Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change

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Winston Mano (University of Westminster, UK) Loubna El Mkaouar (University of Westminster, UK)

Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age

Challenges, Continuity and Change

Winston Mano (University of Westminster, UK), Loubna El Mkaouar (University of Westminster, UK)

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Routledge
27 May 2024

Media studies; Political structure & processes; Media, information & communication industries; Communications engineering & telecommunications

Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa

Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and authoritative perspectives, including both historical and contemporary digital developments. It traces the evolving forms of ownership of media and communications in specific African contexts, showing how they interact with broader changes in and outside the continent.

The book also shows how Big Techs, such as Meta (formerly known as Facebook), are involved in a scramble for Africa’s digital ecosystem and how their advance brings both opportunities and concerns about ownership and control. The chapters analyse evolving forms of ownership and their implications on media concentration and democracy across Africa. The book offers a nuanced account of how media ownership structures are in some instances captured with an ever-growing and complex ecosystem that also has new opportunities for public interest media.

Offering a significant representation of the trends and diversity of existing media systems, the book goes beyond the postcolonial geographical divisions of North and Sub-Saharan Africa to highlight common patterns and significant similarities and differences of communications ownerships between and within African countries. The contributors expose media and communications ownership patterns in Africa that are centralised and yet decentralising and in some cases, battling, resurging and globalising.

Edited by: Winston Mano (University of Westminster UK), Loubna El Mkaouar (University of Westminster, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 570g
ISBN: 9780367630225
ISBN 10: 0367630222
Series: Routledge Contemporary Africa
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 27 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Winston Mano is a Reader, Course Leader of the MA in Media and Communication and a member of the top-rated Communication Research Institute’s at the University of Westminster, UK. He is also the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Media Studies and a senior research fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Loubna El Mkaouar is a Lecturer and Deputy Course Leader of the MA in Media and Communication and a member of the top-rated Communication Research Institute’s at the University of Westminster, UK.