Afronet

Author : Charlton D. McIlwain
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190863852

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Black Software by Charlton D. McIlwain Pdf

Activists, pundits, politicians, and the press frequently proclaim today's digitally mediated racial justice activism the new civil rights movement. As Charlton D. McIlwain shows in this book, the story of racial justice movement organizing online is much longer and varied than most people know. In fact, it spans nearly five decades and involves a varied group of engineers, entrepreneurs, hobbyists, journalists, and activists. But this is a history that is virtually unknown even in our current age of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Black Lives Matter. Beginning with the simultaneous rise of civil rights and computer revolutions in the 1960s, McIlwain, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet. In turn, he argues that the forgotten figures who worked to make black politics central to the Internet's birth and evolution paved the way for today's explosion of racial justice activism. From the 1960s to present, the book examines how computing technology has been used to neutralize the threat that black people pose to the existing racial order, but also how black people seized these new computing tools to build community, wealth, and wage a war for racial justice.Through archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history, Black Software centralizes African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United States and across the globe.

Author : Peter Ferdinand
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136332593

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The Internet, Democracy and Democratization by Peter Ferdinand Pdf

The Internet is transforming relations between states and citizens. This study gives examples of how it is creating new political communities at various levels, both in democracies and authoritarian regimes. It is also used by marginalized anti-democratic groups such as neo-Nazis.

Author : Michael Leslie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351506380

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Media and Democracy in Africa by Michael Leslie Pdf

Recent discussion of democratization in Africa has focused primarily on the reform of formal state institutions: the public service, the judiciary, and the legislature. Similarly, both scholars and activists have shown interest in how associational life-and with it a civil society-might be enhanced in the countries of the African continent. Much less concern, however, has been directed to the communications media, although they form a vital part of this process. Media and Democracy in Africa provides the first comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the role of the media in political change in sub-Saharan Africa. The central argument of the volume is that while the media may still be relatively weak compared to their positions in liberal democracies, they have come to play a much more important role than ever before since independence. Although they have not yet demonstrated sufficient effectiveness as public watchdogs and agenda setters, they have succeeded in creating new communicative spaces for people who have previously been intimidated or silent. Building on this the contributors argue that a different conceptualization of democratization than the mainstream currently uses may be necessary to capture the process in Africa where it is characterized by contestation rather than consolidation. This volume shows that the media scene in Africa is diverse. It stretches from the well-developed and technologically advanced situation in South Africa to the still fledgling media operations that are typical in sub-Saharan Africa. In these countries, print media as well as television and radio are just beginning to take their place in society and do so using simple and often outdated technology. The volume also examines how these growing outlets are supplemented by informal media, the so-called radio trottoir, or rumor mill whereby the autocratic and bureaucratic direction of public affairs are subject to private speculation and analysis. Media and Democracy in Africa is organized to provide a historical perspective on the evolution of the African media, placing the present in the context of the past, including both colonial and post-colonial experiences. It will be of interest to Africa area specialists, students of media and communications, political scientists and sociologists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Human rights
ISBN : IND:30000115678678

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Liberty by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charlton D. McIlwain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780190863845

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Black Software by Charlton D. McIlwain Pdf

"Black Software, for the first time, chronicles the long relationship between African Americans, computing technology, and the Internet. Through new archival sources and the voices of many of those who lived and made this history, this book centralizes African Americans' role in the Internet's creation and evolution, illuminating both the limits and possibilities for using digital technology to push for racial justice in the United States and across the globe"--

Author : Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,Philip J. McConnaughay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812204513

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Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,Philip J. McConnaughay Pdf

Changes in human rights environments in Africa over the past decade have been facilitated by astounding political transformations: the rise of mass movements and revolts driven by democratic and developmentalist ideals, as well as mass murder and poverty perpetuated by desperate regimes and discredited global agencies. Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and Development in Africa seeks to make sense of human rights in Africa through the lens of its triumphs and tragedies, its uneven developments and complex demands. The volume makes a significant contribution to the debate about the connections between the protection of human rights and the pursuit of economic development by interrogating the paradigms, politics, and practices of human rights in Africa. Throughout, the essays emphasize that democratic and human rights regimes are products of concrete social struggles, not simply textual or legal discourses. Including some of Africa's leading scholars, jurists, and human rights activists, contributors to the volume diverge from Western theories of African democratization by rejecting the continental view of an Africa blighted by failure, disease, and economic malaise. It argues instead that Africa has strengthened and shaped international law, such as the right to self-determination, inspired by the process of decolonization, and the definition of the refugee. Insisting on the holistic view that human rights are as much about economic and social rights as they are about civil and political rights, the contributors offer novel analyses of African conceptions, experiences, and aspirations of human rights which manifest themselves in complex global, regional, and local idioms. Further, they explore the varied constructions of human rights in African and Western discourses and the roles played by states and NGOs in promoting or subverting human rights. Combining academic analysis with social concern, intellectual discourse with civic engagement, and scholarly research with institution building, this is a compelling and original approach to the question whether externally inspired solutions to African human rights issues have validity in a postcolonial world.

