James Odhiambo Ogone
Biographic Data
| ID | 358967 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Odhiambo Ogone |
| GIVEN NAMES | James Odhiambo |
| FAMILY NAME | Ogone |
| SIGNATURE | OGONE J O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5901-3349 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jocular politics and transcultural discourse: Trevor Noah’s comedy as African European cultural critique
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media
The popularity of football in Africa is evident in the widespread viewership of televised top world league matches across the continent. Entertaining as they are to African fans, the broadcast images raise significant questions regarding the political implications of sports television as a medium for conveying cultural content. The matches are often played in far-off places and feature hardly any African commentators. New media technologies prese…
Remixing Transnational Media: Global Cultural Flows and their Hermeneutic Navigation in Kenyan DJ Afro Movies
One of the prominent features of contemporary global modernity is mobility in its various manifestations, among which are transnational media. In the absence of a robust film industry in Kenya, foreign films have tended to monopolize the market. Of significance is the fact that the foreign films grant their local audiences the necessary access to global cultural flows. However, in the process of consuming such films, local audiences have had to c…
Mobile phones in Africa: The politics of cultural and material integration into local economies
The rapid expansion of mobile telephony in Africa has been the subject of many debates both in the academia and industry. However, such discourse has tended to focus more on the technology itself rather than its users. This article seeks to frame mobile phones as modern technologies whose contextual uses are heavily entangled in the unique socio-economic dynamics of the African continent. Here the focus is on the African informal economy and the …
Remediating orality: The cultural domestication of video technology in Kenya
The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality has been compelled to reinvent itself by means of appropriating the same media for its survival. The result has been a process that seeks to recontextu…
Mobile phones in Africa: The politics of cultural and material integration into local economies
The rapid expansion of mobile telephony in Africa has been the subject of many debates both in the academia and industry. However, such discourse has tended to focus more on the technology itself rather than its users. This article seeks to frame mobile phones as modern technologies whose contextual uses are heavily entangled in the unique socio-economic dynamics of the African continent. Here the focus is on the African informal economy and the …
Remediating orality: The cultural domestication of video technology in Kenya
The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality has been compelled to reinvent itself by means of appropriating the same media for its survival. The result has been a process that seeks to recontextu…
Remediating orality: The cultural domestication of video technology in Kenya
The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality has been compelled to reinvent itself by means of appropriating the same media for its survival. The result has been a process that seeks to recontextu…
Mobile phones in Africa: The politics of cultural and material integration into local economies
The rapid expansion of mobile telephony in Africa has been the subject of many debates both in the academia and industry. However, such discourse has tended to focus more on the technology itself rather than its users. This article seeks to frame mobile phones as modern technologies whose contextual uses are heavily entangled in the unique socio-economic dynamics of the African continent. Here the focus is on the African informal economy and the …
Remixing Transnational Media: Global Cultural Flows and their Hermeneutic Navigation in Kenyan DJ Afro Movies
One of the prominent features of contemporary global modernity is mobility in its various manifestations, among which are transnational media. In the absence of a robust film industry in Kenya, foreign films have tended to monopolize the market. Of significance is the fact that the foreign films grant their local audiences the necessary access to global cultural flows. However, in the process of consuming such films, local audiences have had to c…
Jocular politics and transcultural discourse: Trevor Noah’s comedy as African European cultural critique
Mimicry of European Football Commentary: Arap Uria’s Comic Lip-Sync Impressions in Kenyan Social Media
The popularity of football in Africa is evident in the widespread viewership of televised top world league matches across the continent. Entertaining as they are to African fans, the broadcast images raise significant questions regarding the political implications of sports television as a medium for conveying cultural content. The matches are often played in far-off places and feature hardly any African commentators. New media technologies prese…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Comedy (2 works)