Online journalism in Africa : trends, practices and emerging cultures /

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Imprint:New York : Routledge, 2014.
Description:x, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12
Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9855493
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Other authors / contributors:Mabweazara, Hayes Mawindi, 1977- editor of compilation.
Mudhai, Okoth Fred editor of compilation.
Whittaker, Jason, 1969- editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780415503747 (alk. paper)
0415503744 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / by Stuart Allan
  • Introduction / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker
  • Online vs. traditional journalism practice. Back to the future: re-invigorating the "newsroom genre" to study social media use in developing contexts / Marenet Jordann
  • The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges / Johanna Mavhungu and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
  • Converging technologies, converging spaces, converging practices: the shaping of digital cultures and practices on radio / Last Moyo
  • Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the "social media age": emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
  • Ethics and regulation. Online journalism under pressure: an Ethiopian account / Terje S. Skjerdal
  • The use of social media as news sources by South African political journalists / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Nathalie Hyde-Clarke
  • Online journalism and politics. Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya / Okoth Fred Mudhai
  • Online journalism, citizen participation and engagement in Egypt / Ahmed El Gody
  • Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: a critical analysis / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn
  • J-blogging and the "agenda cutting" phenomena in Egypt
  • Nagwa Abdel Salam Fahmy
  • Consumption and networking online news media consumption cultures among Zimbabwean citizens: "home and away" / Tendai Chari
  • The Internet, diasporic media and online journalism in West Africa / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u
  • "Our listeners would rather call than post messages on Facebook": new media and community radio in Kenya / George Ogola
  • Online forums: how the voices of readers are reshaping the sphere of public debate in Burkina Faso / Marie-Soleil Frere
  • Epilogue / by Chris Paterson.