{"product_id":"media-practices-and-changing-african-socialities-non-media-centric-perspectives-9781789206616","title":"Media Practices and Changing African Socialities:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tDeriving from innovative new work by six researchers, this book questions what the new media's role is in contemporary Africa. The chapters are diverse - covering 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a fascinating set of ethnographic and empirically based studies with an excellently penned Introduction.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Keyan Tomaselli\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Johannesburg\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Economy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWendy Willems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in it?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eArdis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Gender and Social Relations\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eBolingo ya face\u003c\/em\u003e: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatrien Pype\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNanna Schneidermann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eArdis Storm-Mathisen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Localities and New Media\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNanna Schneidermann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJo Helle-Valle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eThomas Hylland Eriksen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042559852887,"sku":"9781789206616","price":93.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789206616.jpg?v=1750954642","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/media-practices-and-changing-african-socialities-non-media-centric-perspectives-9781789206616","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}