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  • The Algorithmic Age of Personality

    African Literature and Cancel Culture

    by James Yékú ...
    As the affordances of authorship and reading practices on social media become deeply mediated by algorithmic curation, they encourage closer attention to the author's personality as fundamental to literary production. The Algorithmic Age of Personality: African Literature and Cancel Culture challenges any lingering utopianism in the role of digital media in African cultural productions by ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • A Phial of Passing Memories

    by James Yeku ...
    James Yeku's second collection lingers on a poetics of elsewhere — poems that evoke various memories through shifting sceneries that record the everyday and chronicle vagrant seasons.James Yeku's second collection lingers on a poetics of elsewhere, as seen through poems that evoke various memories. In A Phial of Passing Memories, the poems offer shifting sceneries that record the everyday and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cultural Netizenship

    Social Media, Popular Culture, and Performance in Nigeria

    by James Yékú ...
    How does social media activism in Nigeria intersect with online popular forms—from GIFs to memes to videos—and become shaped by the repressive postcolonial state that propels resistance to dominant articulations of power?James Yékú proposes the concept of "cultural netizenship"—internet citizenship and its aesthetico-cultural dimensions—as a way of being on the social web and articulating counter ... Read more

    $42.39 CAD

  • Where the Baedeker Leads

    A Poetic Journey

    by James Yeku ...
    Where the Baedeker Leads uncovers the many delicate layers that lie in the spaces between departures and arrivals, offering memories and stories. Whether it’s about journeys, personal transition, or changes in the seasons, the aim in these poems is to draw attention to the personal experiences and social conditions that push people away from home to the new landscapes, sights, and encounters that ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • African Digital Cultures

    Platforms, Publics, and Infrastructures

    Edited by James Yeku, Leah Junck ...
    Series series Digital Studies
    Analyzing the innovative and popular uses of digital media technologies across many African countries, African Digital Cultures reveals how digitization, through its inherent computational and epistemological logics, is deeply embedded in the daily lives of millions of people, producing new structures of feeling and new possibilities for political participation, cultural expression, and creative ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Youth and Popular Culture in Africa

    Media, Music, and Politics

    by Professor Godfrey Maringira, Simbarashe Gukurume, Connie Rapoo, Professor Adrienne Cohen, Kristi Heather Kenyon, Juliana Coughlin, David Bosc, Professor Adeline Masquelier, Nadine Dolby, Bamba Ndiaye, Dr David Kerr, Professor Ty-Juana Taylor, Ibrahim Bangura, James Yeku, Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, Austin Bryan, Professor Jendele Hungbo ...
    This edited collection focuses on the links between youth and African popular culture. Contributions by a distinguished group of scholars explore popular culture produced and consumed by young people in contemporary Africa. Essays cover a variety of cultural representations—visual, oral, written, performative, fictional, social, and virtual—created by African youth, mostly about their lives and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • Mediated Society

    by John D. Jackson, Greg M. Nielsen, Yon Hsu ...
    Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which ... Read more

    $27.59 CAD

  • Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture

    Edited by Grace A Musila ...
    This handbook brings together an international team of scholars from different disciplines to reflect on African popular cultural imaginaries. These imaginaries – in the sense of cultural productions, contexts, consumers, producers, platforms, and the material, affective and discursive resources they circulate – are influential in shaping African realities. Collectively, the chapters assembled in ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Invisible Users

    Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

    by Jenna Burrell ...
    Series series Acting with Technology
    An account of how young people in Ghana's capital city adopt and adapt digital technology in the margins of the global economy.The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties—activities once limited to the wealthy, university ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Keywords for Media Studies

    Edited by Laurie Ouellette, Jonathan Gray ...
    Series Book 5 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and their histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers and questions emerging in the field of media studiesKeywords for Media Studies introduces and aims to advance the field of critical media studies by tracing, defining, and problematizing its established and emergent terminology. The book historicizes thinking about media and society, ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • A Field of Flowers: Poems and Essays from a Diplomat

    Poems and Essays from a Diplomat's Journeys

    by Betsy Orlando ...
    Through her almost twelve years of travel, Betsy has written poems and short stories about and in the places she has lived and visited. Her poems are Impressionistic expressions that reflect her life experiences during this time. She captures the moods, feelings and vistas of her journeys throughout the world. Like Monet she tries to convey the world she has seen with images that are visual ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Everyday Media Culture in Africa

    Audiences and Users

    Edited by Wendy Willems, Winston Mano ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD