[ecrea] Nordicom Book Media, Empowerment and Civic Engagement

Speaking Up and Talking Back?

Media, Empowerment and Civic Engagement among East and Sothern African Youth

Eds.: Thomas Tufte, Norbert Wildermuth, Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes & 
Winnie Mitullah



Yearbook 2012/2013 from the International Clearinghouse on Children, 
Youth and Media

Nordicom, University of Gothenburg, 2013, 302 p. ISBN 978-91-86523-55-0. 
Price: €23, $31



The book questions whether and how young citizens in Africa engage with 
media and communications technologies and platforms in a desire to be 
included in the change processes of their societies. The theme echoes 
some of the claims made by disenchanted and frustrated youth and other 
citizens in the streets of North Africa’s cities in 2011 and 2012. They 
were severely critical of the governance structures in their countries, 
mass social mobilizations took place, governments fell and, in the 
aftermath, the slow process of transition continued, now with one tyrant 
less but still with uncertain outcomes and huge challenges for the 
social and economic development of these countries.

Youth in particular engaged massively, visibly, loudly and dramatically 
around demands to be involved and included in their countries’ 
development processes. This yearbook taps into the less visible and 
dramatic, but nevertheless highly dynamic and influential, process of 
media development and the enlargement of youth-driven, deliberative 
spaces which sub-Saharan Africa is currently experiencing.



For more information: 
www.nordicom.gu.se/clearinghouse.php?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=369&me=1





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