Social Media: The New Protest Drums in Southern Africa?

Mare, Admire

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“…In many African contexts where legacy media like newspapers and radio stations are owned and controlled by the state, digital media platforms have served as alternative outlets for the dissemination of news, political debate, and critique (Paterson 2013). In Zimbabwe, Facebook has provided users with more freedom to engage in political satire and offer alternative accounts of political developments (Mare 2014). The widespread penetration and use of mobile media in Africa have also provided users with a tool to engage more actively with mainstream news agendas.…”

Section: Opportunities For Public Knowledge: New Forms Of Journalism mentioning

confidence: 99%

Media and Communications*

Couldry¹,

Rodríguez²,

Bolin³

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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century

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her huge support in managing the drafting process and bringing together the final version (with her skill and professionalism, the task would have been impossible!); Guy Berger of UNESCO and Anita Gurumurthy of ITforChange for their excellent comments on an earlier draft, as well as all those who contributed through IPSP's public comments process; and Emma Christina Montaña for her excellent work on the Spanish translation of the chapter.

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Section: Opportunities For Public Knowledge: New Forms Of Journalism mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Couldry¹,

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Bolin³

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Rethinking Society for the 21st Century

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“…This proliferation has been reflected in a raft of scholarship that seeks to cognise the potential of new communicative technologies. A cursory look at the studies conducted demonstrates that most research has tended to look at the nexus of social media and elections, democratisation, political activism and protests (Mäkinen & Wangu Kuira, 2008;Mpofu, 2013;Smyth & Best, 2013;Mare, 2014Mare, , 2016Mhiripiri & Mutsvairo, 2014;Chitanana & Mutsvairo, 2019;Matsilele & Ruhanya, 2020;Mpofu & Matsilele, 2020;Mutsvairo & Ronning, 2020). What remains under-studied, with an exception of the few studies in the Western hemisphere, is the relationship between social media and political disruption in political hybrid systems where there are cosmetic freedoms and elements of dictatorship co-existing side by side like in the case of Zimbabwe.…”

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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa

Karam¹,

Mutsvairo²

2021

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This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora.The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to knowledge production about African political communication. In doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms of political communication that served to challenge imposed Western norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, and Ghana. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, media, and communication in Africa.

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“…Second, it is important that scholars eager to de-center the West (Curran & Park, 2000;Waisbord, 2019;Volkmer, 2002) avoid constructing a simplistic binary split between two homogenized categories, the 'West and the Rest' (Wang, 2010)-let alone linking this binary model with an absolute 'digital divide' (Curran, Fenton, & Freedman, 2012). Finally, researchers should be careful to avoid technocentric approaches, which position new communications technologies as driving certain kinds of change within journalism, without proper regard for the agency of local journalists (Mare, 2014) and the complex contexts within which they work (Gynnild, 2014).…”

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Data Journalism beyond Majority World Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

2019

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This commentary reflects on the state of research on data journalism and discusses future directions for this line of work. Drawing on theory in international development and postcolonial studies, we discuss three critical pitfalls that we encourage future scholarship in this area to avoid. These include using a linear model of progress, in which journalists in Majority World nations struggle to 'catch up' to their Minority World counterparts because of the 'obstacles' they face; reproducing a simplistic split between the 'West and the Rest', thus missing the complex interaction of structures operating at different levels; and failing to examine journalistic agency due to an overemphasis on the technical structuring of the 'tools' used in data journalism.We also encourage scholars to engage in more comparative work rather than single case studies; increase dialogic communication between scholarship produced in, or about, different parts of the world; and incorporate more diverse methodologies with the aim of building theory. More broadly, we advocate for greater critical reflection upon-if not the challenging of-our dominant modes of thought in order to build more nuanced frameworks for explaining the complex causes, and potentially mixed effects, of data journalism around the world.

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Social Media: The New Protest Drums in Southern Africa?

Cited by 29 publications

References 8 publications

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Media and Communications*

Decolonising Political Communication in Africa

Data Journalism beyond Majority World Countries: Challenges and Opportunities

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