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Public Space, Media Space asks how media saturation are transforming public space and our experience of it. From the role of graffiti and Youtube videos of street art in the Cairo revolution, to OOH (Out of Home) advertising, the book is diverse in its approach and global in its coverage

Part I: African Mainstream Media Space, Representation and Digitization -- Chapter 1. African Traditional Media: Looking Back, Looking Forward -- Chapter 2. Kenyan Media Industry: Digitize or Disappear! -- Chapter 3. Digitization of Broadcasting in Nigeria: Opportunity for Participation in Globalization -- Chapter 4. Globalization, Pluralism and Broadcast Operations in Nigeria -- Chapter 5. African Cinema and the Global Movie Industry: A Survey of the Depth of Nollywood's Niche in the Age of Globalization and Digitalization -- Chapter 6. Gender Representation in Nigerian Media Contents and Social Reality -- Part II: Online Media and Usage -- Chapter 7. Closing the Digital Divide Among African American Consumers with Better Content in the United States of America -- Chapter 8. The War of Words in the Digital Space: Twenty-First Century Presidential Public Address as Power Maintenance in Kenya -- Chapter 9. Students' Use of Digital Online Resources in Music Study at Zimbabwe State Universities in Response to COVID-19 -- Chapter 10. The Culture of Online Shaming Targeting Women from the Middle East And North African (MENA) Region -- Part III: Music Media and Online Construction -- Chapter 11. Rethinking Arabness: The Communicative Nexus of Select Lyrics of Female Nigerian and North African Afro-Arab Hip Hop Artistes and Sociological Construction of Women in the Digital Space -- Chapter 12. TikTok: Globalization and the Social Identification of Afrobeats -- Part IV: Health Communication and the Digital Space -- Chapter 13. Pandemics and Conspiracist Ideation: Making Sense of Collective Sense-Making and Health Information Needs in New Media Environments in Africa -- Chapter 14. Health Communication: An International Perspective in the Digital Space -- Part V: Africaness and the Digital Space -- Chapter 15. Decolonizing the African Mind in the Digital Space -- Chapter 16. African Cultures and Representations in the Digital Era -- Part VI: Sports Communication and Digital Space -- Chapter 17. How Sport, Communication, and Economics Are Changing Power Dynamics in the African Family -- Chapter 18. Globalization and Digitisation in Sport Promotion and Development in Ghana: Sport Journalists' Perspectives.

This paper focuses on the importance of non-public social media spaces in contemporary democratic participation at the grassroots level, based on case studies of citizen-led, community and activist groups. The research pilots the concept of participation spaces to reify online and offline contexts where people participate in democracy. Participation spaces include social media presences, websites, blogs, email, paper media, and physical spaces. This approach enables the parallel study of diverse spaces (more or less public; on and offline). Participation spaces were investigated across three local groups, through interviews and participant observation; then modelled as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks (STINs) [1]. This research provides an alternative and richer picture of social media use, within eParticipation, to studies solely based on public Internet content, such as data sets of tweets. In the participation spaces studies most communication takes place in non-public contexts, such as closed Facebook groups, email, and face-to-face meetings. Non-public social media spaces are particularly effective in supporting collaboration between people from diverse social groups. These spaces can be understood as boundary objects [2] and play strong roles in democracy.

While the literature on adolescent usage of the Internet and mobile communication technology is burgeoning, the technological affordance of increased intergenerational contacts and intergenerational friendships received less attention. This project documents how intergenerational virtual networks operate in one particular massively multiplayer online game (World of Warcraft) from the standpoint of adolescent players. Online social worlds are similar to offline settings in a lot of ways. Users must obey certain behavioral standards and follow established rules and moral codes to participate. Despite accounts of online democracy and networked individualism, control and authority is central to the functioning of these environments. Power-relationships are structured by technological protocols and affordances. However, within the social space created by technology, participants actively create and re-create cultural customs shaping experience. Using the ethnographic methods of participant observation and semi-structured, open-ended interviews, this project documents the ways a different form of mature behavior, ematurity, is emerging in online spaces. Ematurity means that skilled adolescents with the right set of cultural toolkits and impression management techniques are able to participate as social equals in adult governed environments. The main foundation of emature habitus is social class. Ematurity allows young people to maintain desirable and acceptable social selves in adultist environments. While ematurity is redefining the currently narrow means of adult-youth interaction and friendship, it does not signal the end of childhood.

The relevance of the current topic is stipulated by the fact that terrorism is one of the most difficult and dangerous phenomena nowadays. Today terrorist attacks have become increasingly rampant, and some researchers even claim that the world is entering the era of terrorism. It stands to reason that terrorism is a global challenge of these days. Terrorism is the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

Media Space: 20+ Years of Mediated Life is loosely divided into three different, but interconnected, approaches to media space research. Each part opens with an introduction that lays out how readers can best approach the book, and provides a basic guide to the theory and research literature, technological developments and other notable events to help contextualize the book. The 'social ' approach uses the rhetoric and methods familiar to a CSCW audience, but moves into actual situations that involve close working bonds, broken trust, shared joy, community building, interpersonal tension, anxiety etc. The section on 'spatial' approaches guides the reader through an intellectual landscape of spatiality, the 'communications' part is a field guide to sense-making in the as-lived mediated condition, demonstrating that media space sense-making combines an understanding of in-the-moment alongside sense made of existence in the world and reflecting upon it.

The article is devoted to consideration and philosophical research of problem of informative war in media space. Informative war is examined as difficult technology of social manipulation which is carried out by MASS-MEDIA. It will be that such modern informative war is the multifaceted enough and multilevel phenomenon. The informative context of russian aggression against Ukraine is analyzed and grounded his unprecedentedness on scale of opposition, informative accompaniment and by the level of produced content of different quality, value and setting. The basic methods of distribution of destabilizing information, which diffuses pessimism, fear and passivity, disappointment for those or other leaders, political guidance of the state etc. are analyzed.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: how is democracy? -- 1 Spaces of representation: where is the public? -- 2 The production of communicative spaces: formations of the public -- 3 Media, communication and legitimacy: representing the public sphere -- 4 Technologies of citizenship: assembling media publics -- 5 The public use of legal reasoning: the First Amendment as communications policy -- 6 Deficits of communication: practising democracy in European Union media policy -- 7 Media, development and democratisation: mediated citizenship in South Africa -- Conclusion: culture and democracy -- Bibliography -- Index