Introduction: New Media and Democracy in Africa—A Critical Interjection

Banda, Fackson; Mudhai, Okoth Fred; Tettey, Wisdom J.

doi:10.1057/9780230621756_1

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“…This way, the digital media make possible the interaction among people, the sharing of news and more speed, and put the information at a better reach. However, it is also important to have in mind that those media also help political groups reach private benefits, before collective goals (Banda et al, 2009).…”

Section: Cyberactivism and Digital Mediamentioning

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Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Cavalcanti

Bringel

Costa

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Journal of Politics in Latin America

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To understand the relevance of the new media in the formation of the indignation nets, this text, of exploratory stamp, debates the digital activism in contemporary Brazil . Methodologically, we will make a discussion on cyberactivism, digital media, and national pressure groups starting from two examples, Movimento Brasil Livre (The Free Brazil Movement) and Vem pra Rua (Come to The Street movement) – these are key movements in the organisation of the big anti-government mobilisation that took place in 2015–2016 in Brazil. The theme is important because it embraces current and future challenges of the digital activism, once that this field faced significant changes in the last decades, with the development of interactive media and the technological convergence.

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Section: Cyberactivism and Digital Mediamentioning

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Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Cavalcanti

Bringel

Costa

et al. 2019

Journal of Politics in Latin America

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“…Between 2014 and 2018, I documented discourse on Africa-themed podcasts on these platforms, many of which were produced by African-emigres living abroad in North America or the United Kingdom. Diaspora-based podcasters in particular have been among the earliest adopters of this format throughout the global African mediascape—a multivalent public sphere, centered on African audiences, but whose producers and consumers may live within or outside the continent (Banda et al, 2009; Royston, 2017). In this article, I argue that these techniques use digital audio in ways that extend Walter Ong’s notion of “second orality” (1982) into Africa’s media cultures.…”

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Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape

Royston

2021

New Media & Society

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While podcasts as a storytelling media have exploded in popularity in the West since 2014, the uptake and consumption of this sonic new media was relatively slow in Africa until recently. This article explores amateur and start-up entrepreneurship podcasts that came to dominate the African mediascape during the medium’s coming of age moment between 2014 and 2018. I extend Walter Ong’s observation that broadcast and electronic media recreate the experience of oral performance, to show how the oral and aural dimensions of podcasting represent a set of approaches that can be described as new orality. This article also draws connections and distinctions between what I term the “dialogic schema” of African tech podcasts and “traditional” forms of narrative storytelling in African public cultures, as well as the emerging forms of mobile digital practices that, like podcasting, challenge easy distinctions between written and oral and literacy.

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“…As old questions arise around access, inequality, power and the quality of information in new media, African scholars are increasingly calling for ' a more critical rethink of the social and political impact of new technologies on the African polity' (Banda, Mudhai, and Tettey 2009). Yet, when it comes to the impact of technology on African journalism, empirical research is quite scarce, and many of the attempts to theorize on this topic are still characterized by excessive optimism about the possibilities presented by technology.…”

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Journalism from the ‘Silicon Savannah’: The Vexed Relationship Between Nairobi’s Newsmakers and its ICT4D Community

Benequista¹

2015

Stability: International Journal of Security &Amp; Development

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Introduction: New Media and Democracy in Africa—A Critical Interjection

Cited by 16 publications

References 10 publications

Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Digital Activism and Indignation Nets in Brazil: The Pressure Groups

Podcasts and new orality in the African mediascape

Journalism from the ‘Silicon Savannah’: The Vexed Relationship Between Nairobi’s Newsmakers and its ICT4D Community

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