Digital Media Landscape and Ethical Influencing in Africa

NOTE: Fast forward to 33:32 to watch video in french. Don’t forget to dowload and read the materials for this lesson(scrolldown to find it). 

The continent of Africa has been vulnerable to digital media’s ineluctable maze and instrumentalising effects. And this begs the question: how can African digital missionaries who are imbued with the evangelising mission of the church, engage the African digital landscape in an ethical manner or a ‘zone of significance’ that offers an imagination of faith that is committed to the common good (Johnson, 2015)?

Here lies the crux of this week’s lecture: given that digital media has become a credible vehicle for evangelisation, African digital missionaries must provide a counter narrative that serves as correctives to the instrumentalising effects of the digital culture.