Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa

, by Wasserman; Herman

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ISBN: 9780415577946 | 0415577942
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Copyright: 10/18/2010

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This book 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'.

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Notes on contributors	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Permissions	p. xv
Introduction: taking it to the streets	p. 1
The popular media sphere: theoretical interventions	p. 17
De-Westernizing media theory to make room for African experience	p. 19
Revisiting cultural imperialism	p. 32
At the crossroads of the formal and popular: convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe	p. 46
Theorizing popular community media for democracy and development	p. 63
Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa	p. 75
Popular media, politics and power: engaging with democracy and development	p. 89
Popular music as journalism in Africa: issues and contexts	p. 91
Street news: the role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana	p. 105
'If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten': popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media	p. 123
Post-apartheid South African social movements on film	p. 137
Audiences, agency and media in everyday life	p. 151
The Amazing Race in Burkina Faso	p. 153
(South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our lives	p. 174
Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa	p. 188
New technologies as tools of empowerment: African youth and public sphere participation	p. 207
Identity and community between the local and the global	p. 221
Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim northern Nigerian Films: from Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to Soà	p. 223
Local stories, global discussions: websites, politics and identity in African contexts	p. 236
Survival of 'radio culture' in a converged networked new media environment	p. 253
Policing popular media in Africa	p. 269
Index	p. 282
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa

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