Civic engagement, digital networks, and political reform in Africa / by Okoth Fred Mudhai.

• Part I. Introduction -- 1. General introduction: Civic challenge of ruling elite via new digital media in Africa -- Part II. The setting -- 2. Private-public sphere: civic engagement, new media and democracy theory -- 3. The "wave" and "spring" metaphors in networks' struggle for change -- 4. Civic engagement, the African state and political reform -- 5. Power and influence in the digital age: new challenges to state hegemony -- Part III. Continental trends and networks -- 6. Platforms and applications diffusion: civic engagement and ICT trends -- 7. Identity and issue networks: new media, politics of belonging and change -- Part IV. A tale of two countries -- Kenya and Zambia -- 8. La luta continua: transition and disillusionment in the "second liberation" and the "third republic" -- 9. Civic actors and the struggle for change: precursors to new social movements in Kenya and Zambia -- 10. Unmuzzling old dogs to bark anew far and wide -- 11. Perceptions of Kenyan and Zambian urban civic actors on their new media use in political realms -- Part V. Conclusion -- 12. Civic engagement, digital networks and political reform in an increasingly open digital media environment.

Ämnesord

Political participation  -- Technological innovations -- Africa. (LCSH)

Information technology  -- Political aspects -- Africa. (LCSH)

Communication in politics  -- Technological innovations -- Africa. (LCSH)

Africa  -- Politics and government -- 21st century. (LCSH)

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JQ36 (LCC)

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