Journalism and Social Media in Africa

Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of a relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies .

Chris Paterson is a senior lecturer and leader of the MA in International Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published extensively on news agencies, international journalism and communication in Africa.