TY - CHAP
T1 - Brokers of belonging
T2 - elders and intermediaries in Kinshasa’s mobile phone culture
AU - Pype, Katrien
PY - 2016/11/28
Y1 - 2016/11/28
N2 - African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume contributes to the broader project of provincializing and decolonizing audience and internet studies.
AB - African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume contributes to the broader project of provincializing and decolonizing audience and internet studies.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Everyday-Media-Culture-in-Africa-Audiences-and-Users/Willems-Mano/p/book/9780367890285
U2 - 10.4324/9781315472775-16
DO - 10.4324/9781315472775-16
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781138202849
SN - 9780367890285
T3 - Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies
SP - 198
EP - 219
BT - Everyday media culture in Africa
A2 - Willems, Wendy
A2 - Mano, Winston
PB - Routledge
ER -