Media practices and changing African socialities: non-media-centric perspectives

"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on...

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Other Authors: Helle-Valle, Jo (Editor), Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2020
Series:Anthropology of media volume 9
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Online Access:FUBA1
Summary:"Deriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - different areas of sociality in different countries - but they unite in their methodological and analytical foundation. The focus is on media-related practices, which require engagement with different perspectives and concerns while situating these in a wider analytical context. The contributions to this collection provide fresh ethnographic descriptions of how new media practices can affect socialities in significant but unpredictable ways"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 242 Seiten)
ISBN:9781789206623

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