LSE creators

Number of items: 52.
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Beyond free basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’ssocial media internet.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Facebook live-streaming, drones and swag selfies: youth culture and visual social media in #ZambiaDecides.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Social media, platform power and (mis)information in Zambia’s recent elections.
    • LSE
  • Willems, Wendy, Obadare, Ebenezer (2014). Professor Patrick Chabal: A tribute to the unelected Dean of African Studies.
    • Media and Communications
  • Willems, Wendy (2025). Global communication and the scalar politics of race tensions in transnational articulations of (anti)-racism(s). International Journal of Communication, picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2025). Mobile publics on the move: ephemerality, intimacy and spatiality. In Goggin, Gerard, Hjorth, Larissa (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media . Routledge.
  • Willems, Wendy (2024). Reprodução de silêncios canônicos: uma releitura de Habermas no contexto da escravidão e do tráfico de pessoas escravizadas. E-Compós, https://doi.org/10.30962/ecomps.3116 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2023). The reproduction of canonical silences: re-reading Habermas in the context of slavery and the slave trade. Communication, Culture & Critique, 16(1), 17 - 24. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac047 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2021). Radio, voice and the rhythms of the everyday. Journal of South African Studies, 47(6), 1110 - 1112. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2021.1997002 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (18 November 2021) Disrupting received histories of media and media studies. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2021). Unearthing bundles of baffling silences: the entangled and racialized global histories of media and media studies. History of Media Studies, 1, https://doi.org/10.32376/d895a0ea.52801916 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2020). Rich history: race, space and the sanitisation of colonial heritage. Media@LSE Virtual Research Exhibition. video_file
  • Willems, Wendy (22 July 2020) #BlackLivesMatter in General Gordon Square: a history. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2020). Digital development imaginaries, informal business practices and the platformisation of digital technology in Zambia. In Helle-Valle, Jo, Storm-Mathisen, Ardis (Eds.), Media practices and changing African socialities: non-media-centric perspectives . Berghahn Books. description
  • Willems, Wendy (2020). Beyond platform-centrism and digital universalism: the relational affordances of mobile social media publics. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1718177 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2019). The politics of things: digital media, urban space, and the materiality of publics. Media, Culture & Society, 41(8), 1192 - 1209. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443719831594 picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy, Mano, Winston (2016). Decolonizing and provincializing audience and internet studies: contextual approaches from African vantage points. In Willems, Wendy, Mano, Winston (Eds.), Everyday media culture in Africa: audiences and users . Routledge.
  • Willems, Wendy, Mano, Winston (Eds.) (2016). Everyday media culture in Africa: audiences and users. Routledge.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Mr. Zuckerberg goes to Africa.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Beyond free basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’s social media internet.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Beyond free basics: Facebook, data bundles and Zambia’ssocial media internet.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Facebook live-streaming, drones and swag selfies: youth culture and visual social media in #ZambiaDecides.
  • Willems, Wendy (2016). Social media, platform power and (mis)information in Zambia’s recent elections.
  • Willems, Wendy (2015). Race and the reproduction of colonial mythologies on land: a postcolonial reading of British media discourse on Zimbabwe. In Mano, Winston (Ed.), Racism, Ethnicity and Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century . I.B. Tauris Publishers. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2015). Risky dialogues: the performative state and the nature of power in a postcolony. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 27(3), 356-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1026881
  • Willems, Wendy (2015). Alternative mediation, power and civic agency in Africa. In Atton, Chris (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media . Routledge.
  • Willems, Wendy (2014). Provincializing hegemonic histories of media and communication studies: toward a genealogy of epistemic resistance in Africa. Communication Theory, 24(4), 415 - 434. https://doi.org/10.1111/comt.12043
  • Willems, Wendy (2014). Producing loyal citizens and entertaining volatile subjects: imagining audience agency in colonial Rhodesia and post-colonial Zimbabwe. In Butsch, Richard, Livingstone, Sonia (Eds.), Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses (pp. 80-96). Routledge.
  • Willems, Wendy, Obadare, Ebenezer (2014). Introduction: African resistance in an age of fractured sovereignty. In Obadare, Ebenezer, Willems, Wendy (Eds.), Civic agency in Africa: arts of resistance in the 21st century (pp. 1-23). James Currey (Firm). picture_as_pdf
  • Obadare, Ebenezer, Willems, Wendy (Eds.) (2014). Civic agency in Africa: arts of resistance in the 21st century. James Currey (Firm).
  • Willems, Wendy (2014). Beyond normative dewesternization: examining media culture from the vantage point of the Global South. The Global South, 8(1), 7-23.
