Globalization and Cyberculture: An Afrocentric Perspective

Langmia, Kehbuma

This book argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures within cybercultural and subcultural forms of communication. Kehbuma Langmia argues that when both Western and African cultures merge together through new forms of digital communication, marginalized populations  in Africa are able to embrace communication, which could help in the socio-cultural and political development of the continent. On the other hand, the book also engages Richard McPhail’s Electronic Colonization Theory in order to demonstrate how developing areas such as Africa experience a new form of imperialistic subjugation because of electronic and digital communication. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new forms of communication inculcate age-old traditional forms of communications into Africa’s cyberculture while complicating notions of identity, dependency, and the digital divide gap.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-04-29

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9783319837741

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47584-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 136