Television in Africa in the digital age / / edited by Gilbert Motsaathebe and Sarah H. Chiumbu

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2021]; ©2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 791.45096
• Soggetto topico: Television broadcasting - Technological innovations - Africa
• Persona (resp. second.): MotsaathebeGilbert; ChiumbuSarah H.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Navigating the digital milieu in the context of Television in Africa: A synchronic appraisal of the disjunctures, continuities and prospects -- Section A. Disjunctures -- Chapter 2. Entertaining Africans: Creative Innovation in the (Internet) Television Space -- Chapter 3. Understanding Netflixs foray into original productions in South Africa: A jet plane and helicopter view -- Chapter 4. Digital Disruption in South African Television News -- Chapter 5. Culturally Reconfigured: Assimilating Oedipus Rex into the Yoruba Mythical Universe through Television Adaptation Processes -- Section B. Continuities -- Chapter 6. Strike fear in the heart of the white men. Hate language on digital television: The case of ZBC Television online news -- Chapter7. Persuasion across platforms: a rhetorical analysis of televised and digitized news reports on economic matters -- Chapter 8. Exodus, Access and Inequalities: The Impact of Digital Migration in Least Developed Countries of Africa -- Section C. Prospects -- Chapter 9. Digitization of Television in Kenya: Changing Trends in Content and Consumption -- Chapter 10. Television Journalism in the Digital Age: Analysing how Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC TV) and Eswatini TV (ESTV) are adapting to the digital era -- Section D. Regulation and Policy -- Chapter 11. Chinese State Capitalism and the Transition to Digital Television in Africa -- Chapter 12. Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting (DTTB) in Botswana: Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 13. Dilemmas in Zimbabwe's Public Broadcasting in the Era of Digitisation -- Chapter 14. Concluding Remarks: Looking Backward, Looking Forward.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of television news, internet television and video on demand platforms, adaptations, digital migration, business strategies and management approaches, PBS, consumption patterns, scheduling and programming, evangelical television, and many others. The book is an important reading for academics, students and television practitioners. Gilbert Motsaathebe, PhD is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Johannesburg. Sarah H. Chiumbu, PhD is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at the University of Johannesburg.
• Titolo autorizzato: Television in Africa in the digital age
• ISBN: 3-030-68854-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910734093403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender and cultural studies in Africa and the diaspora.