Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 2, 1st ed. 2020 Challenges and Opportunities
Coordonnateurs : Ndlela Martin N., Mano Winston
Chapter 1: Introduction - Social Media, Political Cultures and Elections in Africa Winston Mano & Martin Ndlela.- Chapter 2: Misogyny, Social Media and Electoral Democracy in Zimbabwe’s 2018 Elections Pauline Mateveke and Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro.- Chapter 3: Women and Election Activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign Florence Namasinga Selnes and Kristin Skare Orgeret.- Chapter 4: Discrimination against female politicians on social media: An analysis of tweets in the run-up to the July 2018 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe. Gibson Ncube and Gwatisira Yemurai.- Chapter 5: Young people, social media and political participation. The limits of discursive (in)civility in the Kenyan context, Martin Ndlela.- Chapter 6: Youth, elections and social media: Understanding the critical (di)stance between young people and political party messaging. Vanessa Malilaand Noko Pela.- Chapter 7: Social Media as New Source of Empowerment in Algeria - Laeed Zaghlami.- Chapter 8: Post digital dialogue and activism in the public sphere. Dalien René Benecke and Sonja Verwey.- Chapter 9: #ThisFlag: Social media and cyber-protests in Zimbabwe Shepherd Mpofu and Admire Mare.- Chapter 10: #Zuma Must Fall this February: Homophily on the echo chambers of political leaders’ twitter accounts Rofhiwa Mukhudwana.- Chapter 11: An Analysis of Newspapers’ Coverage of Hate Speech in Nigeria. Sunday Ogbonna and Achike, C. Okafo.- Chapter 12: A critical analysis of how transgressive social media images and memes portrayed dominant political discourses during Nigeria’s 2015 General Elections Chikezie E Uzuegbunam.- Chapter 13: Discourses on negative political advertising in South Africa: a social media reception analysis Siyasanga M Tyali & Rofhiwa F Mukhudwana.
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 at the University of Westminster, UK, 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.
Date de parution : 08-2021
Ouvrage de 274 p.
14.8x21 cm
Date de parution : 02-2020
Ouvrage de 274 p.
14.8x21 cm
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Mots-clés :
social media; African elections; political communication; democratisation; digital media