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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

2009 Social Science
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Release : 2009
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa by : Mirjam de Bruijn

Download or read book Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa written by Mirjam de Bruijn. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'We cannot imagine life now without a mobile phone' is a frequent comment when Africans are asked about mobile phones. They have become part and parcel of the communication landscape in many urban and rural areas of Africa and the growth of mobile telephony is amazing: from 1 in 50 people being users in 2000 to 1 in 3 in 2008. Such growth is impressive but it does not even begin to tell us about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming or are being transformed by society in Africa. This volume ventures into such appropriation and mutual shaping. Rich in theoretical innovation and empirical substantiation, it brings together reflections on developments around the mobile phone by scholars of six African countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Mali, Sudan and Tanzania) who explore the economic, social and cultural contexts in which the mobile phone is being adopted, adapted and harnessed by mobile Africa.

Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

2013 Social Science
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Release : 2013
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa by : Mirjam Elisabeth Bruijn

Download or read book Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa written by Mirjam Elisabeth Bruijn. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marginality does not mean isolation. In Africa where people are permanently on the move in search, inter alia, of a 'better elsewhere', marginality means disconnection to obvious possibilities and the invisibility of the myriad connections that make life possible for the ordinarily sidestepped. This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the 'global shadows' of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa's mobile margins? To what extent is the freedom associated with new Information and Communication Technologies reality or disillusion for people dwelling in the margins? Are ordinary Africans increasingly Side@Ways? How social are these emergent Side@Ways? Contributions to answering these and related questions are harvested from ethnographic insights by team members of the WOTRO funded 'Mobile Africa revisited' research programme hosted by the African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Me and My Cell Phone

2012 Computers
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Release : 2012
Genre : Computers
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Book Synopsis Me and My Cell Phone by : Crystal Powell

Download or read book Me and My Cell Phone written by Crystal Powell. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kindled by her own intimate history with her cell phone and a growing curiosity about information and communication technologies in general, Powell discusses her thoughts, reactions to and interpretations of some of the literature on these technologies. She draws on and reviews contributions by some authors on the social shaping of ICTs and social media to offer a more complete understanding of technology in relation to those who use and are used by it. From publisher description.

Message in a Mobile

2011-11-01 Social Science
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Release : 2011-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Message in a Mobile by : Siri Lamoureaux

Download or read book Message in a Mobile written by Siri Lamoureaux. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed, meticulous ethnographic study on mobile phone use among Nuba students at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, distinguishes itself from other studies by taking a focused look at the linguistic content of mobile phone interactions via text-messaging, portraying it as a site for the expression of personalized and affective language. While men and women appear to be equally aggressive consumers and producers of text-message poetry, women are formally discouraged in using the phone for relations that go beyond the publicly acceptable norms of keeping in touch and making arrangements. Nonetheless, women use it for such purposes and many manage it discreetly, showing how this technology can serve to subvert discursive norms on gender and marriage. The mobile phone in Sudan enhances individual autonomy over interactions, making possible the extension and creation of social spaces. It simultaneously enlarges private space and trespasses into public space. Poetic themes and language, previously limited to elite producers those both more literate and who had control over mass media domains, radio and newspapers are exposed to anonymous recipients, who draw from, copy or forward them in continuous circulation, thereby staking a claim in the public sphere. Similarly, the mobile phone serves as a site for the exercise of several layers of identity in negotiation, and reflects or creates alternative identities and the contestation of existing discourses, communities in physical space and notions of belonging.

Everyday Media Culture in Africa

2016-11-10 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Release : 2016-11-10
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Everyday Media Culture in Africa by : Wendy Willems

Download or read book Everyday Media Culture in Africa written by Wendy Willems. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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