Overview
Brings together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean to provide a sustained and rigorous exploration of media, culture, and technology in diverse countries of the Global South
Covers diverse forms of media--including print journalism, broadcast radio and television, digital media, popular music, and video games--in a range of national and cultural contexts
Pays particular attention to the role of media and technology in the experiences of disadvantaged groups, including women and indigenous communities
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Contextualizing Research and Technology
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Digital Strategies and Transitions
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Reforming Media Practices
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Challenging States and Corporations
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About this book
This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.
Reviews
"This book is a unique, rich and timely contribution to the growing literature in communication and media studies, that represents a de-colonial turn in the field. This de-colonial turn is characterised by a conscious and deliberate adoption of critical analytical approaches that critique the dominant paradigms of the Global North. The book is timely because of the focus on digital communication, discourses and practices at a time globally of rapid change and disruptions. The book privileges and creates spaces for scholars from the Global South - Africa and the Caribbean - which share histories and living legacies of colonial domination and subjugation. The book is a valuable addition to traditions of intellectual reflection that rethink historical and contemporary developments in communication by centering media practices, culture and technology."
- Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice Chancellor, University of Pretoria, South Africa
"The editors have put together an intellectually stimulating and varied collection that re-imagines and analyses digital innovation, culture and media practices in 12 countries in Africa and the Caribbean. This volume provides fresh insights into the thinking of scholars from the South on the unfolding ICT revolution and associated professional practices. The volume compels us to examine ICT’s pervasive impact on all aspects of media and national life. The contributors insist that countries in the South cannot simply accept these profound global technological changes, but must think and re-imagine their own landscapes and become creative in the application of development solutions. This is urgent especially in light of the pressing social and economic challenges faced by countries in the South and the need to dismantle the dominant colonial heritage and create new, decolonized societies.The essays discuss, among other issues, the new uses of digital media, the challenges faced by traditional media such as newspapers, radio and television, and the adaptation of hip hop and reggae culture by young people to express fresh aspirations for freedom. The collection is bold in advancing discussion of ‘smart technology, emerging robotics, machine learning and neural networks,’ and provides the basis for a framework to further deepen the discussion in the countries of the South with implications for new directions in policy-making by governments, businesses and community networks."
- Professor Rupert Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Political Thought, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Hopeton S. Dunn is Professor of Communications Policy and Digital Media, based at University of Botswana, Botswana. He is the former Director of the Caribbean School of Media and Communication, The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Dumisani Moyo is Professor of Communication and Vice Dean, Academic, at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
William O. Lesitaokana (PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Head at the Department of Media Studies at the University of Botswana, Botswana.
Shanade Bianca Barnabas (PhD) is Senior Lecturer and Head at the Department of Communication Studies, School of Communication, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean
Book Subtitle: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Editors: Hopeton S. Dunn, Dumisani Moyo, William O. Lesitaokana, Shanade Bianca Barnabas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54169-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54168-2Published: 31 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-54171-2Published: 31 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-54169-9Published: 30 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 381
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, African Culture, Cultural Studies