Globalization and Cyberculture

An Afrocentric Perspective
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-83774-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 136 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 207 g

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations  in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail’s Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa’s cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Langmia, Kehbuma

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Traditional African and Western Modern Cultures.- Chapter 2. Cyberculture, Cybersubculture and Africa.- Chapter 3. Road to Cyberculture in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 4. Requiem for In-person verbal/Nonverbal communication.- Chapter 5. New media new cultural dependence.- Chapter 6. Cyber culture and digital divide.- Chapter 7. Cyber culture and IdentityChapter 8. Cybernetic- Psycho-syndrome.- Chapter 9. Cybersecurity in Africa.- Chapter 10. Cyberculture and e-Health Communication in Africa.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Kehbuma Langmia is Fulbright Scholar/Professor and Chair of the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication in the School of Communications at Howard University, USA. He publishes in the areas of intercultural communication, social media, and information communication technology.