Media Practices and Changing African Socialities

Jo Helle-Valle is a social anthropologist and Professor in the Development Studies Department at Oslo Metropolitan University. He has published in journals such as Journal of African Media Studies, Africa, Ethnos, History and Anthropology, and New Media & Society.

“This is a fascinating set of ethnographic and empirically based studies with an excellently penned Introduction.” • Keyan Tomaselli, University of Johannesburg

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Social Science Perspective on Media Practices in Africa: Social Mechanisms, Dynamics and ProcessesJo Helle-Valle and Ardis Storm-MathisenPart I: EconomyChapter 1. Digital Development Imaginaries, Informal Business Practices and the Platformisation of Digital Technology in ZambiaWendy WillemsChapter 2. Botswana’s Digital Revolution: What’s in it?Ardis Storm-Mathisen and Jo Helle-VallePart II: Gender and Social RelationsChapter 3. Bolingo ya face: Digital Marriages, Playfulness and the Search for Change in KinshasaKatrien PypeChapter 4. Texting Like A State: Knowledge and Change in a National mHealth ProgrammeNanna SchneidermannChapter 5. New Ways of Making Ends Meet? On Batswana Women, Their Uses of the Mobile Phone and Connections through EducationArdis Storm-MathisenPart III: Localities and New MediaChapter 6. The Public Inside Out: Facebook, Community and Banal Activism in a Cape Town SuburbNanna SchneidermannChapter 7. From No Media to All Media: Domesticating New Media in a Kalahari VillageJo Helle-ValleAfterword: The Electronic Media in Africa, with an Addendum from MauritiusThomas Hylland EriksenIndex