| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Series |
Internationalizing Media Studies |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Permissions; Introduction: Taking it to the streets; Part I The popular media sphere: Theoretical interventions; Chapter 1 De-Westernizing media theory to make room for African experience; Chapter 2 Revisiting cultural imperialism; Chapter 3 At the crossroads of the formal and popular: Convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe; Chapter 4 Theorizing popular community media for democracy and development; Chapter 5 Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa |
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Part II Popular media, politics and power: Engaging with democracy and developmentChapter 6 Popular music as journalism in Africa: Issues and contexts; Chapter 7 Street news: The role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana; Chapter 8 'If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten': Popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media; Chapter 9 Post-apartheid South African social movements on film; Part III Audiences, agency and media in everyday life |
| 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 d |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Africa
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Democratization -- Africa
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Democratization
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Mass media -- Political aspects
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Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thussu, Daya
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| ISBN |
9780203843260 |
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0203843266 |
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