Participatory politics and citizen journalism in a networked Africa : a connected continent /: a connected continent. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bruce Mutsvairo, Northumbria University, UK.
• Editors: Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979-
• Contents: Recapturing Citizen Journalism : Processes and Patterns / Bruce Mutsvairo -- Networked Social Journalism : Media, Citizen Participation, and Democracy in Nigeria / Farooq A. Kperogi -- Crossing The Taboo Lines : Citizen Journalism Ethics In Political Crisis Setting / Last Moyo -- The positioning of citizen-influenced Radio in the Battle for the Control of Minds / Everette Ndlovu -- Why the Arab Spring never came to Ethiopia / Terje Skjerdal -- Citizen Journalism at Crossroads : Mediated political agency and duress in Central Africa / Mirjam de Bruijn -- South African Arab Spring or democracy to come? : An Analysis of South African Journalists' Engagement with Citizenry through Twitter / Glenda Daniels -- Citizen journalism and the African extractives sector / Erika Rodrigues and Anya Schiffrin -- Crowd-funding : a harambee for African journalism? / Kristin Skare Orgeret -- Politics of passion and the pursuit for propaganda in Zimbabwe's state media : A study of case of The Herald / Bruce Mutsvairo -- Beyond blind optimism : The case of citizen journalism in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe / Cleophas Muneri -- Political participation, alternative media and citizen journalism in Lusophone Africa / Susana Salgado -- Between citizen journalism and social activism in unequal societies : The case of Groundp and Daily Sun in South Africa / Wallace Chuma -- Citizen journalism and national politics in Zimbabwe : The case of the 2008 and 2013 elections / Joseph Mujere and Wesley Mwatwara -- Citizen journalism in Kenya as a contested "third space" / George Ogola and Mike Owuor -- The Ebola Virus and Citizen Journalism in Africa / Winston Mano and Viola C. Milton -- From citizen journalism to human rights journalism : Framing the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone on Facebook / Ibrahim Shaw.
• Publisher Details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (308 pages)
• Subjects: 079/.6; Citizen journalism -- Political aspects -- Africa; Online journalism -- Political aspects -- Africa; Social media -- Political aspects -- Africa; Political participation -- Africa; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism; Online journalism -- Political aspects; Political participation; Social media -- Political aspects; Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Developing Countries; Social Science -- Media Studies; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Journalism; Cultural studies; Development studies; Media studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Press & journalism; Communication; Economic development; Ethnology; Africa; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137554505; 1137554509; 9781349568352
• Related ISBNs: 134956835X; 9781349568352; 9781137554499
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
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