Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)

by Brian Larkin (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $36.99

  Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. This work provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point.