Gender and Media Representations of Land Based Reforms in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe embarked on a fast-track land-reform programme that saw the massive transfer of land from white commercial farmers to black Zimbabweans. In the process, women accessed land and were able to set a new development pathway in which they became indep
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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa Foreword by Herman Wasserman
Editor Bruce Mutsvairo Department of Social Sciences, Media Research Group Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne United Kingdom
ISBN 978-3-319-40948-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40949-8
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FOREWORD
Digital technologies have disrupted the way media are practised and consumed globally—they have posed serious challenges to legacy media, increased the range of outlets for political discussion and debate, and brought the means of media production within the realm of the everyday. Digital media have, on the other hand, also often served as channels for hate speech, intolerance, and increased the disempowerment of those citizens who lack access or the ability to use these platforms to full effect. Both the positive and negative impact of digital media can be noted in the African context. But despite the often pessimistic accounts of connectivity levels in Africa, digital media have been appropriated and adapted to the African context with such speed and breadth that it is now clear that vibrant digital cultures and practices have developed in Africa despite infrastructural, political and economic obstacles (Mabewazara 2015, p. 1). While earlier approaches to digital media on the continent have often been biased towards a technologically deterministic focus on development impact, more recent studies of digital media on the continent have tended to
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