Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Non-media-centric Perspectives
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-78920-661-6
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 521 g

Reihe: Anthropology of Media

Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context. The contributions to this collection provide fresh ethnographic descriptions of how new media practices can affect socialities in significant but unpredictable ways.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helle-Valle, Jo

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes

Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen



Part I: Economy

Chapter 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia

Wendy Willems

Chapter 2. Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in it?

Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle

Part II: Gender and Social Relations

Chapter 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa

Katrien Pype

Chapter 4. Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme

Nanna Schneidermann

Chapter 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education

Ardis Storm-Mathisen

Part III: Localities and New Media

Chapter 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb

Nanna Schneidermann

Chapter 7. From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village

Jo Helle-Valle

Afterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius

Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Storm-Mathisen, Ardis
Ardis Storm-Mathisen is Research Professor at Consumption Research Norway and at the Faculty of Education, Oslo Metropolitan University.

Helle-Valle, Jo
Jo Helle-Valle is a social anthropologist and Professor in the Development Studies Department at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has published in journals such as Journal of African Media Studies, Africa, Ethnos, History and Anthropology, and New Media & Society.

Jo Helle-Valle is a social anthropologist and Professor in the Development Studies Department at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has published in journals such as Journal of African Media Studies, Africa, Ethnos, History and Anthropology, and New Media & Society.