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245 00 a| Digital dissidence and social media censorship in Africah| [electronic resource] /c| edited by Farooq A. Kperogi.;

260 a| London ;a| New York :b| Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,c| 2023.;

300 a| 1 online resource;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| "This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent, and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it. The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning for the continent's restlessly energetic and contagiously creative youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, whether via anti-social media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists or the artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence in African governments' clampdown on social media and the role of Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social media censorship. Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more broadly"--c| Provided by publisher.;

538 a| Mode of access: World Wide Web;

588 a| Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.;

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Digital dissidence and social media censorship in Africa / edited by Farooq A. Kperogi.

Other author	Kperogi, Farooq A., 1973-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023.
Description	1 online resource
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks
Subjects	Social media--Censorship. --Africa. Social media--Political aspects. --Africa. Social media--Law and legislation. --Africa. Protest movements--Africa. Social control--Africa.

Abstract	"This book reflects on the rapid rise of social media across the African continent, and the legal and extra-legal efforts governments have invented to try to contain it. The relentless growth of social media platforms in Africa has provided the means of resistance, self-expression, and national self-fashioning for the continent's restlessly energetic and contagiously creative youth. This has provided a profound challenge to the African "gatekeeper state", which has often responded with strategies to constrict and constrain the rhetorical luxuriance of the social media and digital sphere. Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, whether via anti-social media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists or the artful deployment of the rhetoric of "fake news" as a smokescreen to muzzle critical voices. The book also reflects on the Chinese influence in African governments' clampdown on social media and the role of Israeli NSO Group Technologies, as well as the tactics and technologies which activists and users are deploying to resist or circumvent social media censorship. Drawing on a range of methodologies and disciplinary approaches, this book will be an important contribution to researchers with an interest in social media activism, digital rebellion, discursive democracy in transitional societies, censorship on the Internet, and Africa more broadly"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Source of description	Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Issued in other form	Print version: Digital dissidence and social media censorship in Africa London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023 9781032232263
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2022003503
ISBN	9781000618365 (epub)
ISBN	9781003276326 (ebook)
ISBN	(hardback)
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