Cryptopolitics Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Fo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: FWO (Fund for Scientific Research in Flanders) funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Bernal, Victoria, editor (editor), Pype, Katrien, editor, Rodima-Taylor, Daivi, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books [2023]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Anthropology of Media Series
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786714906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  • Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype
  • The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner
  • KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola
  • The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais
  • Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka
  • The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor
  • "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal
  • Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali
  • Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal.