Communication Rights in Africa
eBook - ePub

Communication Rights in Africa

Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

  1. 258 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Communication Rights in Africa

Emerging Discourses and Perspectives

About this book

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing that they should be considered an integral component of the human rights discourse in Africa.

Drawing on a broad range of case studies across the continent, the volume considers what constitutes communication rights in Africa, who should protect them, against whom, and how communication rights relate to broader human rights. While the case studies highlight the variation in communicative rights experiences between countries, they also coalesce around common tropes and practices for the implementation and expression of communication rights. Deploying a variety of innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, the chapters scrutinise different facets of communication rights in the context of both offline and digital communication realities. The contributions provide illuminating accounts on language rights, digital exclusion, digital activism, citizen journalism, media regulation and censorship, protection of intellectual property rights, politics of mobile data, and politicisation of social media.

This is the first collection to consider communication in Africa using a rights-based lens. The book will appeal to researchers, academics, communication activists, and media practitioners at all levels in the fields of media studies, journalism, human rights, political science, public policy, as well as general readers who are keen to know about the status of communication rights in Africa.

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Yes, you can access Communication Rights in Africa by Tendai Chari, Ufuoma Akpojivi, Tendai Chari,Ufuoma Akpojivi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsements
  3. Half Title
  4. Series
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Dedication
  8. Contents
  9. List of figures
  10. List of tables
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. List of contributors
  13. List of abbreviations
  14. Introduction: Communication Rights in Africa – Theoretical and Practical Considerations
  15. Part I Cultural and Minority Rights
  16. Part II Digital Citizenship
  17. Part III Freedom, Censorship, and Intellectual Property Rights
  18. Part IV Politics of Digital Infrastructures
  19. Index