Digital democracy, analogue politics: how the internet era is transforming Kenya
London:
Zed Books
(2018), xxiv, 273 pp., bibliogr. p.231-259, index
ISBN 978-1-78699-431-8
"Explores the drastic efforts being made by elites to contain online activism, as well as how ‘fake news’, a failed digital vote-counting system and the incumbent president’s recruitment of Cambridge Analytica contributed to tensions around the 2017 elections. Reframing digital democracy from the African perspective, Nyabola’s ground-breaking work opens up new ways of understanding our current global online era." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction, 1
I. ANALOGUE POLITICS
1 2007: the violent origins of Kenya's digital decade, 17
2 Avatars in the square: the orising the Kenyan public sphere, 31
3 Collision course: where analogue meets digital, 49
4 Rattling the snake without getting bitten: new media usurping traditional media in Kenya, 79
II. DIGITAL DEMOCRACY?
5 An African country in the digital age: the making and uses of #KOT, 101
6 Redefining community: the politics of public performances of empathy, 115
7 Women at work: Kenyan feminist organising on social media, 127
8 Politics, predators and profit: ethnicity, hate speech and digital colonialism, 157
III. HISTORY NOT LEARNED FROM
9 2017: the most expensive election, 181
10 Conclusion, 211
I. ANALOGUE POLITICS
1 2007: the violent origins of Kenya's digital decade, 17
2 Avatars in the square: the orising the Kenyan public sphere, 31
3 Collision course: where analogue meets digital, 49
4 Rattling the snake without getting bitten: new media usurping traditional media in Kenya, 79
II. DIGITAL DEMOCRACY?
5 An African country in the digital age: the making and uses of #KOT, 101
6 Redefining community: the politics of public performances of empathy, 115
7 Women at work: Kenyan feminist organising on social media, 127
8 Politics, predators and profit: ethnicity, hate speech and digital colonialism, 157
III. HISTORY NOT LEARNED FROM
9 2017: the most expensive election, 181
10 Conclusion, 211
