Cryptopolitics : exposure, concealment, and digital media

Cryptopolitics : exposure, concealment, and digital media /

"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 med...

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Other Authors: Bernal, Victoria (Editor), Pype, Katrien (Editor), Rodima-Taylor, Daivi (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
Series:Anthropology of media ; Volume 12
Subjects:
Information society > Political aspects > Africa.
Digital media > Political aspects > Africa.
Power (Social sciences) > Political aspects > Africa.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Digital media > Political aspects
Information society > Political aspects
Africa
Online Access:Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)
Table of Contents:
  • Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  • Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype
  • The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner
  • KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola
  • The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais
  • Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka
  • The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  • "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal
  • Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali
  • Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal.

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