By Susana Salgado
This well timed ebook fills an immense hole within the literature at the impression of the net and new media on Portuguese talking African international locations. in line with wide box paintings through the area the writer examines the impression of the web within the transition to democracy in Africa, and asks even if there are new chances for well known activism to emerge from evolving conversation environments and media systems.
The publication analyses the several types of democracy, the idea that of improvement, and addresses the talk in regards to the courting among democracy and improvement and explores the effect of the media within the democratization strategy, the guarantees that electronic media carry to this approach and to improvement, and the consequences of the African electronic divide. In sure nations during this sector democracy and self sufficient information media are of their infancy yet are beginning to take carry, giving a good chance to watch the dynamics of civil society and the impression of elevated freedom, new vote casting powers and new media specifically. The publication bargains very important insights into the jobs and services that the media regularly, and the web specifically, can practice within the production of a extra democratic society, in addition to in empowering and teaching voters in democratic values.
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As argued by Schmitt-Beck and Voltmer, “transition to democracy is a fragile and highly complex process, the success of which is dependent on a number of interrelated factors” (2007: 118). According to these authors, some of the most important factors influencing the processes of democratic transition are citizens’ involvement and widespread popular support, which are largely influenced by the media’s representation of political matters: “This argument draws its significance from the fact that the media are the main, often the only, source from which citizens learn about politics” (2007: 118).
The media’s influence also is potentially more accentuated in cases where the political opposition is weak and where there is a low level of organization within civil society structures. Citizens tend to be more easily influenced when they are not exposed to competing interpretations of the same issues. Behind such argument is the idea that when there are no strong civil society organizations, the media tend to occupy the space left to debate and play an even more crucial role in selecting and framing issues.
Some of them have recent pasts marked by colonization, civil wars and ethnic conflict. Large segments of the population still experience poverty or extreme poverty, lack of basic conditions of living, very low levels of literacy, and latent conflict. At the same time, levels of political control over the media tend to be high and freedom is still conditional in many ways. Culture, which is mainly oral and in some cases bears tribal influences, is different, and can shape in different ways how people perceive politics and how they understand the basic features of democracy.
