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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
social sciences
Mobile phones, popular media, and everyday African democracy: Transmissions and transgressions
Popular Communication, Volume 9, No. 2, Year 2011
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The effectiveness of new media technologies, including mobile phones, to facilitate political participation and create social change has long been contested. Recent events in countries such as Mozambique, Iran, Tunisia, and Egypt have again raised questions about the role new media technologies can play to create alternative public spheres and mobilize for social action. In the African context, where access to new media technologies is marked by big divides, the widespread uptake of mobile phones has led to renewed optimism about the potential they hold for stimulating political participation and widening democratic debate. This article examines various approaches to the relation between mobile phones and participatory democracy, and argues that mobile phones do not only transmit political information needed for rational deliberation in the public sphere, but also transgress cultural and social borders and hierarchies in the way they refashion identities and create informal economies and communicative networks. © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Authors & Co-Authors
Wasserman, Herman
South Africa, Grahamstown
Rhodes University
Statistics
Citations: 126
Authors: 1
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1080/15405702.2011.562097
ISSN:
15405702
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Locations
Egypt
Mozambique
Tunisia