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Please join us next week at the CAMRI seminar in Central London: Thomas Tufte [University of Leicester] ‘Mobile communication in Africa: negotiating identities, social relations and life aspirations’ Date: Thursday, 23.02.2017 Time: 1700-1900 309 Regent Street, W1B 2HT Room: UG04 Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/on-the-role-of-mobile-communication-in-africa-tickets-31710443791 Sub-Saharan Africa has in recent years experienced strong media developments along with processes of urbanization, economic growth and political transformation. In this context, how are citizens using the media and communication opportunities to negotiate identities, social relations and job opportunities in everyday life? Through media ethnographic fieldwork with young Kenyan men, this study explores their life course developments. By exploring both diachronic and synchronic dimensions of media use, social practices and cultural imaginaries are unpacked, revealing a terrain of constraints and possibilities around which young Kenyans formulate their life aspirations, and act upon them. Biography: Thomas Tufte is Professor in media and communication at University of Leicester, co-founder and co-director of the Orecomm – Centre for Communication and Glocal Change.Professor Tufte also serves as senior research associate to University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2013-). He has been a visiting scholar at University of Cadiz (Spain) 2012, Rhodes University (South Africa), 2002 and also served as UNESCO Chair of Communication at Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona in the spring semester of 2003. He currently directsthe international research project Critical Perspectives on New Media and Processes of Social Change in the Global South (2013-2017) focusing on Kenya, and recently also directed People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Democracy in East Africa (2009-2015) focusing on Tanzania and Kenya. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------