The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African CountriesRoutledge, 03/03/2016 - 198 páginas This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. Based on extensive field work throughout the region the author examines the influence of the Internet in the transition to democracy in Africa, and asks whether there are new possibilities for popular activism to emerge from evolving communication environments and media systems. The book analyses the different forms of democracy, the concept of development, and addresses the debate about the relationship between democracy and development and explores the influence of the media in the democratization process, the promises that digital media bring to this process and to development and the implications of the African digital divide. In certain countries in this region democracy and independent news media are in their infancy but are starting to take hold, giving an excellent opportunity to observe the dynamics of civil society and the influence of increased freedom, new voting powers and new media in particular. The book offers important insights into the roles and functions that the media in general, and the Internet in particular, can perform in the creation of a more democratic society, as well as in empowering and educating citizens in democratic values. |
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... context presents important specificities that make such research work particularly challenging. In the late eighties and early nineties, the third wave of democratization (Huntington 1991), which had started in 1974 with the Carnation ...
... context presents important specificities that make such research work particularly challenging. In the late eighties and early nineties, the third wave of democratization (Huntington 1991), which had started in 1974 with the Carnation ...
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... contexts. Several debates that are strongly related to these issues are also addressed in this book: the different interpretations and adaptations of democracy, the concepts of democratization and development, the debate on democracy ...
... contexts. Several debates that are strongly related to these issues are also addressed in this book: the different interpretations and adaptations of democracy, the concepts of democratization and development, the debate on democracy ...
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... context; and Chapter 3 introduces the debate on the promises of further democratization brought by the Internet and contextualizes the meaning of these hopes in the Lusophone African reality. Part II describes and analyses the political ...
... context; and Chapter 3 introduces the debate on the promises of further democratization brought by the Internet and contextualizes the meaning of these hopes in the Lusophone African reality. Part II describes and analyses the political ...
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... context to the analysis in Part III on the effects of the Internet in these four countries. Part III deals exclusively with the Internet and examines different online expressions linked with democracy in these four countries. The ...
... context to the analysis in Part III on the effects of the Internet in these four countries. Part III deals exclusively with the Internet and examines different online expressions linked with democracy in these four countries. The ...
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... contexts. This part of the book provides a first insight not only to the problematic use of Western concepts in African countries and to the particularities of the democratization processes in this part of the world, but it also draws ...
... contexts. This part of the book provides a first insight not only to the problematic use of Western concepts in African countries and to the particularities of the democratization processes in this part of the world, but it also draws ...
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The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries Dr Susana Salgado Pré-visualização limitada - 2014 |
The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries Susana Salgado Pré-visualização limitada - 2016 |
The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries Dr Susana Salgado Pré-visualização limitada - 2014 |
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