Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Digital Studies
Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures
Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Reihe: Digital Studies
ISBN: 978-90-485-6492-7
Verlag: Pallas Publications
Analyzing the innovative and popular uses of digital media technologies across many African countries, African Digital Cultures reveals how digitization, through its inherent computational and epistemological logics, is deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people, producing new structures of feeling and new possibilities for political participation, cultural expression, and creative agency.
This book grapples with the affective elements of mediatized social relations and consciousness, as platforms like WhatsApp, Facebook, and TikTok increasingly inform the construction of diverse kinds of publics—from the religious and political to the sexual and the literary. Focusing on the creative and disruptive uses of social media platforms, financial technologies, digital infrastructures, and artificial intelligence, this collection brings together scholars whose work challenges the notion of Africa as a place of technological lack, underscoring the rich histories and contributions of the continent to global digital media.
This interdisciplinary volume offers an essential and decolonizing understanding of digital media cultures and histories from an African perspective.
Zielgruppe
Academic
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Multimedia
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
List of Contributors
African Digital Cultures: Introduction
James Yékú and Leah Junck
Part 1: Infrastructures
Chapter 1: “Big Auntie Like Me”: The Humor of the Digital Divide
Adwoa A. Opoku-Agyemang
Chapter 2: Youth as Digital Infrastructure: Radical Openings, Internet Shutdowns, and Forward Momentums
Clovis Bergere
Chapter 3: Digital Citizens of an Analog State: Infrastructure and Epistemic Closures in Nigeria
James Yékú
Chapter 4: Counting Water for an African future? Smart Water Billing in South Africa
Ina Dietzsch and Amber Abrams
Part 2: Platforms
Chapter 5: Technologies of Capture: From the Slave Ship to Instagram
Ejiofor Ugwu
Chapter 6: Podcasts and Emerging Listenerships in Kenya
Dina Ligaga
Chapter 7: Undisciplining the Digital: Multimodal Poetry as Decolonial Method in Koleka Putuma’s Hullo Bu-bye Koko Come In (2021)
Susanna Sacks
Chapter 8: Locating African Cultural Agency in the Global Digital Economy: The Case of Music Platform Insider Activists
Jaana Serres
Chapter 9: Debating the Ethics of Ownership and Appropriation in Global Digital Afrobeats Culture
Bakar Abdul-Rashid Jeduah & Tom Simmert
Chapter 10: Sharevangelism: Religion, Technology, and Platform Relations
Adunni Adelakun
Part 3: Publics
Chapter 11: “I Don’t Take Card”: What Uber Drivers and Users in Ghana Can Teach Us about Localizing Foreign Technology.”
Elias Adanu and Stephen Dadugblor
Chapter 12: Digital Citizenship in Nigeria: Claims Making, Civic Engagement and Social Justice Activism on X
Ochega Etu- Ataguba
Chapter 13: Voices of the Ordinary People in the Digital Era: Rebuttals to A President’s Facebook Eulogy
Selina Linda Mudavanhu
Chapter 14: Media Identities and Risks: Mobile Money and the Dilemmas of Digital Exposure in Urban Cameroon
Primus M. Tazanu
Index
