Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: Networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya

Fred Mudhai

doi:10.4324/9780203382530

Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: Networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya

Fred Mudhai

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Abstract

Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comprehensive research tool that can both stand the test of time as well as offer researchers (particularly those in the economically developed Global North) models for cross-cultural comparative research. The essays here deploy either a wide range of evidence or adopt a case-study approach to engage with contemporary developments in African online journalism. This book thus makes up for the gap in cross-cultural studies that seek to understand online journalism in all its complexities. (abstract of book)

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Online journalism in Africa
Editors	Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Jason Whittaker, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Daya Thussu
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	123-140
ISBN (Print)	9780415503747
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203382530
Publication status	Published - Jan 2014

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