Participatory Journalism in Africa

Digital News Engagement and User Agency in the South

AvHayes Mawindi Mabweazara,Admire Mare

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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This book offers an African perspective on how news organisations are embracing digital participatory practices as part of their everyday news production, dissemination and audience engagement strategies. Drawing on empirical evidence from news organisations in sub-Saharan Africa, Participatory Journalism in Africa investigates and maps out professional practices emerging with journalists’ direct interactions with readers and sources via online user comment spaces and social media platforms. Using a social constructivist approach, the book focuses on the challenges relating to the elite-centric nature of active participation on the platforms, while also highlighting emerging ethical and normative dilemmas. The authors also point to the hidden structural controls to participation and user engagement associated with artificial intelligence, chatbots and algorithms. These obstacles, coupled with low digital literacy levels and the well-established pitfalls of the digital divide, challenge the utopian view that in Africa interactive digital technologies are the sine qua non spaces for democratic participation. This is a valuable resource for academics, journalists and students across a wide range of disciplines including journalism studies, communication, sociology and political science.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-05-27
Mått:138 x 216 x 8 mm
Vikt:220 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Disruptions
Antal sidor:136
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781032002132

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Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (PhD) teaches media and international journalism at the University of Glasgow, UK, where he is a member of the Glasgow University Media Group. He is Associate Editor of Journalism Studies and African Journalism Studies, and a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Humanities. His most recent publication is the edited volume Newsmaking Cultures in Africa (2018). Admire Mare (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head in the Department of Communication at the Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia. He is a Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg’s Faculty of Humanities. He currently leads the international research project Social Media, Misinformation and Elections in Kenya and Zimbabwe (SoMeKeZi) funded by the Social Science Research Council (2019–2021).

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List of FiguresAcknowledgementsList of Acronyms and Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Participatory Turn in African Journalism: Context and ConceptualisationsChapter 2: Readers’ Comments: How Audiences’ Voices are Challenging and (Re)defining Traditional JournalismChapter 3: The Social Media Turn and News Engagement Chapter 4: Participatory Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Chatbots, Algorithms and Editorial Analytics Chapter 5: Unsettling Changes, Normative Dilemmas and Ethical ChallengesChapter 6: Participation, Pitfalls, Predicaments and ‘New’ Normative Directions: Concluding ReflectionsReferencesIndex