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Cryptopolitics

Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media

Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, Daivi Rodima-Taylor (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

253 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-029-9 (ISBN)

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Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, “cryptopolitics,” are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media toconsider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age.

Victoria Bernal is a cultural anthropologist and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. Her articles and chapters have appeared in various collections as well as in anthropological, African Studies, and interdisciplinary journals including American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Global Networks, Comparative Studies in Society and History, African Studies Review, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review.

List of Figures

Introduction: Cryptopolitics and Digital Media in Africa

Katrien Pype, Victoria Bernal, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Chapter 1. Four Ways of Not Saying Something in Digital Kinshasa: Or, On the Substance of Shadow Conversations

Katrien Pype

Chapter 2. The Power to Conceal in an Age of Social Media

Simon Turner

Chapter 3. KOT, Digital Practices and the Performance of Politics in Kenya

George Ogola

Chapter 4. The “Muslim Mali” Game: Revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture

Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais

Chapter 5. Algorithmic Power in a Contested Digital Public: Crypto-politics and Identity in the Somali Conflict

Peter Chonka

Chapter 6. The Cryptopolitics of Digital Mutuality

Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Chapter 7. “This Dictatorship is a Joke: Eritrean Politics as Tragicomedy”

Victoria Bernal

Chapter 8. Digital Security in an African “Sanctuary City”

Lisa Poggiali

Conclusion: Studying Cryptopolitics

Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal

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Erscheinungsdatum	21.06.2023
Reihe/Serie	Anthropology of Media
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Kryptologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-029-5 / 1805390295
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-029-9 / 9781805390299
Zustand	Neuware