Title Cryptopolitics : exposure, concealment, and digital media / edited by Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2023

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Description 1 online resource Series Anthropology of media ; Volume 12 Contents Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype -- The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner -- KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola -- The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais -- Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka -- The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal -- Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali -- Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal Summary "Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to consider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Information society -- Political aspects -- Africa Digital media -- Political aspects -- Africa Power (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- Africa Digital media -- Political aspects Information society -- Political aspects SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social Africa Form Electronic book Author Bernal, Victoria, editor Pype, Katrien, editor Rodima-Taylor, Daivi, editor LC no. 2023004600 ISBN 9781805390336 1805390333 9781805390305 1805390309

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