Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa

<p>Part I: Conceptualizing Political Communication in the Digital Age.- 1. Key developments in Political Communications in Africa; Bruce Mutsvairo & Beschara Karam.- 2. Split: missing the master signifier in the role of the media in a democracy: the tension between the ANC and the media in South Africa; Glenda Daniels.- 3. Hashtags: #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and the Cultural Politics of a Meme Event; Pier Paulo Frassinelli.- 4. The voice of the voiceless? The emergence of online radical discourses in South Africa; Lorenzo Dalvit.- 5. Agenda-Setting in Political Communication in the 2012 Presidential Runoff Elections in Sierra Leone: Change or Continuity in the Digital Age?; Ibrahim Shaw.- Part II: Emergent Narratives: Complex and Contradictory Attitudes Between Media and Politics.- 6. Friends or Foes? Political Communication and the NRM Government’s equivocal Relationship with Media Freedom in Uganda; Monica Chibita.-7. Intergenerational Political Change: Evolving Attitudes aboutMedia and Press Freedom among Zambian Parliamentarians- Twange Kasoma and Gregory Pitts.- 8. Allies or Adversaries? : Exploring the uneasy relationship between the Jubilee government and Kenya’s media; Samuel Kamau.- 9. Communicating politics and national identity: the case of Mozambique Gisela Gonçalves, & Stelia Neta.- Part III Online and Offline Mapping of Interactive Politics and Media.- 10.  Digital media and political citizenship: Facebook and politics in South Africa; Tanja Bosch.- 11.  Framing the Debate on ‘Kagame III’ in Rwanda’s Print Media; Margaret Jjuuko.- 12.  Us versus them: Exploring ethno-nationalist contestations in Nigerian political communication; Mercy Ette.- 13.  Voices from below and above: Social networking sites, politics and democracy in crisis Zimbabwe; Mandlenkosi  Mpofu.- 14.  Romancing the media: A critical interrogation of political communication in presidential elections in Kenya; George Nyabuga,  & Wilson Ugangu.- Part IV  Local Politics in a Globalized World.- 15.  Political Party Advertising and Electoral Politics in Zimbabwe:  Mapping Contours of ‘Glocalization’ in an Emerging Political Communication Culture; Tendai Chari.- 16.  Interviews with Ivoirian Political Journalists: A Political Analysis of French Media Coverage and Influence During Cote d’Ivoire’s 2010-2011 Civil War; Jeslyn Lemke.- 17.  Political Communication in Ghana: Evolving Trends and Implications for National Development; Africanus L. Diedong.</p><p></p>