04565nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-48431-5 DE-He213 20251030113138.0 cr nn 008mamaa 241012s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031484315 978-3-031-48431-5 10.1007/978-3-031-48431-5 doi JF20-2112 JPQ bicssc POL028000 bisacsh JPQ thema Political Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa, Volume I [electronic resource] : Media and Democracy / edited by Isaac Mhute, Esther Mavengano. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. XV, 229 p. 2 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 1. Introduction: The Nexus between Media, Language and Political Communication in sub-Saharan Africa -- 2. Civic Engagement, Public Participation and Trust in Digital Space: The Emerging New Face of Democracy in Africa -- 3. Mass Media and Politics in Africa: A Qualitative Appraisal -- 4. A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Construction of Socio-political Ideologies in Selected sub-Saharan African Films -- 5. Subverting State Censorship: Social Media and the Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy in Uganda -- 6. Invectives of Language in Ghanaian and Zimbabwean Political Discourse: Participatory Politics and Social Media -- 7. Challenges Confronting South African Government in Transforming Public Governance and Enforcing Leadership Accountability -- 8. The Architecture of Political Expediency in Zimbabwean Politics: Post-Event Functionality and Image Repair -- 9. Political Party Factionalism and Tabloidization in Zimbabwe -- 10. Data Accessibility and Digital Democracy: Unpacking the Political Transformation Problem in Zimbabwe -- 11. The Motifs of Necropolitics, Rulership and Zombification in Zimbabwe’s Polemics of Governance: A Case Study of Julius Chingono’s Not Another Day -- 12 Conclusion: Notable Lessons for the Future of the sub-Saharan Africa Region. This book is one of two volumes that examines the role of political communication, media and language in transforming politics, governance and democracy in southern Africa. Interdisciplinary in approach, this first volume assesses themes including participatory politics, mass media, digital censorship, and social media in Sub-Saharan politics. It also considers how politicians utilise language and the media to legitimate their authority, influence citizens’ behaviour, and the ways in which they vote. It will appeal to all those interested in governance, political communication, media studies and African politics. Isaac Mhute is Associate Professor in the Department of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Midlands State University, Zimbabwe and Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Esther Mavengano is Lecturer in the Department of English and Media Studies, Great Zimbabwe University, Zimbabwe and a Research Fellow at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. . Political science. 58714 Communication in politics. 65259 Mass media Political aspects. 60749 Communication. 59615 Governance and Government. Political Communication. 67745 Media Policy and Politics. 68431 Media and Communication. Mhute, Isaac. editor. (orcid)0000-0003-3049-1544 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3049-1544 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 78765 Mavengano, Esther. editor. (orcid)0000-0003-2499-4508 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2499-4508 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 85903 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031484308 Printed edition: 9783031484322 Printed edition: 9783031484339 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48431-5 ZDB-2-POS ZDB-2-SXPI 64138 64138