Publics in Africa in a Digital Age

This book brings together a rich set of empirically grounded analyses of the diverse digital spaces and networks of communication springing up across the Eastern African region.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Rethinking publics in Africa in a digital age
Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen and George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
2. From baraza to cyberbaraza: interrogating publics in the context of the 2015 Zanzibar electoral impasse
Irene Brunotti
3. Knowledge and legitimacy: the fragility of digital mobilisation in Sudan
Siri Lamoureaux and Timm Sureau
4. 'Tapanduka Zvamuchese': Facebook, 'unruly publics', and Zimbabwean politics
George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane
5. Social diary and news production: authorship and readership in social media during Kenya's 2007 elections
Inge Brinkman
6. Kuchu activism, queer sex-work and "lavender marriages," in Uganda's virtual LGBT safe(r) spaces
Austin Bryan
7. Bringing The Daily Mail to Africa: entertainment websites and the creation of a digital youth public in post-genocide Rwanda
Andrea Mariko Grant
8. #Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenya's digital "practices" and "individuation" as a (non)political act
George Ogola
9. News media and political contestation in the Somali territories: defining the parameters of a transnational digital public
Peter Chonka
10. The limits of publicity: Facebook and transformations of a public realm in Mombasa, Kenya
Stephanie Diepeveen
11. WhatsApp as 'digital publics': the Nakuru Analysts and the evolution of participation in county governance in Kenya
Duncan Omanga
12. A tale of two publics? Online politics in Ethiopia's elections
Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau and Gerawork Aynekulu

About the author

Sharath Srinivasan is Co-Director of the University of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights, David and Elaine Potter Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Stephanie Diepeveen is Research Associate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.
George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane is lecturer in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Summary

This book brings together a rich set of empirically grounded analyses of the diverse digital spaces and networks of communication springing up across the Eastern African region.

Product details

• Authors: Sharath (University of Cambridge) Diep Srinivasan
• Assisted by: Stephanie Diepeveen (Editor), George Hamandishe Karekwaivanane (Editor), Sharath Srinivasan (Editor), Srinivasan Sharath (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.09.2023
• EAN: 9780367715274
• ISBN: 978-0-367-71527-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Media Studies, Cultural Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, LAW / Computer & Internet, East Africa, Political structure & processes, Political Geography, Political campaigning & advertising, Internet: general works, Political campaigning and advertising, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Regional Geography, Political structure and processes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies