Internet Public Spheres, Civil Society Organisations and the State in the Zimbabwean Crisis: A Case Study of Kubatana.net’s e-newsletters

Mpofu, Mandlenkosi

doi:10.1080/23743670.2016.1256057

African Journalism Studies

2016

DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2016.1256057

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Internet Public Spheres, Civil Society Organisations and the State in the Zimbabwean Crisis: A Case Study of Kubatana.net’s e-newsletters

Mandlenkosi Mpofu

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On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle: Nationalist imaginations of Mthwakazi and its passions of semblance

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Social networking and the individuated privacy of the virtual space have emerged as new forms of conflating social identities and free speech for most subaltern communities. While it is clearly accepted that the notion of social networking within most African communities has always existed as part of oramedia (orality), which also gained more positive value from grapevine as a notch of communication, current trends in communication, coupled with the rise of new media have brought normative and pragmatic values in the latter day communication culture. One social networking group from Matebeleland (a region of historical complexities in Zimbabwe), the "Forum", will be used to show how the virtual sphere has revolutionised the Habermasian public sphere. The new social networking sites enable participants to gather and connect through 'Internet portals.' We posit that these different fora define the extent to which engagement and free speech are practiced leading to changes in people's worldviews. Online fora now range from different Facebook and Whatsapp groups, such as; Inhlamba Zesintu, Luveve Ikasi Lami, Abammeli Mthwakazi, Not-Everyone-is-Zimbabwean, Thina AbaMpofu, to websites like iNkundla.net, Youtube, and other vibrant platforms created through mailing lists and listserv, such as Forum.

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On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle: Nationalist imaginations of Mthwakazi and its passions of semblance

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2017

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From Kubatana to #ThisFlag: Trajectories of digital activism in Zimbabwe

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2020

Journal of Information Technology & Politics

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Internet Public Spheres, Civil Society Organisations and the State in the Zimbabwean Crisis: A Case Study of Kubatana.net’s e-newsletters

Cited by 2 publications

References 16 publications

On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle: Nationalist imaginations of Mthwakazi and its passions of semblance

On virtuality and the aesthetics of spectacle: Nationalist imaginations of Mthwakazi and its passions of semblance

From Kubatana to #ThisFlag: Trajectories of digital activism in Zimbabwe

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