Workshop report
Uppsala, Sweden, June 2006
The first workshop in the Nordic Network for Media, Communication and Popular Culture in Africa was held in Uppsala in June 2006, jointly at the Nordic Africa Institute and in the Department of Information Science at the University of Uppsala. Some thirty scholars and graduate students based in the Nordic countries and in African countries participated, and fifteen papers were presented and discussed.
Workshop programme (pdf).
A brief summary of the workshop and a contextualisation of its debates can be found in the text by Hilde Arntsen Researching popular culture published in the September 2006 issue of Glocal Times, where the following workshop papers are published:
Mette Grøndahl Hansen, Stine Vikkelsø, Lise Grauenkær Jensen, Stine Kromann-Larsen and Martha Topperzer: An analysis of the learning potentials of edutainment board games.
Mari Maasilta: Transnational Senegalese cinema between nationalism and globalisation.
Sabine Marschall: Murals as a popular medium of communication in South Africa.
Nkosi Ndlela: Alternative media and the global popular.