Titlebook: Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 2; Challenges and Oppor Martin N. Ndlela,Winston Mano Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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,Misogyny, Social Media and Electoral Democracy in Zimbabwe’s 2018 Elections,s there were factionalist conflicts in the ruling party which resulted in Robert Mugabe’s forced resignation as there were growing fears that his wife Grace Mugabe would succeed him. Social media activity reflected misogyny against Grace whose ambitions were thought to be disgraceful because she was

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Women and Election Activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign,aking the Pads4Girls campaign in the aftermath of the Ugandan 2016 election as a case, the chapter examines how social media can contribute to political change and electoral democracy. Social media’s potential in public communication has been demonstrated during elections globally and in heightened

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Discrimination Against Female Politicians on Social Media: An Analysis of Tweets in the Run-Up to tring the run-up to the July 2018 elections had to contend with diverse forms of sexist harassment online. Although social media offers female politicians a space of self-actualisation, this same space is used to harass them. Through an analysis of specifically selected tweets, this chapter contends

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Youth, Elections and Social Media: Understanding the Critical (Di)Stance Between Young People and Png the 2016 local government elections on social media. In addition, the chapter seeks to understand whether youth at Rhodes University actively sought out political party messages on social media or whether the messages they encountered were incidental on their timelines. Finally, the chapter provi

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Social Media as a New Source of Empowerment in Algeria,hics and independence. The media have not objectively met the public’s needs and expectations because of political interferences and commercial pressures. The results are a big public shift to social media, considered as a new source of news, empowerment and press freedom. The chapter describes and

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#ThisFlag: Social Media and Cyber-Protests in Zimbabwe,challenging the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)’s contested stranglehold on power. In a context where the ruling elite have deployed patriotic history and other related nationalistic paraphernalia, the creative use of the national flag by #ThisFlag protestors suggests that

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,#Zuma Must Fall This February: Homophily on the Echo-Chambers of Political Leaders’ Twitter Accountamber of like-mindedness in social media. The research question guiding this study is: To what extent do the Twitter accounts of selected political leaders in South Africa evidence the presence of ., . and . during a political crisis such as #ZumaMustFall and what is the relationship between these t

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