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African Media Studies in the Digital Age – Wednesday May 24 2017

Come join us for an interdisciplinary workshop hosted by Stanford’s Center for African Studies on digital media in Africa. This daylong event brings together scholars investigating the role played by digital media in a range of political, economic, social and cultural processes across the continent.

This event is held in partnership with the 2017 annual conference of the International Communication Association, Taylor and Francis/African Journalism Studies, and the blog Africa is a Country.

Find out more about the participants and their papers below.

If you are interested in attending the workshop in part or in whole, contact the organizer Toussaint Nothias at tnothias@stanford.edu

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Program

Keynote (Open to the public):

“The social is political. Media, Protest and Change in Africa” (Herman Wasserman)

Papers:

“Digital Media are for Elites:” Framing and Using Digital Media for Political Campaigning in Rural Africa (Matthew Adeiza)
FM radio via mobile phones: Rethinking the logics of radio distribution in Ghana (Seyram Avle)
“Africa Rising”: The international news media and the reframing of the African continent as the ‘final investment frontier’ (Mel Bunce)
Commerce, creativity and youth participation on YouTube Morocco (Mohamed El Marzouki)
#TwitterPresidents (Sean Jacobs)
Linking Development (maendeleo) and mobile telephony in Marakwet Kenya (Leah Komen)
Engaging with China’s emerging media and soft power: adoration and resistance in Zimbabwe (Winston Mano)
On the politics of things: mobile social media, urban space and political communication in Zambia’s 2011 and 2016 elections (Wendy Willems)

To find out more, download the book of abstracts here: Book of Abstracts

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