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Online journalism in Africa : trends, practices and emerging cultures / edited by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12Publication details: New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.Description: x, 273 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780415503747 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781138689190
  • 9780203382530 (ebk. )
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 076 23
LOC classification:
  • PN4784.O62 O55 2014
Contents:
Foreword / by Stuart Allan -- Introduction / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker -- Online vs. traditional journalism practice. Back to the future: re-invigorating the "newsroom genre" to study social media use in developing contexts / Marenet Jordann -- The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges / Johanna Mavhungu and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Converging technologies, converging spaces, converging practices: the shaping of digital cultures and practices on radio / Last Moyo -- Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the "social media age": emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Ethics and regulation. Online journalism under pressure: an Ethiopian account / Terje S. Skjerdal -- The use of social media as news sources by South African political journalists / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Nathalie Hyde-Clarke -- Online journalism and politics. Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya / Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Online journalism, citizen participation and engagement in Egypt / Ahmed El Gody -- Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: a critical analysis / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn -- J-blogging and the "agenda cutting" phenomena in Egypt -- Nagwa Abdel Salam Fahmy -- Consumption and networking online news media consumption cultures among Zimbabwean citizens: "home and away" / Tendai Chari -- The Internet, diasporic media and online journalism in West Africa / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u -- "Our listeners would rather call than post messages on Facebook": new media and community radio in Kenya / George Ogola -- Online forums: how the voices of readers are reshaping the sphere of public debate in Burkina Faso / Marie-Soleil Frere -- Epilogue / by Chris Paterson.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Stuart Allan -- Introduction / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker -- Online vs. traditional journalism practice. Back to the future: re-invigorating the "newsroom genre" to study social media use in developing contexts / Marenet Jordann -- The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges / Johanna Mavhungu and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Converging technologies, converging spaces, converging practices: the shaping of digital cultures and practices on radio / Last Moyo -- Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the "social media age": emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara -- Ethics and regulation. Online journalism under pressure: an Ethiopian account / Terje S. Skjerdal -- The use of social media as news sources by South African political journalists / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Nathalie Hyde-Clarke -- Online journalism and politics. Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya / Okoth Fred Mudhai -- Online journalism, citizen participation and engagement in Egypt / Ahmed El Gody -- Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: a critical analysis / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn -- J-blogging and the "agenda cutting" phenomena in Egypt -- Nagwa Abdel Salam Fahmy -- Consumption and networking online news media consumption cultures among Zimbabwean citizens: "home and away" / Tendai Chari -- The Internet, diasporic media and online journalism in West Africa / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u -- "Our listeners would rather call than post messages on Facebook": new media and community radio in Kenya / George Ogola -- Online forums: how the voices of readers are reshaping the sphere of public debate in Burkina Faso / Marie-Soleil Frere -- Epilogue / by Chris Paterson.

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