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 toconsider 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.

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Introduction. Cryptopolitics and Digital Media
Chapter 1. Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa: Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations
Chapter 2. Social Media and Sounding Out in the Cryptopolitical Landscape of the Burundian Conflict
Chapter 3. Digital (Dis)order, Twitter Hashtags, and the Performance of Politics in Kenya
Chapter 4. The Muslim Mali Video Game: Revisiting the Religious-Security-Postcolonial Nexus in Popular Culture
Chapter 5. Algorithmic Power in a Contested Digital Public: Cryptopolitics and Identity in the Somali Conflict
Chapter 6. The Cryptopolitics of Digital Mutuality
Chapter 7. This Dictatorship Is a Joke: Eritrean Politics as Tragicomedy
Chapter 8. Regulating Refugees: Technologies, Bodies, and Belonging in Kenya
Conclusion. Studying Cryptopolitics
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