  • Willems, Wendy (2013). Theorising media as/and civil society in Africa. In Obadare, Ebenezer (Ed.), The Handbook of Civil Society in Africa (pp. 43-59). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2013). Large classes, participation and the potential of educational blogging: personal reflections on the exPress imPress project. In Hornsby, David J., Osman, Ruksana, De Matos Ala, Jaqueline (Eds.), Large-Class Pedagogy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Quality Tertiary Education (pp. 107-128). Stellenbosch University Press. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2013). Participation – in what? Radio, convergence and the corporate logic of audience input through new media in Zambia. Telematics and Informatics, 30(3), 223-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2012.02.006
  • Willems, Wendy (2013). Zimbabwe’s cultural revolution and the ‘melodic press release’: mediated national imaginaries in an age of neoliberalism. In Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., Ndhlovu, Fenix (Eds.), Nationalism and National Projects in Southern Africa: New Critical Reflections (pp. 158-175). Africa Institute of South Africa. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2013). 'Zimbabwe will never be a colony again': changing celebratory styles and meanings of independence. Anthropology Southern Africa, 36(1-2), 22-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/23323256.2013.11500040
  • Willems, Wendy (2012). Editorial. Journal of African Media Studies, 4(3), 273-275. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.4.3.273_2
  • Willems, Wendy (2012). Interrogating public sphere and popular culture as theoretical concepts on their value in African studies. Africa Development, 37(1), 11-26.
  • Willems, Wendy (2012). The ballot vote as embedded ritual: a radical critique of liberal-democratic approaches to media and elections in Africa. African Studies, 71(1), 91-107. https://doi.org/10.1080/00020184.2012.668295
  • Willems, Wendy (2011). Comic strips and “the crisis”: postcolonial laughter and coping with everyday life in Zimbabwe. Popular Communication, 9(2), 126-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2011.562099
  • Willems, Wendy (2011). Encyclopedia of social movement media. In Downing, John D. H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (pp. 410-412). SAGE Publications.
  • Willems, Wendy (2011). Political jokes in Zimbabwe. In Downing, John D. H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (pp. 410-412). SAGE Publications.
  • Willems, Wendy (2011). 'Powerful centre' versus 'powerless periphery'?: postcolonial encounters, global media and nationalism in the 'Zimbabwe crisis'. In Ndlovu-Gatsheni, S., Muzondidya, J. (Eds.), Redemptive or Grotesque Nationalism? Rethinking Contemporary Politics in Zimbabwe (pp. 315-348). Verlag Peter Lang. picture_as_pdf
  • Willems, Wendy (2011). Social movement media, post-apartheid (South Africa). In Downing, John D. H. (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media (pp. 492-495). SAGE Publications.
  • Willems, Wendy (2010). At the crossroads of the formal and popular: convergence culture and new publics in Zimbabwe. In Wasserman, Herman (Ed.), Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa (pp. 46-62). Routledge. picture_as_pdf
  • Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., Willems, Wendy (2010). Reinvoking the past in the present: changing identities and appropriations of Joshua Nkomo in post-colonial Zimbabwe. African Identities, 8(3), 191-208. https://doi.org/10.1080/14725843.2010.491619
  • Mano, Winston, Willems, Wendy (2010). Debating ‘Zimbabweanness’ in diasporic internet forums: technologies of freedom? In McGregor, J., Primorac, R. (Eds.), Zimbabwe's New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival (pp. 183-201). Berghahn Books.
  • Willems, Wendy (2010). Beyond dramatic revolutions and grand rebellions: everyday forms of resistance during the 'Zimbabwe crisis'. Comminicare, 29, 1-17.
  • Willems, Wendy (2010). Editorial. Journal of African Media Studies, 2(2), 135-137. https://doi.org/10.1386/jams.2.2.135_2
  • Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J., Willems, Wendy (2009). Making sense of cultural nationalism and the politics of commemoration under the Third Chimurenga in Zimbabwe. Journal of Southern African Studies, 35(4), 945-965. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070903314226
  • Mano, Winston, Willems, Wendy (2008). Emerging communities, emerging media: the case of a Zimbabwean nurse in the British Big Brother show. Critical Arts, 22(1), 101-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/02560040802166300
  • Willems, Wendy (2008). Mocking the state: comic strips in the Zimbabwean press. In Abbink, J., Van Dokkum, A. (Eds.), Dilemmas of Development : Conflicts of Interest and Their Resolutions in Modernizing Africa (pp. 151-162). African Studies Centre.
  • Willems, Wendy (2005). Remnants of Empire? British media reporting on Zimbabwe. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 91-108.
  • Willems, Wendy (2004). Peasant demonstrators, violent invaders: representations of land in the Zimbabwean press. World Development, 32(10), 1767-1783. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2004.06.003
  • Willems, Wendy (2004). Selection and silence: contesting meanings of land in Zimbabwean media. Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies, 25(1), 4-24.