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This collection reflects the need for suitable methods to answer emerging questions that result from the ever-changing media environment. As media technologies and infrastructures become inseparably interwoven with social constellations, scholars from varying disciplines increasingly investigate their characteristics, functioning, relevance and impact - facing new methodological challenges as well as opportunities. Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research engages with the substantial need to rethink established methods to research acute changes in the media environment. The book gathers chapters dedicated to the multifacetedness and liveliness of emerging methods - from lifelogging and ethnography to digital methods and visualization - while embedding them in the rich history of interdisciplinary empirical research. Innovation here is a call for widening and rethinking research methods to stimulate a sophisticated debate on and exploration of contemporary methodological approaches for scholars at various levels of academic life. Accompanied by introductory sections of prominent scholars, the majority of empirical studies gathered in this volume are accomplished through early-career scholars who strive to advance cutting-edge and in parts even provocative approaches for the study of media and communication. 'Informative and inviting, this book opens a new window full of cutting-edge innovations and, more important, critical perspectives to think about methodological breakthroughs in digital media research. I can't wait to use this book in my graduate seminars.' Jack Linchuan Qiu, Ph.D. Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The essay argues that even though mobile may soon become less distinctive as a niche form of communication, Mobile Media and Communication will remain relevant through a focus on "mobile" from both the historical and user perspective. These stances encourage reflection. Keeping a critical stance and focusing on users in our work is absolutely essential.

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.

After a general mapping of the different understandings of affect, this article focuses on two aspects of a Deleuze-Guattarian understanding of affect which are of particular relevance for media and communication studies. The first is understanding affect as potential. It is through the forces of encounter that bodies are affected and that these affections then can be turned into action, into their capacity to affect. The second is understanding the perpetual becoming that takes place through continual encounters between bodies; with each encounter, the body changes, however slightly and subtly. The concept of assemblage that allows one to grasp these dynamics and complexities is discussed as an approach towards a much more complex theoretical grounding for processes of agency and power. Working with affect in media and communication studies, a three-fold strategy will be presented: to analyse how media generate affects and capitalise on them; to analyse what media do - in the sense of mobilizing potential; to analyse phenomena of mediated communication as assemblages. The article ends with challenges and new paths for conducting research on affect.

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