WhatsApp and Everyday Life in West Africa: Beyond Fake News
Editat de Idayat Hassan, Jamie Hitchenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 oct 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781350257870
ISBN-10: 1350257877
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1350257877
Pagini: 208
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Caracteristici
Whilst there is a growing literature on its use in facilitating the spread of false information and the role it plays in influencing elections in the region, there has been little detailed study of the wider, more everyday impacts that the platform affects, touching on social organisation, economic opportunity, and learning.
Notă biografică
Idayat Hassan is Director of the Centre for Democracy and Development, an Abuja based policy, advocacy and research organisation with a focus on deepening democracy and development in West Africa. Idayat is a lawyer and has held fellowships in universities across Europe and America. Her interests span democracy, peace and security, transitional justice, and ICT4D across West Africa and her analysis is regularly sought by the BBC, Bloomberg and Voice of America.Jamie Hitchen is an independent researcher who focuses on politics in the social media age in West Africa. He co-authored a chapter on the use of WhatsApp in Sierra Leone's election to 'Social Media and Politics in Africa' (Zed Books) and has published research on Nigeria's WhatsApp Politics in the Journal of Democracy. He was previously policy researcher at Africa Research Institute and his analysis has been sought by leading international publications including The Economist, Financial Times, BBC and The Guardian. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Birmingham, UK.
Cuprins
Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTION: A NEW PLATFORM FOR OLD NETWORKS? WHATSAPP AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN WEST AFRICAIdayat Hassan and Jamie HitchenCHAPTER 1: WhatsApp and Political Messaging at the Periphery: Insights from Northern GhanaGabrielle Lynch, Ghadafi Saibu and Elena GadjanovaCHAPTER 2: WhatsApp, youth and politics in The Gambia: An analysis of 'Democratic Gambia'Sait Matty JawCHAPTER 3: WhatsApp political campaigns in NigeriaNwachukwu EgbunikeCHAPTER 4: Tailored to fit? WhatsApp marketing in Nigeria's fashion industryKolawole TalabiCHAPTER 5: "The Forum": A WhatsApp support group for health and social service providers during the Anglophone Crisis in CameroonKamila Pacholek, Madalina Prostean, Sarah Burris, Lynn Cockburn, Julius Nganji, Anya Nadege, and Louis MbibehCHAPTER 6: The dynamics of WhatsApp usage among elderly NigeriansTemitayo OlofinluaCHAPTER 7: New Media, Social Relationships and Communication Imperatives: A study of Christlove Fellowship Alumni WhatsApp groupsFeyisitan Ijimakinwa and Fortune AfatakpaCHAPTER 8: Sharing the gospel: How Nigeria's Catholic community is building a WhatsApp congregationPatrick EgwuCHAPTER 9: Amplifying female voices in northern Nigerian politics: The role of WhatsAppNa'ima Hafiz AbubakarCHAPTER 10: Reinventing the newspaper for the WhatsApp ageSimon Allison
Recenzii
There are a lot of platitudes about the role of end-to-end encrypted messaging services in society. Yet we know very little about how West Africans use these platforms. This exceptional book fills that gap, leveraging interviews and case studies to shed light on how WhatsApp is shaping politics, the media, trade, and associations. It should be required reading for anyone who wants to move beyond speculation and understand how people are actually using WhatsApp.
WhatsApp and Everyday life in West Africa is a rich source of material on all that is the power and danger of WhatsApp in Africa: how it is used and the impact of such uses, from the easy of spread of disinformation to democratizing the ability to communicate and engage with a wide audience. Hassan and Hitchen's book is a must have reference for activists, academics and civil society organizations working in human rights, civic engagement, democracy, elections, free press and disinformation, sustainable development. Now more than ever, in a time of ideological cleavages and rising authoritarianism as well as in a time of hope that we can reimagine what our societies can be, we must understand how to ensure the benefits of Whatsapp to our global and local communities, outweighs the disadvantages.
This book is a refreshing take on how WhatsApp is imbricated in the everyday lives of Africans. The contributors and editors complicate the situatedness of WhatsApp in the cultural, social, economic, religious and political imaginary of African communities. They highlight the silenced stories around digital media use bringing attention especially to how marginalized groups like women use the app to subvert patriarchal restrictions on their participation in the public sphere and navigate their everyday lives while mobilizing for change.
Hassan and Hitchen's edited collection of diverse accounts of WhatsApp use in West Africa provides a much-needed empirical perspective on social media outside of western contexts. It quickly moves beyond any arbitrary separation of on- and offline lives, to reveal how people's use of WhatsApp is bound up with the particularities of place and history. This book offers an important and grounded perspective into diverse experiences of WhatsApp in West Africa, a necessary starting point for a global understanding of digital platforms in everyday life.
WhatsApp and Everyday life in West Africa is a rich source of material on all that is the power and danger of WhatsApp in Africa: how it is used and the impact of such uses, from the easy of spread of disinformation to democratizing the ability to communicate and engage with a wide audience. Hassan and Hitchen's book is a must have reference for activists, academics and civil society organizations working in human rights, civic engagement, democracy, elections, free press and disinformation, sustainable development. Now more than ever, in a time of ideological cleavages and rising authoritarianism as well as in a time of hope that we can reimagine what our societies can be, we must understand how to ensure the benefits of Whatsapp to our global and local communities, outweighs the disadvantages.
This book is a refreshing take on how WhatsApp is imbricated in the everyday lives of Africans. The contributors and editors complicate the situatedness of WhatsApp in the cultural, social, economic, religious and political imaginary of African communities. They highlight the silenced stories around digital media use bringing attention especially to how marginalized groups like women use the app to subvert patriarchal restrictions on their participation in the public sphere and navigate their everyday lives while mobilizing for change.
Hassan and Hitchen's edited collection of diverse accounts of WhatsApp use in West Africa provides a much-needed empirical perspective on social media outside of western contexts. It quickly moves beyond any arbitrary separation of on- and offline lives, to reveal how people's use of WhatsApp is bound up with the particularities of place and history. This book offers an important and grounded perspective into diverse experiences of WhatsApp in West Africa, a necessary starting point for a global understanding of digital platforms in everyday life.