Popular media, democracy and development in Africa

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Title:

Author:

Wasserman, Herman.

ISBN:

9780415577939

9780415577946

9780203843260

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication Information:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2011.

Physical Description:

xiii, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Internationalizing media studies

Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies

Contents:

De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics / At the crossroads of the formal and popular : convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / Theorising popular community media for democracy and development / Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Popular music as journalism in Africa : issues and contexts / Street news : the role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana / 'If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten' : popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media / Post-Apartheid South African social movements on film

The Amazing race in Burkina Faso / (South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our lives / Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa / New technologies as tools of empowerment : African youth and public sphere participation / Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian films : from Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So... / Local stories, global discussions : websites, politics and identity in African contexts / Survival of "radio culture" in a converged networked new media environment / Policing popular media in Africa

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Political aspects -- Africa.

Democratization -- Africa.

Added Author:

Wasserman, Herman.

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Summary

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the detriment of local traditions. A wide variety of media formats and platforms are discussed, ranging from radio and television to the Internet, mobile phones, street posters, film and music.

As part of the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies, the book responds to the important challenge of broadening perspectives on media studies by bringing together a range of expert analyses of media in the African continent that will be of interest to students and scholars of media in Africa and further afield.