turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes

    • Marie-Soleil Frère

    Pages 223-238

15. Conflict Coverage in a Digital Age: Challenges for African Media

    • Rune Ottosen, Okoth Fred Mudhai

    Pages 239-253

16. Back Matter

    Pages 255-260

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This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.

• democracy
• Government
• Political Parties

• Coventry University, UK

  Okoth Fred Mudhai

• University of Calgary, Canada

  Wisdom J. Tettey

• School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa

  Fackson Banda

Okoth Fred Mudhai is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Global Media and Communication in the Media Department of Coventry University.

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