Online journalism in Africa : trends, practices and emerging cultures /
edited by Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker.
- New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
- x, 273 pages ; 24 cm.
- Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies ; 12 .
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.