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areas: the political economy of communication; African political thought and African media; community communication policy; development communication and journalism; and new media policy and the African digital public sphere. An experienced broadcast journalist, he has also taught at the University of Zambia and worked as executive director of Panos Southern Africa. About the book The study identifies and analyses two types of citizen journalism: non-institutional and institutional. Exploratory in nature, the study is underpinned by four specific objectives, namely to: • Analyse the social context of the practice of citizen journalism in Africa; • Assess the technological basis of citizen journalism, especially the processes by which new information and communication technologies (ICTs) shape, and become shaped by, human attempts at citizen journalism; • Ascertain the level of uptake of citizen journalism by conventional media, as a way of establishing how citizen journalism becomes institutionalised in the process of adoption; and • Evaluate the democratic value of citizen journalism, as a way of appreciating the possible transformative power of citizen journalists. The overall aim of the study is to make sense of the democratic premium that initiators of various non-institutiona