Representing African cities in Wikipedia : the case of Lagos and Kinshasa

• Main Author: Luyt, Brendan
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Urban Representation; Cities
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/83297; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/50098
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The role played by representations in the lives of cities endows the study of their production and distribution in various media with importance. Today, the Internet, that amorphous network linking much of the world, is a powerful new media for the imagination of city spaces and hence in need of inv...