This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual.
Wendy Willems is Assistant Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Associate and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is co-editor of Civic Agency in Africa: Arts of Resistance in the 21st Century.
Winston Mano is Director of the Africa Media Centre and Reader in Media and Communication Studies at the University of Westminster in London, UK and Editor of the Journal of African Media Studies. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the School of Communication at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
Foreword
Paddy Scannell
1. Decolonizing and provincializing audience and internet studies: contextual approaches from African vantage points
Wendy Willems and Winston Mano
2. Media culture in Africa? A practice-ethnographic approach
Jo Helle Valle
3. 'The African listener': state-controlled radio, subjectivity, and agency in colonial and post-colonial Zambia
Robert Heinze
4. Popular engagement with tabloid TV: a Zambian case study
Herman Wasserman and Loisa Mbatha
5. 'Our own WikiLeaks': popularity, moral panic and tabloid journalism in Zimbabwe
Admire Mare
6. Audience perceptions of radio stations and journalists in the Great Lakes region
Marie-Soleil Frère
7. Audience participation and BBC's digital quest in Nigeria
Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
8. 'Radio locked on @Citi973': Twitter use by FM radio listeners in Ghana
Seyram Avle
9. Mixing with MXit when you're 'mix': mobile phones and identity in a small South African town
Alette Schoon and Larry Strelitz
10. Brokers of belonging: elders and intermediaries in Kinshasa's mobile phone culture
Katrien Pype
11. Agency behind the veil: gender, digital media and being 'ninja' in Zanzibar
Thembi Mutch