The Biopolitics of Media Currency

Transforming the Ghana Film Unit into TV3

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2098518
AutoresPeter J Bloom (0000-0003-1108-0379, University of California, Santa Barbara, autor correspondente)
Ano2021
Volume64
Fascículo1
Páginas57-70
Data de publicação2021-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2020.79
OpenAlexW3153102603
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas18

This article is an examination and extension of concepts that Achille Mbembe presented in his 2016 African Studies Association Abiola Lecture. In particular, "cognitive assemblages" are elaborated upon to consider how a shifting understanding of media has become part of a neoliberal digital media platform promoted by the Ghanaian state in association with Malaysia. Mbembe's invocation of the "injunction to decolonize" is also discussed through information capture and data mining to consider the extent to which the promise of a digital future is a form of neo-colonialism or an opportunity for an expanded digital commons

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