Technologies and African Societies in Pandemic Times

Name: Technologies and African Societies in Pandemic Times | Using Technology to Survive and Thrive During the Covid-19 Era
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Using Technology to Survive and Thrive During the Covid-19 Era

Saikou Y. Diallo Jean-Jacques Bogui Julien Atchoua(Herausgeber*in)

Wiley-Scrivener (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 26. Juni 2023

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1. Covid-19, Information, and Communication
Chapter 1. Reinventing Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Era: The Uses of Information and Communication Technologies as Tactics in an Abidjanese "Ordinary Courtyard"
1.1. Introduction
1.1.1. Context and positioning of the research problem
1.1.2. Field and methods
1.2. Results
1.2.1. Social relational uses
1.2.2. Hedonic and playful uses
1.2.3. Emerging from the inactivity brought about by the pandemic
1.2.4. Uses for information retrieval and educational purposes
1.3. Conclusion
1.4. References
Chapter 2. Ambivalence of the Use of Digital Technologies in Public Communication About the Pandemic in Côte d'Ivoire
2.1. Introduction: Ivorian context of digital technology use in the Covid-19 period
2.1.1. Literature and defining the Covid-19 problem in the Ivorian context
2.1.2. Objectives and research questions
2.2. Conceptualization of the social uses of technology in public communication
2.3. Collection and method for analyzing ambivalent uses of digital social media in the face of Covid-19 in Côte d'Ivoire
2.4. Digital social media, a popular source of information about the pandemic and a source of rumors and miscommunication
2.4.1. Digital social media, the preferred source of information
2.4.2. Rumors and fake news on digital social media, a remedy for miscommunication
2.5. Conclusion: understanding the ambivalence of digital social media use in times of Covid-19
2.6. References
Chapter 3. Fake News and Anti-Covid-19 Vaccines: Analysis of Facebook Users in Burkina Faso
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Methodology
3.3. The profiles of Facebook users and their content
3.4. Fake news in the representation of vaccine risks
3.4.1. The Covid-19 vaccine makes women infertile
3.4.2. Covid vaccines cause neurodegenerative diseases
3.4.3. Bill Gates and his geo-tagged vaccine against Covid
3.5. Facebook users confront the vaccine communication strategy and fake news
3.6. Conclusion
3.7. References
Part 2. Covid, Art and Culture
Chapter 4. Covid-19 Crisis and Musical Creation for Public Awareness in Africa
4.1. Introduction: musical creation for prevention
4.1.1. Music as a support mechanism and collective commitment
4.1.2. Covid-19, a reality in Africa
4.1.3. The fundamental questions
4.2. Musical information and the Covid-19 crisis in Africa: collecting and deciphering content
4.2.1. Objective of the approach
4.2.2. Review and analysis of the corpus
4.3. Musical works for health prevention
4.3.1. Health awareness and music creation in Africa
4.3.2. Music as a medium for raising health awareness
4.3.3. The issue of health governance in creating music
4.4. Conclusion
4.4.1. The Covid-19 crisis in Africa: a prevention emergency
4.4.2. Music as a communication medium for health
4.5. References
Chapter 5. Rethinking Theatrical Performances in the Covid-19 Era: Strategies and Perspectives
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Brief status of Ivorian theatrical performances before Covid-19
5.2.1. The glory years of theatrical performances
5.2.2. Theatrical performances facing difficulties
5.3. The situation of theatrical performances during Covid-19
5.3.1. The negative effects of Covid-19 on theatrical performances
5.3.2. Positive effects of Covid-19 on theatrical performances
5.4. Theatrical representations: resilience and resistance
5.4.1. Theatrical performances as a source of social resilience during Covid-19
5.4.2. Prospects for theater in situations of a health crisis
5.5. Conclusion
5.6. References
Chapter 6. Tourism and the Pandemic: How to be Resilient and Creative Thanks to NICTs. Case study: Aloha Surf Camp in Morocco
6.1. Introduction
6.2. Research methodology
6.2.1. Field surveys using ethnographic and sociological methods
6.2.2. Research scope
6.3. Some geographical, economical and cultural notions of Moroccan surf tourism
6.3.1. Tourism in Morocco
6.3.2. The Bay of Taghazout: a flagship destination for "surf" and "luxury" tourism
6.3.3. Cultural diversity
6.3.4. Surf camps
6.4. Conceptual framework
6.4.1. Tourism and social networks
6.4.2. Digital nomadism
6.5. Results and discussions
6.5.1. Case study: Aloha surf camp
6.5.2. The surf camp
6.5.3. Crisis management: between resilience and innovation
6.5.4. From surfing tourists to nomadic artists
6.5.5. Perspectives for "Aloha" projects
6.6. Conclusion
6.7. References
Part 3. Business, Education and Covid
Chapter 7. Digital Technologies to Support Learning in the University Environment During the Pandemic at UFHB: From Hope to Disillusionment
7.1. Introduction
7.2. Digital technologies to support training in the university environment
7.3. Difficulties when appropriating ICTs within academic institutions in Africa
7.4. Improved access to ICTs, the digital divide in secondary education
7.5. The Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for the integration of ICTs into pedagogy and learning in the university setting
7.6. Methodology: meeting the students
7.7. Focus group characteristics
7.8. Smartphones, the students' tool of choice
7.9. UFHB students' perception of online learning
7.10. Pedagogy and experience of online courses
7.11. DSIC student critiques of the online training experience
7.12. Student suggestions for improving the organization of online courses
7.13. Discussion of the survey results
7.14. Conclusion
7.15. References
Chapter 8. The Use of ICT by Students of the University Ibn Zohr During Covid-19: Uses and Representations
8.1. Introduction
8.2. Contextualization
8.3. Objective
8.4. Issue
8.5. Theoretical framework
8.6. Methodology and presentation of the tool
8.6.1. Sample
8.6.2. Questionnaire
8.7. Results and discussion
8.7.1. Some results related to the use and representations of ICT among students
8.7.2. Interpreting the survey results
8.8. Conclusion
8.9. References
Chapter 9. Digital Communication for the Continuity of Socioeconomic Activities in Times of Covid-19 in Côte d'Ivoire: An Inventory of the Uses of ICTs
9.1. Introduction
9.2. Key theories
9.3. Method
9.4. The deployment of digital communication for socioeconomic activities
9.4.1. Political-administrative activities in times of Covid-19
9.4.2. Digital technology at the service of companies
9.4.3. Online courses in the education/training sector
9.4.4. Religious services
9.4.5. Identified obstacles
9.5. Recommendations to better adapt digital communication to managerial approaches
9.5.1. A greater commitment from the state
9.5.2. Greater involvement of civil society
9.6. Conclusion
9.7. References
List of Authors
Index
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