Digital Activism in Zimbabwe

This book investigates the role of the internet and social media in political processes in non-western and non-democratic contexts. Using Zimbabwe as a case study, the book demonstrates how activists and ordinary people deploy social media, particularly Facebook, to subvert an enduring hegemonic state.

Tenford Chitanana is an Independent International Communications Consultant and Communications Specialist at Rana Labs, Kampala, Uganda. He completed his PhD at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Chitanana's research and practice explore the dynamics of power, agency and contestations at the intersection of communication technologies, civil society, and politics.

1. The Information Age and Activism in Non-Democratic Contexts 2. Communication Technologies, Deliberative Democracy and Change 3. Communication, Power, and Politics 4. Repression, Media, and Dissent 5. Continuities in Media and Activism 6. Trajectories and Repertoires of Digital Activism 7. Inherent and Structural Limitations, Communication Technologies in Context 8. Contradictions in Subaltern Organising and Digital Activism 9. The Mundane is Political in Everyday Forms of Activism 10. Dissent and Hegemony in the Information Age