Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria

The book “Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria” by anthropologist Brian Larkin, released in 2008, starts from a ban on cinema in several cities in Kano, northern Nigeria, after the introduction of Islamic law in Kano state.

The author then studies the arrival of technologies and the emergence of media in Nigerian culture, the appropriation of Nigerians to these “infrastructures”, their habits of media consumption and visits to the cinema, the development of this urban culture linked to cinema and media, as well as the subsequent impact of these banning measures.

For more information about the book, you can visit De Gruyter’s website.

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2008

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Brian Larkin

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De Gruyter