Foreword / by Stuart AllanIntroduction / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai and Jason Whittaker Online vs. traditional journalism practice. Back to the future: re-invigorating the "newsroom genre" to study social media use in developing contexts / Marenet Jordann The South African mainstream press in the online environment: successes, opportunities and challenges / Johanna Mavhungu and Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara Converging technologies, converging spaces, converging practices: the shaping of digital cultures and practices on radio / Last Moyo Zimbabwe's mainstream press in the "social media age": emerging practices, cultures and normative dilemmas / Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara Ethics and regulation. Online journalism under pressure: an Ethiopian account / Terje S. Skjerdal The use of social media as news sources by South African political journalists / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Nathalie Hyde-Clarke Online journalism and politics. Immediacy and openness in a digital Africa: networked-convergent journalisms in Kenya / Okoth Fred Mudhai Online journalism, citizen participation and engagement in Egypt / Ahmed El Gody Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: a critical analysis / Sahar Khamis and Katherine Vaughn J-blogging and the "agenda cutting" phenomena in Egypt ; Nagwa Abdel Salam Fahmy ; Consumption and networking online news media consumption cultures among Zimbabwean citizens: "home and away" / Tendai Chari The Internet, diasporic media and online journalism in West Africa / Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u "Our listeners would rather call than post messages on Facebook": new media and community radio in Kenya / George Ogola Online forums: how the voices of readers are reshaping the sphere of public debate in Burkina Faso / Marie-Soleil Frere Epilogue / by Chris Paterson. |