Çotuksöken, BetülNcube, Bhekinkosi Jakobe2024-07-122024-07-122013Ncube, B. J. (2013). Digital constellation in the age of information and communication technologies (ICTs): Investigating the impact of free-to-air satellite decoders in Zimbabwe's political landscape. Çotuksöken, B. (ed.), International Communication studendts congress: Media, Youth and Their Future içinde (15-15 ss.). İstanbul: Maltepe Üniversitesi.978-975-6760-51-2https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12415/5449Discourses on new media and the rise of technological convergence and, in particular, their contribution in revolutionary and Weak states like Zimbabwe have elicited Variegated perceptions. others perceive them as positive deve|opments contributing towards the opening-up of the democratic space, while others see them as structures of hyped reality, myths and subllme obiects of a trite Virtual space. These conflicting perceptions inform this study, which investigates the advent and impact oİ free-to-air salellite decoders on news consumption by Zimbabwean youths during the politlcal and economic crisis of the last decade (2007 - 2009).enAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessDigital constellationAge of informationCommunication technologiesConference Object15153