Cultural Netizenship

Author : James Yékú
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060508
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Netizenship written by James Yékú and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : James Yékú
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253060516
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Netizenship written by James Yékú and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 1000588343
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture written by Grace A Musila and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Paul Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016517
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth Culture in China written by Paul Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher : Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netizens written by Michael Hauben and published by Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press. This book was released on 1997-05-11 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ario Seto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811053979
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Netizenship, Activism and Online Community Transformation in Indonesia written by Ario Seto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Languages, Literature and Culture in the Current Technological World written by Yetunde Akorede and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Katz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media Rants written by Jon Katz and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of columnist Jon Katz's year in cyberspace as one of the first interactive journalists on the Web, "Media Rants" dismantles the static, old media empire while exploring the organic qualities of the Web and its direct impact on democracy and the new American civility.

Author : Leah A Lievrouw
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of New Media written by Leah A Lievrouw and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2002 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Raul Pertierra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science, Technology, and Everyday Culture in the Philippines written by Raul Pertierra and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: