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Facebook live-streaming, drones and swag selfies: youth culture and visual social media in #ZambiaDecides

Willems, Wendy (2016) Facebook live-streaming, drones and swag selfies: youth culture and visual social media in #ZambiaDecides. Africa at LSE Blog (31 Aug 2016) Blog.

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Abstract

Digital technology is transforming the way in which elections are held globally, including on the African continent. With young voters comprising a substantial part of the electorate, political campaigning is increasingly shifting online. As LSE’s Wendy Willems argues in the second article of a series about the role of digital technology and social media in Zambia’s recent elections, political parties tapped into digital youth culture in a number of interesting ways.

Item Type: Website (Blog)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/
Additional Information: © 2016 The Author
Library of Congress subject classification: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races
T Technology > T Technology (General)
Sets: Departments > Media and Communications
Date Deposited: 08 Sep 2016 09:52
URL: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67629/

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