LEADER 05533nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910823678503321 005 20240313161935.0 010 $a1-283-00487-9 010 $a9786613004871 010 $a9956-579-03-3 010 $a9956-579-01-7 010 $a9956-578-94-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000079528 035 $a(EBL)1135114 035 $a(OCoLC)830165957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000675159 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11365294 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000675159 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10669689 035 $a(PQKB)11762028 035 $a(OCoLC)715154205 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse22132 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1135114 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10448533 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL300487 035 $a(PPN)187342733 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1135114 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000079528 100 $a20101226d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhere are you Africa? $echurch and society in the mobile phone age /$fCastor M. Goliama 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBamenda, Cameroon $cLangaa$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-578-45-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; The Mobile Phone and its Emergent Cultures; Quest for Mobile Phone Theology in Africa; Mobile Cultures, Corruption and the Church in Africa; Chapter Outline; Notes; CHAPTER ONE - Media of Social Communications in Pre-Mobile phone Africa; Oral Media; Visits; Meetings and Marketplaces; Talking Drums; Print and Electronic Media; Ecumenical and Interreligious Dialogue per Radio-call; Gospel Music; Political Manipulation of Gospel Music; Gospel Music and HIV / AIDS; African Gilms with Religious Themes 327 $aHallelujah Films and Ecumenical / Interreligious DialogueConcluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER TWO - Is the Mobile Phone Liberating Africa?; The Mobile Phone as a Transformative Factor; Mobile Phones and Africa's Communication ""Revolution""; Mobile Communication ""Revolution"" and the ""Wealth Paradox""; Mobile Phones and Poverty Alleviation; Optimistic Signs; Mobile phone as Globalisation: Have the Rules Changed?; Sacrifices of the Poor at the Altar of Modernity; Mobile Phone Mania; Polarisation between the Rich and the Poor; Online Beggars and Dependency Syndrome 327 $aFeminisation of the Mobile Phone and African WomenAmplifying the Voices of African Women; which Mobiles are Suitable for African Women?; Enganging Mobile in Health Issues; Globalisation of African Traditional Healers; Mobiles and Democratisation of Africa; 'Paparazzi-boom' and Empowerment of Whistleblowers; Spiritual Undertones of Mobile Communications; Will the Rosary Survive?; The Mobile Phone and the Idolatry of Work; Faith Communities and Negotiation of Mobile Technologies; Negotiation with Teleophone by Amish Church; The 'Kosher' Cell-phone in Israel; Concluding Remarks; Notes 327 $aCHAPTER THREE - Mobile Cultures and Ubuntu Paradigm of SolidarityAnatomy of Mobile Cultures; Ubuntu Philosophy of Life; Ubuntu-enhancing Mobile Cultures; Solidarity in Sharing Mobile Handsets; Crossing Social Divides and Interconnectedness; The Mobile Question ""Where are you?""; Virtual versus Face-to-face Communication; Youth-empowering Mobile Cultures; Women and Subversion of Traditional Gender Roles; Mobile Reinforcement of Social Integrity; Mutual Empowerment between Migrant and Home Folks; Anti-Ubuntu Mobile Cultures; When 'Absent-presence' Overshadows Neighbour 327 $aIntrusion of Public OrderServing Two Masters at Time; The Youth now ""hanging out"" Digitally; African Women: Digitally confined to the ""Kitchen""; Mobile Gossip and Intrusion of Private Life; Mobile Addiction Tendencies; Mobile Alibis and Denialist Attitudes of African Leaders; Uncritical Consumption of Mobile-mediated Products; Utilitarian Mobile Working Cultures; Mobile Cultures and the Millstones of Migration; ""Absent Presence"" and the Culture of Blame; Fragility of Ubuntu Solidarity in Current Africa; Concluding Remarks; Notes; CHAPTER FOUR - Mobile Cultures and Social Justice 327 $aMedia as ""Gifts of God"" 330 $aThis is an original and innovative study of mobile phones in Africa from a theological perspective. The First and the Second Special Assemblies for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, held in Rome in 1994 and 2009 respectively, made an urgent appeal to the Church in Africa to employ various media forms of social communications for evangelization and the promotion of justice and peace. Evidently, electronic media are now increasingly used for evangelization across Africa. The proliferation of the mobile phone in Africa is a most welcome development to this end. On the basis of a thorough review of 606 $aCell phones$xSocial aspects$zAfrica 606 $aCommunication and culture$zAfrica 606 $aSocial interaction$xTechnological innovations 615 0$aCell phones$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCommunication and culture 615 0$aSocial interaction$xTechnological innovations. 700 $aGoliama$b Castor M$01658919 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823678503321 996 $aWhere are you Africa$94013262 997 $aUNINA