Cryptopolitics : exposure, concealment, and digital media / edited by Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor

Includes bibliographical references and index

Cryptopolitics and digital media in Africa / Victoria Bernal, Katrien Pype, and Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- Four ways of not saying something in digital Kinshasa, or, On the substance of shadow conversations / Katrien Pype -- The power to conceal in an age of social media / Simon Turner -- KOT, digital practices and the performance of politics in Kenya / George Ogola -- The "Muslim Mali" game : revisiting the religious-security-post-colonial nexus in Malian popular culture / Marie Deridder and Olivier Servais -- Algorithmic power in a contested digital public : crypto-politics and identity in the Somali conflict / Peter Chonka -- The cryptopolitics of digital mutuality / Daivi Rodima-Taylor -- "This dictatorship is a joke : Eritrean politics as tragicomedy" / Victoria Bernal -- Digital security in an African "sanctuary city" / Lisa Poggiali -- Conclusion : studying cryptopolitics / Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Katrien Pype, and Victoria Bernal

"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on African societies, Cryptopolitics brings together empirically grounded studies of digital media to consider public culture, sociality, and power in all its forms, illustrating the analytical potential of cryptopolitics to elucidate intimate relationships, political protest, and economic strategies in the digital age"-- Provided by publisher