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50566-01 - Übung: African Digital Revolution or Digital Revolution in Africa? (3 KP)
| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | unregelmässig |
| Dozierende | Jacob Geuder (jacob.geuder@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | The social and political impacts of new digital technologies are visible in African cities, African countries and much beyond: Digital revolution everywhere?! The upheavels of 2010/2011 in Egypt, Tunisia and many other countries were labelled as "facebook revolutions" by enthuisastic journalist in the USA, while Graffiti's in Cairo stated that the "revolution will not be tweeted". The “Facebook factor” has become an almost inevitable element in contemporary political struggles and is worth to be examined in depth. The booming spread of mobile phones and mobile Internet has pushed these transformations with a speed of light in various African contexts, which the social sciences are running after. This course “African Digital Revolution or Digital Revolution in Africa” discusses how “digital revolutions” are actually taking place: Where and what infrastructure is being installed by whom? How are these infrastructures being appropriated? And what are the real and potential effects of these developments? Moving beyond techno-optimism and techno-pessimism, the focus will be on the specificities of developing digital cultures as much as their structural embedding: What is the difference between Facebook in Senegal and Facebook in Zimbabwe? After gaining an overview of relevant conceptualizations of “digital revolutions” in the literature, students are asked to appropriate social media and digital tools with social science methodologies to create their own studies. “One of the curious aspects of the 21st century was the great delusion… that freedom of speech and freedom of expression were best exercised on technological platforms owned by corporations dedicated to making as much money as possible.” (Jareett Kobek) If the author of “I hate the Internet” is right: Is it even possible to speak of African digital revolutions as an emancipatory transformation? |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | kein spezifischer Einsatz |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Governance and Politics (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Sachthemen der Ethnologie (Bachelor Studienfach: Ethnologie) |
| Prüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Belegen bei Nichtbestehen | beliebig wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Zentrum für Afrikastudien |