Full Description
This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
Contents
1. Recapturing Citizen Journalism: Processes and Patterns; Bruce Mutsvairo PART I: RECAPTURING PRODUCTION PRACTICES 2. Networked Social Journalism: Media, Citizen Participation, and Democracy in Nigeria; Farooq A. Kperogi 3. Crossing The Taboo Lines: Citizen Journalism Ethics In Political Crisis Setting; Last Moyo 4. The positioning of citizen-influenced Radio in the Battle for the Control of Minds; Everette Ndlovu 5. Why the Arab Spring never came to Ethiopia, Terje Skjerdal 6. Citizen Journalism at Crossroads: Mediated political agency and duress in Central Africa; Mirjam de Bruijn PART II: PROSPECTS, PROMISES AND PITFALLS 7. South African Arab Spring or democracy to come? An Analysis of South African Journalists' Engagement with Citizenry through Twitter; Glenda Daniels 8. Citizen journalism and the African extractives sector; Erika Rodrigues and Anya Schiffrin 9. Crowd-funding- a harambee for African journalism?; Kristin Skare Orgeret 10. Politics of passion and the pursuit for propaganda in Zimbabwe's state media. A study of case of The Herald; Bruce Mutsvairo 11.Beyond blind optimism: The case of citizen journalism in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe; Cleophas Muneri PART III: PERCEPTIONS AND CRITIQUES 12. Political participation, alternative media and citizen journalism in Lusophone Africa; Susana Salgado 13. Between 'Bottom-Up' Journalism and Social Activism in Unequal Societies: The Case of GroundUP in South Africa; Wallace Chuma 14.Citizen journalism and national politics in Zimbabwe: The case of the 2008 and 2013 elections; Joseph Mujere and Wesley Mwatwara 15. Citizen journalism in Kenya as a contested 'third space'; George Ogola and Mike Owuor 16. The Ebola Virus and Citizen Journalism in Africa; Winston Mano and Viola C Milton 17. From citizen journalism to human rights journalism: Framing the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone on Facebook; Ibrahim Shaw
