Digital Political Communication and Indigenous Languages in Africa
暫譯: 非洲的數位政治傳播與原住民語言

Limukani Mathe is a Research Associate at the University of South Africa. He was a Research Fellow and Lecturer at North-West University in South Africa. Prior to that he was Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg and Guest Lecturer at the University of Fort Hare. He has published books, book chapters and journal articles in high impact journals. Recent books include Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity, published by Palgrave Macmillan, which reflects on the evolving identities and lingua in Africa and radio as a mirror of such realities. He has also written a monograph entitled African Radio and Minority Languages: Participation and Representation for Routledge, which theorises the African multilingual public sphere and the political economy of African radio.

Gilbert Motsaathebe is a Full Professor at the North-West University where he is attached to the Indigenous Language Media in Africa (ILMA) focus area. He is the Founder and Co-Principal Editor of the International Journal of Indigenous Languages Media and Discourse. Previously, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Communicare-Journal for Communication Studies in Africa. He is an NRF-rated researcher with more than 70 peer-reviewed scholarly articles and chapters in leading journals and compendiums. In addition, he has published 13 books with publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, UNISA Press, and Routledge.

Limukani Mathe 是南非大學的研究助理。他曾在南非的西北大學擔任研究員和講師。在此之前，他是約翰尼斯堡大學的講師和研究員，以及福特海爾大學的客座講師。他在高影響力的期刊上發表了書籍、書章和期刊文章。最近出版的書籍包括由 Palgrave Macmillan 出版的 重新概念化非洲廣播中的多語言：語言與身份，該書反映了非洲不斷演變的身份和語言，以及廣播作為這些現實的鏡子。他還為 Routledge 撰寫了一本專著，名為 非洲廣播與少數語言：參與與代表性，該書理論化了非洲的多語言公共領域和非洲廣播的政治經濟。

Gilbert Motsaathebe 是西北大學的全職教授，並隸屬於非洲土著語言媒體（ILMA）研究領域。他是 國際土著語言媒體與話語期刊 的創始人和共同主編。此前，他曾擔任 Communicare-非洲傳播研究期刊 的主編。他是一位 NRF 評級的研究人員，擁有超過 70 篇經過同行評審的學術文章和書章，發表在領先的期刊和文集上。此外，他還與 Palgrave Macmillan、Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books、UNISA Press 和 Routledge 等出版社出版了 13 本書籍。