Description |
1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Palgrave pivot |
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Palgrave pivot.
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Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Traditional African and Western Modern Cultures -- 3. Cyberculture, Cybersubculture, and Africa -- 4. Road to Cyberculture in Tropical Africa -- 5. Requiem for In-Person Verbal/Nonverbal Communication -- 6. New Media New Cultural Dependence -- 7. Cyberculture and the Digital Divide -- 8. Cyberculture and Identity -- 9. Cybernetic Psycho-Syndrome -- 10. Cybersecurity, Cyberculture, and Africa -- 11. Cyberculture and E-health Communication in Africa -- 12. Conclusion |
Summary |
"This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail's Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa's cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap"--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Digital communications -- Africa
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Digital communications -- Western countries
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Culture and globalization -- Africa
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Culture and globalization -- Western countries
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Culture and globalization
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Digital communications
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International relations
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SUBJECT |
Africa -- Relations -- Western countries
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Western countries -- Relations -- Africa
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Subject |
Africa
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Western countries
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9783319475844 |
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3319475843 |
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