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"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to consider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age"--

Digital Media Worlds tracks the evolution of the media sector on its way toward a digital world. It focuses on core economic and management issues (cost structures, value network chain, business models) in industries such as book publishing, broadcasting, film, music, newspaper and video game

In today's rapidly evolving world, digital communication has become both a boon and a challenge. The proliferation of social media and innovative technologies has transformed the way we interact, communicate, and access information. However, navigating this complex landscape poses significant difficulties for scholars, researchers, and students in various disciplines. The integration of social media into fields like communication science, public relations, advertising, and more has created a demand for comprehensive and authoritative resources that can shed light on the current state and future expectations of digital communication. Additionally, the ever-changing nature of social media platforms and digital technologies necessitates up-to-date and relevant research to understand their impact on society and communication practices. Advancements in Socialized and Digital Media Communications emerges as the definitive solution to address the challenges posed by the digital communication revolution. Edited by Ebru Gülbug Erol and Michael Kuyucu, this book offers a comprehensive collection of empirical and theoretical insights. It delves into various aspects of digital communication, providing authoritative overviews, research findings, comparative studies, and analyses of specific cases across disciplines. By focusing on social media's influence on fields like public relations, journalism, cinema, radio-television, marketing, and more, this book equips researchers, academicians, and students with the knowledge they need to thrive in this ever-changing landscape. With its thought-provoking chapters exploring topics ranging from social networks, video-sharing platforms, digital radio, and digital cinema to digital public relations, reputation management, advertising, and more, this book caters to a diverse audience. From seasoned scholars seeking to deepen their research to undergraduate and postgraduate students looking to grasp the intricacies of digital communication, this book is a valuable resource. Moreover, it appeals to professionals and the public interested in understanding how digital media has permeated every aspect of contemporary life. By offering a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of digital communication and social media, this book empowers readers to navigate the complexities of this rapidly evolving field

While some academic attentional has been paid to the impact of new digital technologies on African media in the colonial languages of English, French and Portuguese, there is a dearth of research into African language digital communication. This book analysess the online presence of African language media, The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance,and the audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Whatsapp have been appropriated by Africa language media. Using a wide range of case studes, the contributors assess the challenges of adopting digital technologies by the media, and how the technologies have impacted journalistic practice and media operations. Examing the ability of the African language press to adopt new technologies, this book will be of interest to scholars of media, journalism, communication, social media and culture in Africa.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: from the mechanical Turk to the digital housewife -- Sexts from marxists and other stories from digital media's social factory -- My Marxist feminist dialectic brings all the boys to the yard : a feminist critique of the social factory -- Who says Facebook friends are not your real friends? : alienation and exploitation in digital media -- Gifts, commodities and the economics of affect -- I can haz false consciousness? : social reproduction and affective consumer labour -- Conclusion: beyond consumer labour -- Index.

This book provides an introduction to digital media content production in the twenty-first century. It explores the kinds of content production that are undertaken in professions that include journalism, public relations and marketing. The book provides an insight into content moderation and addresses the legal and ethical issues that content producers face, as well as how these issues can be effectively managed. Chapters also contain interviews with media professionals, and quizzes that allow readers to consolidate the knowledge they have gathered through their reading of that chapter

There is a contradiction at the heart of digital media. We use commercial platforms to express our identity, to build community and to engage politically. At the same time, our status updates, tweets, videos, photographs and music files are free content for these sites. We are also generating an almost endless supply of user data that can be mined, re-purposed and sold to advertisers. As users of the commercial web, we are socially and creatively engaged, but also labourers, exploited by the companies that provide our communication platforms. How do we reconcile these contradictions?

Introduction: Not to be left behind: African languages, media and the digital sphere -- Section A: Digital media, revitalisation and sustainability of African languages -- Access to information, skills and development in Africa: local knowledge in local language -- Section B: Audience, African language mass media and their adaptation to the digital sphere -- Alaroye, IsoLezwe and the adoption of digital technologies -- Okun Radio Online -- Grassroots media and social media adaptation: case study of Urhobo Today -- Defying "protocol": use of local languages among online newspaper readers in Zimbabwe -- Perceptions of and motivations for accessing Swahili online newspapers among students at the University of Dar es Salaam -- Section C: African languages in the social media -- Use of indigenous languages for social media communication: the Nigerian example -- Subaltern agency, social media and the indigenous African language question in Zimbabwe -- "Digital chieftaincy": social media, register and community policing in Kenya -- Section D: Contents, challenges and prospects of online African language media -- New technologies, indigenous language journalism practice and development discourse in Africa -- Issues and challenges of adopting digital technologies by African language media: the Yoru`ba ́example -- African language online mass media in Malawi

Cover -- DIGITAL MEDIA DISTRIBUTION -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Media Distribution Today -- SECTION 1: CONCEPTUALIZING DISTRIBUTION AND CIRCULATION -- 1. Points of Origin: Asking Questions in Distribution Research -- 2. Media Circulation: Reconceptualizing Television Distribution and Exhibition -- 3. Reassessing the "Space in Between": Distribution Studies in Transition -- 4. Disingenuous Intermediaries: The Gatekeeping Power of Distributors and Publishers -- 5. The Circulation Game: Shifting Production Logics and Circulation Moments in the Digital Games Industry -- 6. Questioning the Content Supply Model: A Provocation -- SECTION 2: DISTRIBUTION ECOSYSTEMS AND CULTURES -- 7. "Tech-Tonic" Shifts: The U.S. and China Models of Online Screen Distribution -- 8. Language, Culture, and Streaming Video in India: The Pragmatics and Politics of Media Distribution -- 9. "Sorry about That": Hopes and Promises of Geoblocking's End -- 10. Global TV Markets and Digital Distribution -- 11. Children's Television in an Era of Digital Distribution: Arab and European Responses -- 12. Distribution, Infrastructure, and Markets: SVOD Services in Latin America -- 13. VOD: Formal Challengers for Nollywood's Informal Domestic Market -- 14. The King Is Dead, Long Live the Algorithm: MindGeek and the Digital Distribution of Adult Film -- 15. Amazon and Automated Recommendations: Distribution and Discovery in the Book Trade -- 16. Free, Bundled, or Personalized? Rethinking Price and Value in Digital Distribution -- 17. "Every Day Should Be a Holiday": Black Friday and the Importance of Retail in the Circulation of Media -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index.

chapter 1 Minorities and the Digital Media -- chapter 2 Global Nannies -- A Global-Historical Perspective -- chapter 3 Mobile Phone for Empowerment? -- Work Life, Power and Freedom -- chapter 4 Digital Media for Intimacy? -- Family Life and Transnational Mothering -- chapter 5 Digital Media and Intergenerational Migration -- chapter 6 The Care of the Self -- "As a Woman, Not as a Mother or a Nanny" -- chapter 7 Racism, Ethnic Media, and Home -- chapter 8 Cosmopolitan Hospitality.

As technologies that work by computing numbers, digital media apparently epitomize what is considered scientific and rational. Yet people experience the effects of digital devices and algorithms in their everyday lives also through the lenses of magic and the supernatural. Algorithms, for instance, are discussed for their capacity to 'read minds' and predict the future; Artificial intelligence is seen as an opportunity to overcome death and achieve immortality through singularity; and avatars and robots are accorded a dignity that traditional religions restrict to humans. The essays collected in this volume challenge and redefine established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.