The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 28/10/2014 - 194 páginas
This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media on 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.
 

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Introduction
1
MeDIa DeMoCraCy anD DeveLoPMenT
7
media Information and democratization
23
hope potential and reality
29
sIMILar
43
politics and media in angola
53
politics and media in mozambique
71
politics and media in sao Tome and principe
83
politics and media in cape Verde
93
The use of The InTerneT In The LusoPhone
109
online news media
121
The Use of Blogs and Social Network Websites
131
conclusions
155
References
169
Index
183
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Susana Salgado is a researcher and professor of Political Communication and Media and Politics. She currently is a professor at the New University of Lisbon and an associate researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Recently, she also worked as researcher at the University of Oxford. In addition to the six-year comparative research project on African democratization and media fully funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, her most recent research includes comparative projects focusing on Europe and the US, as well as research on Portuguese elections and political communication. Her main research interests are political communication, media and elections, comparative media studies, media and democratization, and Internet and politics and her publications include three single-authored books and more than twenty book chapters and journal articles on these topics. She is a member of the Network of European Political Communication Scholars (NEPOCS), which is a network for furthering research and teaching in comparative political communication.

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