Type of Resource:
Book Chapter

Year of Publication:
2019

Indicators:
- Challenges
- Trends


Themes:
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use

Author(s): Beschara Karam

This chapter uses the textual analysis of several African films to reflect on the inequalities of the digital divide in Africa. These filmic case studies seek to educate, raise consciousness, and critically reflect on the negative societal and individual effects of the digital divide. In Africa, this digital divide is along race, gender, and class lines. The chapter does not look at the African film industry per se, which falls outside the purview of this chapter. Films, as texts, are important sources of understanding, describing, interpreting, and reflecting social behaviours, realities, norms, values, and ideologies

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvh4zj72?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=e-governance&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3Bed%3D2019%26amp%3BQuery%3De-governance%2Bin%2Bafrica&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3Ac9513a585fa939161368a0b2373f8934

Region of Study:
Africa,

Country of Study:
Africa,

Study Quality
Medium