It's true @Jack knows #Ghana's (and #Nigeria's) Twitter has been active for over 10 years: To learn more read my and @misskstrong's book chapter #ReterritorializingTwitter' in this book edited by
@De_Kosnik and @kpfeldman fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
@De_Kosnik and @kpfeldman fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
'#IfAfricaWasaBar' another great chapter in this volume, using data analytics to read the playful politics of Africa's Twitter in the same volume, by @nehakumar
@avakaya_annam and Trevor Perrier
@avakaya_annam and Trevor Perrier
We discuss #dumsor #BringBackOurGirls and other key moments in a crucial 5year period of Twitter's growth in Africa, thru macrodata, ethnography, and media/social history, discussing concepts 'African mediascape' and the strategic redeployment of West's biased-gaze.
It's not exhaustive (Obama blew up Ghana Twitter in 2009 as well), and #AfricaTwitter and social media has grown tremendously (2go and Mxit were bigger at the time), but lots of key material about the Afripolitan mediascape. Link: fulcrum.org/concern/monogr…
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