[Commlist] New Book: Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa

New Book Announcement:

Farooq A. Kperogi is delighted to announce the publication of the edited 
book titled /Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa, 
/which features cutting-edge scholarship on online resistance and 
government censorship of social media in Africa from a variety of 
distinguished scholars from across the continent. Here's the description 
of the book from the publisher:

"This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African 
continent and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have 
invented to try to contain it.

The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided 
the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning 
for the continent’s restlessly energetic and contagiously creative 
youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper 
state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and 
constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital 
sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore 
the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via 
antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state 
cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the 
artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to 
muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence 
in African governments’ clampdown on social media and the role of 
Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies 
which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social 
media censorship.

Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this 
book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest 
in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in 
transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more 
broadly."

You can order it Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in 
Africa 
<https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Dissidence-and-Social-Media-Censorship-in-Africa/Kperogi/p/book/9781003276326>

	

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