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.
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This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication.
Chapter 1. Traditional African and Western Modern Cultures.- Chapter 2. Cyberculture, Cybersubculture and Africa.- Chapter 3. Road to Cyberculture in sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 4. Requiem for In-person verbal/Nonverbal communication.- Chapter 5. New media new cultural dependence.- Chapter 6. Cyber culture and digital divide.- Chapter 7. Cyber culture and IdentityChapter 8. Cybernetic- Psycho-syndrome.- Chapter 9. Cybersecurity in Africa.- Chapter 10. Cyberculture and e-Health Communication in Africa.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
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This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural/subcultural forms of communication. It demonstrates that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital technology, marginalized populations in Africa are able to embrace communication, aiding in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. The book also engages 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.Kehbuma Langmia is Fulbright Scholar/Professor and Chair of the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication in the School of Communications at Howard University, USA. He publishes in the areas of intercultural communication, social media, and information communication technology.
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The first book to thoroughly engage with the broad impacts of Western cyberculture and its neo-colonial impacts on Africa Connects traditional forms of communication in Africa with the contemporary digitization of communication alongside other colonial, postcolonial, and neo-colonial movements Addresses a wide variety of experiences and spaces that have been reformed by cyberculture and digital communication
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ISBN
9783319475837
Publisert
2017-01-02
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Springer International Publishing AG
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210 mm
Bredde
148 mm
Aldersnivå
Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Kehbuma Langmia is Fulbright Scholar/Professor and Chair of the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication in the School of Communications at Howard University, USA. He publishes in the areas of intercultural communication, social media, and information communication technology.