Overview
- Exhibits the increasing presence of social media within political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa
- Utilizes case studies from different countries in Africa to underline the widespread impact of new media ecologies on African politics
- Highlights how emerging forms of information distortion are undermining electoral democracy in Africa
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together fresh evidence and new theoretical frameworks in a unique analysis of the increasing role of social media in political campaigns and electoral processes across Africa. Supported by contemporary and historical cases studies, it engages with the main drives behind the various appropriations of social media for election campaigns, organization, and voter mobilization. Contributors in this volume delve into changing and complex aspects of social media, offering an appraisal of theoretical perspectives and examining fascinating case studies which social media use is redefining elections across Africa. Contributions show that new media ecologies are resulting in new policy regimes, user behaviors, and communication models that have implications for electoral processes. The book also provides preliminary analysis of emerging forms of algorithm-driven campaigns, fake news, information distortions and other methods that undermine electoral democracy in Africa.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Martin N. Ndlela is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Social Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, and Research Associate at the Department of Strategic Communication at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a co-editor of the Journal of African Media Studies.
Winston Mano is Reader and member of the Communication Research Institute’s Global Media Research Network. Mano is also the Principal Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 1
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Perspectives and Election Campaigns
Editors: Martin N. Ndlela, Winston Mano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30553-6
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 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30552-9Published: 03 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30555-0Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30553-6Published: 02 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 237
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Media, Media and Communication, African Culture, Political Communication