Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915256
Alessandro Jedlowski
ABSTRACT:In this essay, I revisit the history of the emergence and evolution of the Nigerian screen media industry (Nollywood) through the prism of the concept of “infopolitics” to develop an analysis of the interaction between media technology innovation and state control in Africa. After being a key preoccupation during Cold War, the issue of the state’s capacity to control the production and flow of media content and data within its borders has become again the object of controversial debates in recent years, as shown by the multiplication of research on the issue of “digital sovereignty” and “platform capitalism.” By focusing on an African case study to reflect on issues of global relevance, this essay shows how the analysis of African realities can help us in interrogating and complementing theories formulated in relation to western case studies (and generally uncritically applied to other contexts). Combining first-hand ethnographic data to the analysis of the research results of other scholars who have investigated the emergence and growth of Nollywood over the past decades, this essay follows media producers and their relationship to technologies and the state, over a period of forty years, from the introduction of the videotape to the arrival of streaming platforms. In so doing, this research puts into perspective the “presentism” of many recent works, which tend to see the introduction of new digital technologies as the bearer of an unprecedented historical break, and makes an attempt at highlighting the links of continuity and discontinuity between recent transformations and the technological innovations which preceded them.
ABSTRACT:In this essay, I revisit the history of the emergence and evolution of the Nigerian screen media industry (Nollywood) through the prism of the concept of "infopolitics" to develop an analysis between media technology innovation and state control in Africa.国家控制其境内媒体内容和数据的生产与流动的能力问题在冷战时期成为人们关注的焦点之后，近年来再次成为有争议的争论对象，关于 "数字主权 "和 "平台资本主义 "问题的研究层出不穷就说明了这一点。通过聚焦非洲案例研究来反思具有全球意义的问题，本文展示了对非洲现实的分析如何帮助我们质疑和补充针对西方案例研究（通常不加批判地应用于其他背景）所制定的理论。本文结合第一手人种学数据，分析了其他学者在过去几十年中对诺莱坞的出现和发展进行调查的研究成果，从录像带的出现到流媒体平台的到来，对媒体生产者及其与技术和国家的关系进行了长达四十年的跟踪研究。在这一过程中，本研究对许多近期著作中的 "现时主义 "进行了反思，这些著作倾向于将新数字技术的引入视为前所未有的历史性突破的承载者，并试图强调近期变革与此前技术创新之间的连续性和不连续性联系。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915257
Shweta Krishnan
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915262
Nanna Schneidermann
ABSTRACT:How are young women’s access to and the use of mobile media technologies negotiated and distributed at the urban margins of the tech revolution? This article explores questions and contestations of the legitimate use of phones among women living in township areas on the outskirts of Cape Town, South Africa. I introduce the concept of “intimate infopolitics” to highlight how mobile phones are given meaning and negotiated by and through intimate relations and gendered ideals of knowledge and spatial belonging, condensed in the idea of ordentlikheid (respectability). Paying attention to historical political processes and scale in the gendered access and use of digital media invites researchers to recognize questions of sovereignty and power beyond tech-optimistic discourses on gendered empowerment, and to follow the fraught, partial, and ambiguous processes of managing information and knowledge through media.Hoe word jong vroue se toegang tot en die gebruik van mobiele mediategnologieë onderhandel en versprei by die stedelike grense van die tegnologierevolusie? Hierdie artikel ondersoek vrae en betwistings oor die wettige gebruik van telefone onder vroue wat in township-gebiede aan die buitewyke van Kaapstad, Suid-Afrika woon. Ek stel die konsep van “intieme infopolitiek” bekend om uit te lig hoe selfone betekenis gegee word en onderhandel word deur en deur intieme verhoudings en geslagsideale van kennis en ruimtelike behoort, saamgevat in die idee van ordentlikheid. Aandag te gee aan historiese politieke prosesse en skaal in die geslagtelike toegang en gebruik van digitale media nooi navorsers uit om vrae oor soewereiniteit en mag buite tegnologie-optimistiese diskoerse oor geslagsbemagtiging te erken, en om die belaaide, gedeeltelike en dubbelsinnige prosesse van die bestuur van inligting en kennis deur middel van media.
