New Technologies in Developing Societies: From Theory to Practice

✍ Scribed by Levi Obijiofor (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 308
Series: Palgrave Studies in Communication for Social Change
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-18
New Technologies and the Socioeconomic Development of Africa....Pages 19-50
Public Service Broadcasting for Economic Growth and Language Development....Pages 51-80
Indigenous Knowledge and Intellectual Property Rights in a New Age....Pages 81-104
The African Public Sphere in the Electronic Era....Pages 105-130
Changing Technologies and the Changing Role of Citizens....Pages 131-159
Tradition Versus Modernity in HIV/AIDS Prevention....Pages 160-190
Ethnographic Research in ‘Offline’ and Online Worlds....Pages 191-222
Mobile Phones Transforming Public Communication in Africa....Pages 223-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-295

✦ Subjects

African Culture; Media and Communication; Social Media; Media Studies; Social Sciences, general; Regional and Cultural Studies

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