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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and Processes
Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Part I: Economy
Chapter 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in Zambia
Wendy Willems
Chapter 2. Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in it?
Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-Valle
Part II: Gender and Social Relations
Chapter 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in Kinshasa
Katrien Pype
Chapter 4. Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth Programme
Nanna Schneidermann
Chapter 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through Education
Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Part III: Localities and New Media
Chapter 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town Suburb
Nanna Schneidermann
Chapter 7. From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari Village
Jo Helle-Valle
Afterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from Mauritius
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Index
Media Practices and Changing African Socialities
Non-media-centric Perspectives
Edited by Jo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-Mathisen
Afterword by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
250 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-78920-661-6 Hb Published (March 2020)
eISBN 978-1-78920-662-3 eBook