TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wasserman,Herman
TI  - Popular media, democracy and development in Africa
T2  - Internationalizing media studies
SN  - 9780415577939 (hbk.)
U1  - 302.23096 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Democratization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The popular media sphere : theoretical interventions. De-westernizing media theory to make room for African experience / FRANCIS NYAMNJOH -- Revisiting cultural imperialism and its critics / P. ERIC LOUW -- At the crossroads of the formal and popular : convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe / WENDY WILLEMS -- Theorising development and democracy through popular community media / Victor Ayedun-Aluma -- Talk radio, democracy and citizenship in (South) Africa / Tanja Bosch -- Popular media, politics and power : engaging with democracy and development. Popular music as journalism in Africa : issues and contexts / WINSTON MANO -- Street news : the role of posters in democratic participation in Ghana / AUDREY GADZEKPO -- If you rattle a snake, be prepared to be bitten? : popular culture, politics and the Kenyan news media / GEORGE OGOLA -- Post-Apartheid South African social movements on film / SEAN JACOBS -- Audiences, agency and media in everyday life. The amazing race in Burkina Faso / H. LESLIE STEEVES -- (South) African articulations of the ordinary, or, how popular print commodities (re)organize our lives / SONJA NARUNSKY-LADEN -- Popular TV programmes and audiences in Kinshasa / MARIE-SOLEIL FRÔRE -- New technologies as tools of empowerment : African youth and public sphere participation / LEVI OBIJIOFOR -- Identity and community between the local and the global. Transnational flows and local identities in Muslim Northern Nigerian films : from Dead Poets Society through Mohabbatein to So? / ABDALLA UBA ADAMU -- Local stories, global discussions. Websites, politics and identity in African contexts / INGE BRINKMAN ... [et al.] -- Survival of "radio culture" in a converged networked new media environment / OKOTH FRED MUDHAI -- Policing popular media in Africa / MONICA CHIBITA
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