#Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenya’s digital “practices” and “individuation” as a (non)political act

Ogola, George

doi:10.1080/17531055.2018.1547263

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“…In recent years online media spaces have assumed significant communicative, cultural and political agency in Africa (Ogola, 2019). Platform media such as Facebook, Twitter and messaging apps such as WhatsApp have become critical political spaces for the creation, contestation and dissemination of public information.…”

Section: Politics and The Framing Of The Pandemicmentioning

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“…Mainstream media in the continent finds itself in a difficult space. Structurally, it operates in an environment in which its independence is fundamentally compromised primarily by its reliance on the state as its single largest advertiser (Ogola, 2019). There is only so far it can go in destabilising its affective relationship with the state.…”

Section: Health Journalism and Making Sense Of The Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis

Ogola

2020

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Africa faces a double Covid-19 crisis. At once it is a crisis of the pandemic, at another an information framing crisis. This article argues that public health messaging about the pandemic is complicated by a competing mix of framings by a number of actors including the state, the Church, civil society and the public, all fighting for legitimacy. The article explores some of these divergences in the interpretation of the disease and how they have given rise to multiple narratives about the pandemic, particularly online. It concludes that while different perspectives and or interpretations of a crisis is not necessarily wrong, where these detract from the crisis itself and become a contestation of individual and or sector interests, they birth a new crisis. This is the new crisis facing the continent in relation to the pandemic.

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Section: Politics and The Framing Of The Pandemicmentioning

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Section: Health Journalism and Making Sense Of The Pandemicmentioning

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Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis

Ogola

2020

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“…In the political scene in Kenya, citizens as followers of their governments have also utilized digital spaces to engage with their governments and leaders, hence 'voicing' their concerns (Hirschman 1970). According to Ogola (2019), Kenyans on Twitter (or 'KOT') have utilized Twitter as a social media platform to engage in deliberation of public discourse (in line with the Herbemasian concept of 'public sphere'). KOT's lively and sometimes 'fiery' engagement has been seen to have the potential to 'shift the conversation' (Nitsche 2019, para.…”

Section: Digitization In Kenya: Selected Casesmentioning

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“…Politically, digital platforms in Kenya, especially social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, You Tube and WhatsApp have given political followers power to bring about influence to their contexts in the country. The KOT case discussed by Ogola (2019) has given Kenyans a chance to not only interact, but also bring about meaningful influence to the leaders in the country and beyond. In 2015, as President Barrack Obama prepared to visit Kenya, CNN at one point referred to the country as a 'hotbed of terrorism', a phrase that incensed many Kenyans.…”

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No longer at ease: How digital organizational followers in Kenya are challenging contemporary leadership

Bett

Ngala

Kiruhi³

2019

Leadersh Educ Personal Interdiscip J

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The high internet penetration as well as the increasing digital platforms in Kenya has led to the transformation of many organizations in Kenya. Further, organizational followers are adopting digital technologies, and leveraging on digital platforms while working within organizations. Due to digitization, organizational followers are now collaborating, working flexibly (i.e. from home and other contexts away from work) and sharing content with people in different geographical locations. Consequently, many followers are influencing their organizational leaders. The digital transformation in the country, and among workers, suggest that organizational leaders should develop effective workable strategies and ensure they have conducive cultures that are in tandem with the digital transformation in place. This paper, based on Social Impact Theory (SIT) focuses on digitized organizational followers and their effect on firm leaders within Kenya.

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“…Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 14(1), 66-80. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16997/wpcc.305 theorise the African public sphere (Akinbobola, 2015) while others have sought to scrutinise the impact of Twitter and Facebook-led online activism in Africa (See Ogola, 2019;Mutsvairo, 2018;Bosch and Mutsvairo, 2017;Mutsvairo, 2016a;Mutsvairo 2013a;Mutsvairo, 2016b). More recently a special issue edited by Srinivasan, Diepeveen and Karekwaivanane (2019, p.13) made an attempt to understand 'the idea of publics as both a heuristic means as well as an object of study for coming to grips with the nature and significance of burgeoning new communicative practices in Africa in a digital age.…”

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The Deferred ‘Democracy Dividend’ of Citizen Journalism and Social Media: Perils, Promises and Prospects from the Zimbabwean Experience

Chitanana¹,

Mutsvairo²

2019

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture

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The efficacy of digital media on politics, and society at large, has long been a subject of intense scholarly debate. This paper examines the democratisation potential of social media within Zimbabwe's historically repressive political environment. Since the early 2000s, technological determinists in Zimbabwe saw citizen journalism and social media as a 'game-changer' in propping up a democratic project against the ruling regime. Two decades later, and as the country grapples with governance challenges, the prospects for meaningful political participation enabled by social media have remained elusive. The current study uses a contextual analytic lens informed by critical political economy of media and broader media effects theoretical concepts to probe the political impact of social media activism. Social media are technological tools whose role in society is contingent on human agency. While Zimbabwe has had significant protests employing social and digital media, their political impact, this paper argues, should not be overstated. Deterministic views have tended to create solutionist approaches to social media, undermining a nuanced understanding of their transformative potential.

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#Whatwouldmagufulido? Kenya’s digital “practices” and “individuation” as a (non)political act

Cited by 20 publications

References 25 publications

Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis

Africa and the Covid-19 Information Framing Crisis

No longer at ease: How digital organizational followers in Kenya are challenging contemporary leadership

The Deferred ‘Democracy Dividend’ of Citizen Journalism and Social Media: Perils, Promises and Prospects from the Zimbabwean Experience

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