Overview
The first book to thoroughly engage with the broad impacts of Western cyberculture and its neo-colonial impacts on Africa
Connects traditional forms of communication in Africa with the contemporary digitization of communication alongside other colonial, postcolonial, and neo-colonial movements
Addresses a wide variety of experiences and spaces that have been reformed by cyberculture and digital communication
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About this book
This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations  in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail’s Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa’s cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization and Cyberculture
Book Subtitle: An Afrocentric Perspective
Authors: Kehbuma Langmia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4
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) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-47583-7Published: 02 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83774-1Published: 29 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-47584-4Published: 20 December 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 136
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Media and Communication, African Culture, Culture and Technology, Digital/New Media, Globalization, African Politics