ABSTRACT:How are young women's access to and the use of mobile media technologies negotiated and distributed at the urban margins of the tech revolution?本文探讨了生活在南非开普敦郊区乡镇地区的女性对合法使用手机的疑问和争议。我引入了 "亲密信息政治学 "这一概念，以强调手机是如何被赋予意义的，又是如何通过亲密关系和性别化的知识与空间归属理想进行谈判的，这些都浓缩在 "体面"（ordentlikheid）这一概念中。关注性别化获取和使用数字媒体的历史政治进程和规模，能让研究人员认识到主权和权力问题，而不仅仅是关于性别赋权的技术乐观主义论述，并关注通过媒体管理信息和知识的充满争议、片面和模糊的过程。这篇文章介绍了在南非卡普斯塔德市的乡镇地区，年轻女性如何在潮湿的环境中使用电话。我提出了 "亲密信息政治学 "的概念，以解释自我决定的意义是如何通过亲密关系、知识的性别理想和空间归属感来赋予和协商的，并将其概括为 "有序性 "的理念。解决历史性的政治问题和平衡数字媒体的性别访问与使用，从来都是对研究者的挑战，即在反神学乐观主义的话语之外，承认对主权和性别赋权权利的要求，并认识到通过媒体治理情报和知识的珍视、片面和模糊的问题。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915254
Luke Forrester
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915261
Scott Ross
ABSTRACT:In northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, local and international non-governmental organizations have, for the last decade, built a network of two-way radios to connect rural communities in order to better protect them from armed groups active in the region. This article moves along this radio network to explore the concepts of remoteness and connection. Rural residents and humanitarians alike describe the region as “enclaved,” drawing on Congolese experiences and conceptions of isolation and vulnerability to appeal for greater connection. The connection oЛered by radios, however, is fragile and contingent, relying on alignments, negotiations, and compromises. The article describes these negotiations at the village level (among NGOs and various local actors) and between NGOs and the state, demonstrating that connection is a negotiated and ongoing process.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915259
Ping-hsiu Lin
{"title":"Michael Herzfeld: An Intellectual Biography by Heng Liu (review)","authors":"Ping-hsiu Lin","doi":"10.1353/anq.2023.a915259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a915259","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51536,"journal":{"name":"Anthropological Quarterly","volume":"10 1","pages":"783 - 786"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139347036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915258
Joel Kuipers
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Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1353/anq.2023.a915252
Victoria Bernal
ABSTRACT:This essay explores the dynamics of extreme speech online in the context of Eritrea's fraught politics. I find the public sphere that Eritreans in diaspora established on a website as constantly open to collapse and subversion, and thus requiring on-going negotiation among participants. The analysis draws on a close reading of a set of online exchanges in response to a narrative posted on a leading Eritrean news and discussion website. The operation of an open public sphere online is especially significant for Eritreans since there is no right to freedom of expression and no independent media inside the country. In heated exchanges online, people’s identities as Eritreans and their loyalties are questioned in spectacular attempts to silence, intimidate, and exclude certain people or ideas. What I also uncover are the strategies used by some posters and the moderator to assert the value of civil discourse and to keep the public forum open and inclusive. The ways that Eritreans engage in and respond to extreme speech in an online forum are interesting for what they reveal about Eritrean politics, but furthermore shed light on the global issue of extreme speech, digital media, and public spheres.
ABSTRACT:This essay explore the dynamics of extreme speech online in the context of Eritrea's fraught politics.我发现散居国外的厄立特里亚人在一个网站上建立的公共领域不断面临崩溃和颠覆，因此需要参与者之间不断协商。分析借鉴了针对厄立特里亚主要新闻和讨论网站上发布的叙述而进行的一系列在线交流的细读。由于厄立特里亚国内没有言论自由权，也没有独立的媒体，因此网上开放公共领域的运作对厄立特里亚人来说尤为重要。在网上激烈的交流中，人们作为厄立特里亚人的身份和忠诚度受到质疑，有人试图压制、恐吓和排斥某些人或某些观点，场面十分壮观。我还发现了一些发帖人和版主所使用的策略，以维护公民言论的价值，保持公共论坛的开放性和包容性。厄立特里亚人在网络论坛上参与和应对极端言论的方式不仅揭示了厄立特里亚的政治，而且还揭示了极端言论、数字媒体和公共领域等全球性问题。
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