For years, pundits have trumpeted the earthshattering changes that big data and smart
networks will soon bring to our cities. But what if cities have long been built for intelligence …

Globally, there has been a continuing increase in the number of community radio stations.
With this comes the need to better understand the direction that community radio should take …

Dissidents exist in every nation, always have, and perhaps always will–existing in that
precarious space between being patriots and enemies of the state. Social media, on the …

This comparative multi-sited study examines how, why and when politically engaged youths
in distinctive national and social movement contexts use Facebook to facilitate political …

Utilizing a constellation of conceptual tenets drawn from critical digital technology theory,
field theory and concepts of digital democracy, this article argues that the post-coup period …

The Zimbabwean government has been criticized across scholarship for its lack of sincerity
in ensuring media plurality, especially in the radio broadcasting sector. In 2020, when …

This article examines the creative appropriation of new media technologies by the producers
of a pirate radio station (Radio Voice of the People) beaming into Zimbabwe from South …

African radio is seen as a powerful instrument capable of integrating ordinary voices in
democratisation debates. Mobile phones and social media applications such as Facebook …

The advent of digital media, which incorporates social media, has increased the visibility of
the othered indigenous people. The Tonga people of Zimbabwe belong to the …

This study seeks to comprehend how the mobile phone and the Internet change power
relations between citizens and the state, by assessing the possibilities they allow for in terms …