Social Media and Elections in Africa, Volume 2: Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 1: Introduction - Social Media, Political Cultures and Elections in Africa Winston Mano & Martin Ndlela.Chapter 2: Misogyny, Social Media and Electoral Democracy in Zimbabwe's 2018 Elections Pauline Mateveke and Rosemary Chikafa-Chipiro.Chapter 3: Women and Election Activism in Uganda: The Pads4Girls Social Media Campaign Florence Namasinga Selnes and Kristin Skare Orgeret.Chapter 4: Discrimination against female politicians on social media: An analysis of tweets in the run-up to the July 2018 harmonised elections in Zimbabwe. Gibson Ncube  and Gwatisira Yemurai.Chapter 5: Young people, social media and political participation. The limits of discursive (in)civility in the Kenyan context, Martin Ndlela.Chapter 6: Youth, elections and social media: Understanding the critical (di)stance between young people and political party messaging.  Vanessa Malilaand Noko Pela.Chapter 7: Social Media as New Source of Empowerment in Algeria - Laeed Zaghlami.Chapter 8: Post digital dialogue and activism in the public sphere. Dalien René Benecke and Sonja Verwey.Chapter 9: #ThisFlag: Social media and cyber-protests in Zimbabwe Shepherd Mpofu and Admire Mare.Chapter 10: #Zuma Must Fall this February: Homophily on the echo chambers of political leaders' twitter accounts Rofhiwa Mukhudwana.Chapter 11: An Analysis of Newspapers' Coverage of Hate Speech in Nigeria. Sunday Ogbonna and Achike, C. Okafo.Chapter 12: A critical analysis of how transgressive social media images and memes portrayed dominant political discourses during Nigeria's 2015 General Elections Chikezie E Uzuegbunam.Chapter 13: Discourses on negative political advertising in South Africa: a social media reception analysis Siyasanga M Tyali & Rofhiwa F Mukhudwana.