Television in Africa in the digital age / edited by Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah Chiumbu.
Motsaathebe, Gilbert, editor.; Chiumbu, Sarah, editor.
2021
PN1992.3.A35
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Title
Television in Africa in the digital age / edited by Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah Chiumbu.
ISBN
9783030688547 (electronic bk.)
3030688542 (electronic bk.)
3030688534
9783030688530
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68854-7
Publication Details
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 295)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-68854-7 doi
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PN1992.3.A35
Dewey Decimal Classification
791.45096
Summary
This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of television news, internet television and video on demand platforms, adaptations, digital migration, business strategies and management approaches, PBS, consumption patterns, scheduling and programming, evangelical television, and many others. The book is an important reading for academics, students and television practitioners. Gilbert Motsaathebe, PhD is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg. Sarah H. Chiumbu, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Johannesburg.
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Motsaathebe, Gilbert, editor.
Chiumbu, Sarah, editor.
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Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.
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Print version: 9783030688530
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Chapter 1. Navigating the digital milieu in the context of Television in Africa: A synchronic appraisal of the disjunctures, continuities and prospects
Section A. Disjunctures
Chapter 2. Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space
Chapter 3. Understanding Netflixs foray into original productions in South Africa: A jet plane and helicopter view
Chapter 4. Digital Disruption in South African Television News
Chapter 5. Culturally Reconfigured: Assimilating Oedipus Rex into the Yoruba Mythical Universe through Television Adaptation Processes
Section B. Continuities
Chapter 6. Strike fear in the heart of the white men. Hate language on digital television: The case of ZBC Television online news
Chapter7. Persuasion across platforms: a rhetorical analysis of televised and digitized news reports on economic matters
Chapter 8. Exodus, Access and Inequalities: The Impact of Digital Migration in Least Developed Countries of Africa
Section C. Prospects
Chapter 9. Digitization of Television in Kenya: Changing Trends in Content and Consumption
Chapter 10. Television Journalism in the Digital Age: Analysing how Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC TV) and Eswatini TV (ESTV) are adapting to the digital era
Section D. Regulation and Policy
Chapter 11. Chinese State Capitalism and the Transition to Digital Television in Africa
Chapter 12. Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) in Botswana: Prospects and Challenges
Chapter 13. Dilemmas in Zimbabwe's Public Broadcasting in the Era of Digitisation
Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks: Looking Backward, Looking Forward.

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