Mutsvairo, Bruce
The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Part I. Media and Communication Studies in Decolonial, Postcolonial and Protest Contexts
1. If I were a Carpenter: Reframing Debates in Media and Communication Research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo
2. Can the Subaltern Think? The Decolonial Turn in Communication Research in Africa
Last Moyo, Bruce Mutsvairo
3. Decolonising the Humanities: A Smash-and-Grab Approach
Colin Chasi
4. Decolonising Communication Studies: Advancing the Discipline Through Fermenting Participation Studies
Colin Chasi, Ylva Rodny-Gumede
5. Post-Coloniality and Path Dependency: Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa
Christian Agbobli, Marie-Soleil Frère
6. Researching and Teaching African Media Studies from the “Center”: Challenges and Opportunities for Epistemic Resistance
Toussaint Nothias
7. ‘An-Other’-Centred Film Curricula: Decolonising Film Studies in Africa
Beschara Karam
Part II. Conceptualizing and Contextualizing: Lessons and Limitations
8. The Four-Leafed Clover: Political Economy as a Method of Analysis
Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
9. Taking the Spy Machine South: Communications Surveillance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Jane Duncan
10. Bridging Critical and Administrative Research Paradigms in the Interest of a Social and Politically Engaged African Research Agenda
Ylva Rodny-Gumede
11. Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes
Susana Salgado
12. The Social is Political: Media, Protest and Change as a Challenge to African Media Research
Herman Wasserman
13. Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below
Mirjam Bruijn, Inge Brinkman
Part III. Cross-disciplinary Approaches in the Digital Age
14. “The Devil is in the Rumba Text.” Commenting on Digital Depth
Katrien Pype
15. The Technopolitics of Communication Technologies in Africa
Iginio Gagliardone
16. Contextualizing the Culture of Exclusion in the Diasporic Media Activity
Everette Ndlovu
17. Law and Innovation in the Somali Territories
Nicole Stremlau
Part IV. New and Old Media: Perspectives, Methodologies, Developments and Ethics
18. Terrorists and Social Media Messages: A Critical Analysis of Boko Haram’s Messages and Messaging Techniques
Chris Wolumati Ogbondah, Pita Ogaba Agbese
19. Gender in African Media Studies
Kristin Skare Orgeret
20. Mono-Method Research Approach and Scholar–Policy Disengagement in Nigerian Communication Research
Ayobami Ojebode, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Oyewole Adekunle Oladapo, Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele
21. Ubuntu and the Communication–Power Nexus
Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian
22. Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research
Suzanne Temwa Gondwe Harris
23. Rethinking Media Research in Africa
Tanja Bosch
24. This Hard Place and that Hard Terrain: Emerging Perspectives on Media and Cultural Studies on or in Zimbabwe
Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri
25. BBC and African Audience: Insights from Ethnography
Muhammed Musa
26. For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis
Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u
Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Media and Communication, African Culture, Journalism and Broadcasting
- Editor
- Mutsvairo, Bruce
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2018
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 29 pages
- Category
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9783319704432
- Printed ISBN
- 978-3-319-70442-5