Author : Liam Gearon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134428717

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Citizenship Through Secondary Religious Education by Liam Gearon Pdf

Religion has achieved ever greater prominence in debates about citizenship at every level of cultural, economic, social and political life. Citizenship through Secondary Religious Education highlights some of the key issues surrounding citizenship for the R.E. teacher. Topics selected include those of historical and immediate relevance to teaching citizenship through religious education. There are chapters covering general critical planning issues and those concentrating on specific themes such as: The open society and its enemies planning for citizenship through religious education genocide asylum freedom of religion and belief sustainable development the rights of indigenous peoples. Practical in its style, the guidance presented in this book will be invaluable to teachers and student teachers of religious education and specialists in citizenship. Those who have been allocated responsibility for teaching Citizenship or Religious Education, or are looking to teach them as second subjects, will also find this book a useful resource.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121696418

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The Human Rights Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Land reform
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110501843

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NGOs & Land Advocacy in Eastern and Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah J. Jackson,Moya Bailey,Brooke Foucault Welles
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262356510

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#HashtagActivism by Sarah J. Jackson,Moya Bailey,Brooke Foucault Welles Pdf

This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent (Ms.) The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags, including #JusticeForTrayvon, #BlackLivesMatter, #YesAllWomen, and #MeToo to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, including Black Americans, women, and transgender people. They show how marginalized groups, long excluded from elite media spaces, have used Twitter hashtags to advance counternarratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent. The authors describe how such hashtags as #MeToo, #SurvivorPrivilege, and #WhyIStayed have challenged the conventional understanding of gendered violence; examine the voices and narratives of Black feminism enabled by #FastTailedGirls, #YouOKSis, and #SayHerName; and explore the creation and use of #GirlsLikeUs, a network of transgender women. They investigate the digital signatures of the “new civil rights movement”—the online activism, storytelling, and strategy-building that set the stage for #BlackLivesMatter—and recount the spread of racial justice hashtags after the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and other high-profile incidents of killings by police. Finally, they consider hashtag created by allies, including #AllMenCan and #CrimingWhileWhite.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-07
Category : African American businesspeople
ISBN : WISC:89077059103

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Black Enterprise by Anonim Pdf

Author : African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Human rights
ISBN : STANFORD:36105061846486

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Compte-rendu Sur la ... Session de la Commission Africaine Des Droits de L'homme Et Des Peuples by African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights Pdf

Author : Alfred W. Chanda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Corporations
ISBN : IND:30000082139100

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National Integrity Systems by Alfred W. Chanda Pdf

Author : Charlton McIlwain,Stephen M Caliendo
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781439902776

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Race Appeal by Charlton McIlwain,Stephen M Caliendo Pdf

Why, when, and how often candidates use race appeals, and how the electorate responds.

Author : André Brock, Jr.
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479820375

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Distributed Blackness by André Brock, Jr. Pdf

An explanation of the digital practices of the black Internet From BlackPlanet to #BlackGirlMagic, Distributed Blackness places blackness at the very center of internet culture. André Brock Jr. claims issues of race and ethnicity as inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States. Distributed Blackness analyzes a host of platforms and practices (from Black Twitter to Instagram, YouTube, and app development) to trace how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity. Brock moves beyond widely circulated deficit models of respectability, bringing together discourse analysis with a close reading of technological interfaces to develop nuanced arguments about how “blackness” gets worked out in various technological domains. As Brock demonstrates, there’s nothing niche or subcultural about expressions of blackness on social media: internet use and practice now set the terms for what constitutes normative participation. Drawing on critical race theory, linguistics, rhetoric, information studies, and science and technology studies, Brock tabs between black-dominated technologies, websites, and social media to build a set of black beliefs about technology. In explaining black relationships with and alongside technology, Brock centers the unique joy and sense of community in being black online now.