The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Part I: Media and Communication Studies in Decolonial, Postcolonial and Protest contexts. - 1. If I were a Carpenter: Reframing debates in Media and Communication Research in Africa, Bruce Mutsvairo. - 2. Can the subaltern think? The Decolonial turn in Communication Research in Africa, Last Moyo and Bruce Mutsvairo. - 3. Decolonising Communication & Media Studies Research: a Smash-and-Grabber s Guide, Colin Chasi. - 4. Decolonising Communication Studies: Advancing the discipline through fermenting participation studies, Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede. - 5. Decolonization and Postcoloniality: The Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa, Christian Agbobli and Marie Soleil Frere. - 6. Researching and Teaching African Media Studies from the Centre : Challenges and Opportunities for Epistemic Resistance, Toussant Nothias. - 7. An-Other thinking 1 Film theory: Film Studies and Decolonisation in Africa, Beschara Karam. - Part II: Conceptualizing and Contextualizing: Lessons and Limitations. - 8. The Four-leafed Clover: Political Economy as a Method of Analysis, Ruth Teer-Tommaselli. - 9. The Southern African Spy machine: Emerging Research on Communications Surveillance and Resistance in the Region, Jane Duncan. - 10. Bridging Critical and Administrative Research Paradigms in the Interest of a Politically Engaged African Research Agenda, Ylva Rodny-Gumede. - 11. Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes, Susana Salgado. - 12. The Social is Political: Media, Protest and Change as a challenge to African media research, Herman Wasserman. - 13. Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The `Communication Revolution Evaluated from Below, Mirjam de Bruijn and Inge Brinkman. - Part III: Cross-disciplinary Approaches in the Digital Age. - 14. The Devil is in the Rumba Text. Commenting on DigitalDepth, Katrien Pype. - 15. Technopolitics and New Media in Africa, Iginio Gagliardone. - 16. Interrogating the Culture of Exclusion in the Diasporic Media activity, Everette Ndlovu. - 17. Law and Innovation in the Somali Territories, Nicole Stremlau. - Part IV New and Old Media: Perspectives, Methodologies, Developments and Ethics. - 18. Terrorists Social Media Messages: A Critical Analysis of Boko Haram s Message and Messaging Techniques, Chris Wolumati Ogbondah and Pita Agbese Ogaba. - 19. Gender Perspectives in Media and Communications Studies in Africa, Kristin Skare Orgeret. - 20. Mono-method research approach and scholar-policy disengagement in Nigerian communication research, Ayobami Ojebode, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Oyewole Adekunle Oladapo and Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele. - 21. Ubuntu and the communication-power nexus, Leyla Haidarian-Tavernaro. - 22. Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research, Suzanne Harris. - 23. Rethinking Media Research in Africa, Tanja Bosch. - 24. This Hard Place and That Hard Terrain: Zimbabweans Doing Media and Cultural Studies On or In Zimbabwe Since the mid 1990, Nhamo Mhiripiri. - 25. BBC and African audience: Insights from ethnography, Muhammed Musa. - 26. For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis, Muhammad Jameel Yusha' u.