By Kehbuma Langmia
This ebook argues for hybridity of Western and African cultures inside cybercultural and subcultural varieties of verbal exchange. Kehbuma Langmia argues that after either Western and African cultures merge jointly via new varieties of electronic communique, marginalized populations in Africa may be able to include verbal exchange, that can assist in the socio-cultural and political improvement of the continent. however, the publication additionally engages Richard McPhail’s digital Colonization concept with a view to display how constructing parts similar to Africa event a brand new type of imperialistic subjugation due to digital and electronic verbal exchange. Globalization and Cyberculture illustrates how new different types of communique inculcate age-old conventional sorts of communications into Africa’s cyberculture whereas complicating notions of identification, dependency, and the electronic divide gap.
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Wrongfully claimed divine authority for the relativities of one culture” (p. 2). They transplanted this perennial view through sensitization to other humans outside the fringes of Europe and America. Their biblical story of Eden, according to Merchant (2003), has provided a unique concept of human life to the Westerner, as palpably seen in the form and style of their malls, “main streets, gated community and the Internet” (p. 1). ). A good 20 GLOBALIZATION AND CYBERCULTURE number of them are nonbelievers, atheists, and agnostics, and that often creates tension between secularism and religion, especially in the corridors of policy-making decisions and power exercises.
PRINT MEDIA A good number of African media scholars (Alzouma 2010; Akinboye and Popoola 2010; Tanjong and Ngwa 2002; Tunstall 2008) have discussed print media’s evolution, dissemination, and impact in tropical Africa. The argument has revolved around the role and impact of Western-style press, readership, and development in Africa. True, African people had little or no apparent daily circulation of newspapers prior to the arrival of the colonial master. It is difficult to wrap our minds around the reason for this, but suffice it to say that message transmission, from a strictly African cultural perspective, varied according to the traditions, customs, and culture of a given tribe or region, between groups of people.
215) And so, we weep for the demise of interpersonal, in-person communication that the twenty-first-century communication landscape is threatening to obliterate. The electronic universe of impersonal, posthuman interaction is taking over, and the encoder and the decoder negotiate terms of communication in cyberspace. The electronic wall that separates the encoder and decoder is a bottleneck to fathoming all the above-mentioned processes to warrant nonverbal energy transmission to both parties. So, we lament the death, or the eventual death, of in-person communication (see article by Donna Ried and Fraser Reid 2004, “Texting and Talking”).
