Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa

Part I: Conceptualizing Political Communication in the Digital Age.- 1. Key developments in Political Communications in Africa; Bruce Mutsvairo & Beschara Karam.- 2. Split: missing the master signifier in the role of the media in a democracy: the tension between the ANC and the media in South Africa; Glenda Daniels.- 3. Hashtags: #RhodesMustFall, #FeesMustFall and the Cultural Politics of a Meme Event; Pier Paulo Frassinelli.- 4. The voice of the voiceless? The emergence of online radical discourses in South Africa; Lorenzo Dalvit.- 5. Agenda-Setting in Political Communication in the 2012 Presidential Runoff Elections in Sierra Leone: Change or Continuity in the Digital Age?; Ibrahim Shaw.- Part II: Emergent Narratives: Complex and Contradictory Attitudes Between Media and Politics.- 6. Friends or Foes? Political Communication and the NRM Government's equivocal Relationship with Media Freedom in Uganda; Monica Chibita.-7. Intergenerational Political Change: Evolving Attitudes aboutMedia and Press Freedom among Zambian Parliamentarians- Twange Kasoma and Gregory Pitts.- 8. Allies or Adversaries? : Exploring the uneasy relationship between the Jubilee government and Kenya's media; Samuel Kamau.- 9. Communicating politics and national identity: the case of Mozambique Gisela Gonçalves, & Stelia Neta.- Part III Online and Offline Mapping of Interactive Politics and Media.- 10. Digital media and political citizenship: Facebook and politics in South Africa; Tanja Bosch.- 11. Framing the Debate on 'Kagame III' in Rwanda's Print Media; Margaret Jjuuko.- 12. Us versus them: Exploring ethno-nationalist contestations in Nigerian political communication; Mercy Ette.- 13. Voices from below and above: Social networking sites, politics and democracy in crisis Zimbabwe; Mandlenkosi Mpofu.- 14. Romancing the media: A critical interrogation of political communication in presidential elections in Kenya; George Nyabuga, & Wilson Ugangu.- Part IV Local Politics in a

Bruce Mutsvairo is Associate Professor in Journalism at the University of Technology Sydney.



Beschara Karam is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Science, University of South Africa.