Title Globalization and cyberculture : an Afrocentric perspective / Kehbuma Langmia

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (136 pages) : illustrations Series Palgrave pivot Palgrave pivot. 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 Digital communications -- Western countries Culture and globalization -- Africa Culture and globalization -- Western countries PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology. Culture and globalization Digital communications International relations SUBJECT Africa -- Relations -- Western countries Western countries -- Relations -- Africa Subject Africa Western countries Form Electronic book ISBN 9783319475844 3319475843

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