Research Catalog

Title

Participatory politics and citizen journalism in a networked Africa : a connected continent / edited by Bruce Mutsvairo, Northumbria University, UK.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Supplementary Content

• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Details

Additional Authors

Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979-

Description

xvi, 291 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Citizen journalism > Political aspects > Africa
• Online journalism > Political aspects > Africa
• Social media > Political aspects > Africa
• Political participation > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- Digital technologies and the extractive sector: The New Wave of Citizen Journalism in Resource-Rich Countries / 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 "bottom-up" journalism and social activism in unequal societies: The case of Groundup 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 -- Citizen journalism and the Ebola outbreak 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 Seaga Shaw.

Call Number

Sc D 16-674

ISBN

• 9781137554499
• 1137554495

LCCN

2015025770

OCLC

917340457

Title

Participatory politics and citizen journalism in a networked Africa : a connected continent / edited by Bruce Mutsvairo, Northumbria University, UK.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Added Author

Mutsvairo, Bruce, 1979-

Research Call Number

Sc D 16-674