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Title Online journalism in Africa : trends, practices and emerging cultures / edited by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker
Published New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
Series Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12
Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12.
Contents Foreword / by Stuart Allan -- Introduction / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker -- Online vs. traditional journalism practice. Back to the future : re-invigorating the "newsroom genre" to study social media use in developing contexts / Marenet Jordann -- The South African mainstream press in the online environment : successes, opportunities and challenges / Johanna Mavhungu and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Converging technologies, converging spaces, converging practices : the shaping of digital cultures and practices on radio / Last Moyo -- Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the "social media age" : emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Ethics and regulation. Online journalism under pressure : an Ethiopian account / Terje S. Skjerdal -- The use of social media as news sources by South African political journalists / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Nathalie Hyde-Clarke -- Online journalism and politics. Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa : networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya / Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Online journalism, citizen participation and engagement in Egypt / Ahmed El Gody -- Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions : a critical analysis / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn -- J-blogging and the "agenda cutting" phenomena in Egypt -- Nagwa Abdel Salam Fahmy -- Consumption and networking online news media consumption cultures among Zimbabwean citizens : "home and away" / Tendai Chari -- The Internet, diasporic media and online journalism in West Africa / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u -- "Our listeners would rather call than post messages on Facebook" : new media and community radio in Kenya / George Ogola -- Online forums : how the voices of readers are reshaping the sphere of public debate in Burkina Faso / Marie-Soleil Frere -- Epilogue / by Chris Paterson
Summary Very little is known about how African journalists are forging ""new"" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comprehensive research tool that can both stand the test of time as well as offer researchers (particularly those in the economically developed Global North) models for cross-cultural comparative research. The essays here deploy either a wide range of evidence or adopt a case-study approach to engag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBL, viewed March 4, 2014)
Subject Online journalism -- Africa
Journalism -- Technological innovations -- Africa
Citizen journalism -- Africa
Social media -- Africa
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
Citizen journalism
Journalism -- Technological innovations
Online journalism
Social media
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi, 1977- editor.
Mudhai, Okoth Fred, editor
Whittaker, Jason, 1969- editor.
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