Cultural Netizenship

Author : James Yékú
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253060518

Get Book

Cultural Netizenship by James Yékú Pdf

How does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular forms—from GIFs to memes to videos—and become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power? James Yékú proposes the concept of "cultural netizenship"—internet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensions—as a way of being on the social web and articulating counter-hegemonic self-presentations through viral popular images. Yékú explores the cultural politics of protest selfies, Nollywood-derived memes and GIFs, hashtags, and political cartoons as visual texts for postcolonial studies, and he examines how digital subjects in Nigeria, a nation with one of the most vibrant digital spheres in Africa, deconstruct state power through performed popular culture on social media. As a rubric for the new digital genres of popular and visual expressions on social media, cultural netizenship indexes the digital everyday through the affordances of the participatory web. A fascinating look at the intersection of social media and popular culture performance, Cultural Netizenship reveals the logic of remediation that is central to both the internet's remix culture and the generative materialism of African popular arts.

Author : Grace A Musila
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000588347

Get Book

Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture by Grace A Musila Pdf

This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in this handbook index the genres, methods, mediums, questions and encounters that preoccupy producers, consumers and scholars of African popular cultural forms across a range of geohistorical and temporal contexts. Drawing on forms such as newspaper columns, televised English Premier League football, speculative arts, romance fiction, comedy, cinema, music and digital genres, the contributors explore the possibilities and ambiguities unleashed by the production, circulation, consumption, remediation and critique of these forms. Among the questions explored across these essays are the freedoms and constraints of popular genres; the forms of self-making, pleasure and harm that these imaginaries enable; the negotiations of multiple moral regimes in everyday life; and, inevitably, the fecund terrain of contradictions definitive of many popular forms, which variously enable and undermine world-making. An authoritative scholarly resource on popular culture in Africa, this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of African culture, society and media.

Author : Ario Seto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811053979

Get Book

Netizenship, Activism and Online Community Transformation in Indonesia by Ario Seto Pdf

Focusing on the concept of prudence as ethical groundwork for digital practices and activism, this book considers digital media expediency and populism as conflicting required experiences that lead digital citizens to discover activism. It highlights the importance of digital citizens’ experience of ‘being-in-the-digital sphere’ and encourages the reader to look at the dynamics of online movement as a part of a community’s search for significance between the online and offline realms of activism. Based on ethnographic research about the largest Indonesian online community, Kaskus, this book uses Indonesian digital citizenship as an example of online activism in a post-authoritarian state, with media viewed as a tool for democratic advancement and a catalyst for social movements among activists, students, and citizens both in Indonesia and further afield. Set at the intersection of media anthropology, sociology, Asian studies, and Citizenship studies, this book considers the shape and future of digital democracy in post-authoritarian state.

Author : Yetunde Akorede,Y. M. Ogunsiji,G. C. Boko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language and culture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105133709282

Get Book

Languages, Literature and Culture in the Current Technological World by Yetunde Akorede,Y. M. Ogunsiji,G. C. Boko Pdf

Author : Brandon K. Winford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813178288

Get Book

John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights by Brandon K. Winford Pdf

WINNER OF THE LILLIAN SMITH BOOK AWARD John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, this biography explores the black freedom struggle through the life of North Carolina's most influential black power broker. After graduating from Morehouse College, Wheeler returned to Durham and began a decades-long career at Mechanics and Farmers (M&F) Bank. He started as a teller and rose to become bank president in 1952. In 1961, President Kennedy appointed Wheeler to the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity, a position in which he championed equal rights for African Americans and worked with Vice President Johnson to draft civil rights legislation. One of the first blacks to attain a high position in the state's Democratic Party, Wheeler became the state party's treasurer in 1968, and then its financial director. Wheeler urged North Carolina's white financial advisors to steer the region toward the end of Jim Crow segregation for economic reasons. Straddling the line between confrontation and negotiation, Wheeler pushed for increased economic opportunity for African Americans while reminding the white South that its future was linked to the plight of black southerners.

Author : Raul Pertierra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Culture diffusion
ISBN : UOM:39015062041515

Get Book

Science, Technology, and Everyday Culture in the Philippines by Raul Pertierra Pdf

Author : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107016514

Get Book

Youth Culture in China by Paul Clark Pdf

Examines youth cultures at three historical points - 1968, 1988 and 2008 - and argues that present-day youth culture in China has international and local roots.

Author : Michael Hauben,Ronda Hauben
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-05-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015040358460

Get Book

Netizens by Michael Hauben,Ronda Hauben Pdf

The authors conducted online research to find out what makes the Internet "tick", resulting in this examination of the pioneering vision and actions that have helped make the Net possible. "Netizens" is a detailed description of the Net's construction and a step-by-step view of the past, present, and future of the Internet, the Usenet and the World Wide Web.

Author : FACT (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art festivals
ISBN : UCSD:31822026362202

Get Book

Escaping Gravity by FACT (Great Britain) Pdf

Festival of television and video images, computer generated images, video animation, scanned images, images on CD-ROM and the Internet which are presented in installations, performances, screened works, on CD-ROM and as Web sites

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Korea
ISBN : STANFORD:36105113509694

Get Book

Korea Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Leah A Lievrouw,Sonia Livingstone
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106011430425

Get Book

Handbook of New Media by Leah A Lievrouw,Sonia Livingstone Pdf

The Handbook of New Media sets out boundaries of new media research and scholarship and provides a definitive statement of the current state of the art.

Author : Julie Rachel Mactaggart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P00831767C

Get Book

Chameleon by Julie Rachel Mactaggart Pdf

Author : Jinhee Choi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Motion pictures
ISBN : WISC:89086266012

Get Book

Corporate Affluence, Cultural Exuberance by Jinhee Choi Pdf

Author : Andrew N. Weintraub,Bell Yung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39076002884547

Get Book

Music and Cultural Rights by Andrew N. Weintraub,Bell Yung Pdf

Global and local perspectives on the meaning and significance of cultural rights through music

Author : Sara E. Quay,Gabrielle R. Watling
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313337446

Get Book

Cultural History of Reading [2 volumes] by Sara E. Quay,Gabrielle R. Watling Pdf

What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works, dictionaries, scientific works, and home guides such as Mrs. Beeton's all have had an impact on not only their own time and place, but continue to capture the attention of readers today. Volume 1 examines the history of books in regions throughout the world, identifying both literature and nonfiction that was influenced by cultural events of its time. Volume 2 identifies books from the pre-colonial era to the present day that have had lasting significance in the United States. History students and book lovers alike will enjoy discovering the books that have impacted our world.