Type of Resource:
Book Chapter

Year of Publication:
2015

Indicators:
- Enablers


Themes:
- Internet Access, Affordability And Use
- Internet for Democracy

Author(s): Anne Schumann

The Ivoirian Crisis of 2002–7 was accompanied by a media war which has been so virulent that observers have at times labelled Ivoirian media as ‘hate media’ (Witcher, 2006). The vigorous public debate has also taken place on relatively new platforms outside established information channels, such as popular music (Schumann, 2013) and open-air public discussion sites calledparlementsandagoras(Bahi, 2003). As Dina Ligaga observes with reference to Kenya, the ‘internet provides alternative routes of expression of popular culture, bringing to the fore aspects of social and political lives and ideas that would otherwise have remained hidden from

URL
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1mf71kw?turn_away=true&Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=internet&searchText=use&searchText=in&searchText=africa&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3Fpagemark%3DcGFnZU1hcms9NQ%253D%253D%26amp%3BsearchType%3DfacetSearch%26amp%3Bsd%3D2013%26amp%3Bed%3D2019%26amp%3BQuery%3Dinternet%2Buse%2Bin%2Bafrica%26amp%3Brefreqid%3Dsearch%253A53573ef3fff4cdaf58622b1b2e6814d5&ab_segments=0%2Fdefault-2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A226d44989f945f5be99127bf144fab43

Region of Study:
West Africa,

Country of Study:


Study Quality
Medium