Security at the Borders: Transnational Practices and Technologies in West Africa. By Philippe M. Frowd. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 226p. $99.99 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 617-619
ISSN: 1541-0986
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In: Perspectives on politics, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 617-619
ISSN: 1541-0986
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 18, Heft 9, S. 2080-2095
ISSN: 1461-7315
The exponential diffusion of mobile phones in Africa and their ability to interact with other media have created new avenues for individuals to interface with power. These forms of engagement, however, have primarily been interpreted through the lenses of the 'liberation technology' agenda, which privileges the relationship between citizens and the state, neglecting the variety of actors and networks that intervene in shaping governance processes, alongside or in competition with the state. Through an ethnography of two local radio stations in Kenya, this article offers a more realistic picture of mobile–radio interactions and their repercussions on governance. The findings illustrate that (1) while these interactive spaces are open to all listeners with access to a phone, they are in practice inhabited by small cohorts of recurrent characters often connected to existing power structures; (2) even in places where basic services are offered by actors other than the state, including non-governmental organizations and criminal networks, the state continues to represent the imagined figure to which listeners address most of their demands; (3) in contrast to the expectations that authorities will act on claims and grievances made public through the media, other factors, including ethnicity, intervene in facilitating or preventing action.
In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 113, Heft 451, S. 279-299
ISSN: 0001-9909
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 113, Heft 451, S. 279-299
ISSN: 1468-2621
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In: International journal of sociotechnology and knowledge development: IJSKD ; an official publication of the Information Resources Management Association, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 13-28
ISSN: 1941-6261
This paper addresses how state actors in the developing world have influenced technology adoption and favoured the diffusion of certain uses of ICTs while discouraging others. Drawing upon extensive field research and looking at the evolution of ICTs in Ethiopia, it examines how a semi-authoritarian, yet developmentally oriented regime, has actively sought to mediate the – either real or imagined – destabilising aspects of ICTs while embracing them as a tool for nation-building. A constructivist framework as developed in international relations and history of technology is employed to understand how the introduction of the new ICT framework as promoted by international organizations has been mediated both by the results of the socialization of earlier technologies in Ethiopia and by the national project pursued by the local political elite.
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In: Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, Band 5, Heft 1
ISSN: 2165-2627
In: Third world quarterly, Band 36, Heft 8, S. 1510-1526
ISSN: 1360-2241
In: Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, Band 4, Heft 1
ISSN: 2165-2627
In: Third world quarterly, Band 36, Heft 8, S. 1510-1526
ISSN: 0143-6597
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In: Stability: International Journal of Security & Development, Band 4, Heft 1
ISSN: 2165-2627
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