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001 2008043027
003 DLC
005 20090304110553.0
008 080930s2009 nyu b 000 0 eng
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020 $a9780230614864 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHN780.Z9$bI5625 2009
082 00 $a306.2096/090511$222
245 00 $aAfrican media and the digital public sphere /$cedited by Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, and Fackson Banda.
260 $aNew York City, NY :$bPalgrave-Macmillan,$c2009.
263 $a0905
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aPalgrave Macmillan series in international political communication
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aIntroduction : new media and democracy in Africa : a critical interjection / Fackson Banda, Wisdom Tettey and Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Implications for Africa of E-Gov challenges for giants South Africa and Nigeria / Okoth Fred Mudhai -- "Misclick" on democracy : new media use by key political parties in Kenya's disputed December 2007 presidential election / George Nyabuga and Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Repression, propaganda and digital resistance : new media and democracy in Zimbabwe / Last Moyo -- Democractic process, civic consciousness and the Internet in francophone Africa / Marie-soleil Frere and Alain Kiyindou -- Use of the internet by NGOs to promote government accountability : the case of Egypt / Khayrat Ayyad -- ICTization beyond urban male elites : issues of gender equality and empowerment / Kutoma J. Wakunuma-Zojer and Patricia K. Litho -- ICTs, youths and the politics of participation in rural Uganda / Carol Azungi Dralega -- Transnationalism, the African diaspora and the deterritorialized politics of the Internet / Wisdom Tettey -- Globalization from below? ICTs and democratic development in the project Indymedia Africa? / Fabian Frenzel and Sian Sullivan -- New public spheres : The digital age and big brother / Keyan G. Tomaselli and Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli -- Popular music, new media and the digital public sphere in Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Nigeria / George Ogola, Anne Schumann and Michael Olatunji -- News media use of ICTs amidst war, violence and political turmoil in the Central African Great Lakes / Marie-Soleil Frere -- Conflict coverage in a digital age : challenges for African media / Rune Ottosen and Okoth Fred Mudhai.
650 0 $aInformation society$zAfrica.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zAfrica.
650 0 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aInformation technology$xPolitical aspects$zAfrica.
700 1 $aMudhai, Okoth Fred.
700 1 $aTettey, Wisdom.
700 1 $aBanda, Fackson.