Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa
Author: Festus Eribo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739103777

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by African scholars, this volume maps out the changing media ecology of Cameroon and provides practical survey methods for communication research. The work details the impact mass public communication has had on the empowerment of Cameroon's 15 million people and the development of grassroots participatory democracy.

Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Louise M. Bourgault
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1995-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253209382

Bourgault considers the political shifts affecting Africa in the 1990s and offers a radical blueprint for more responsive and informative media in the sub-Saharan area.

Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Author: Winston Mano
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2021-02-12
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1351273191

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.

Everyday Media Culture in Africa

Everyday Media Culture in Africa
Author: Wendy Willems
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315472759

African audiences and users are rapidly gaining in importance and increasingly targeted by global media companies, social media platforms and mobile phone operators. This is the first edited volume that addresses the everyday lived experiences of Africans in their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. So far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has studied media through the lens of media-state relations, thereby adopting liberal democracy as the normative ideal and examining the potential contribution of African media to development and democratization. Focusing instead on everyday media culture in a range of African countries, this volume contributes to the broader project of provincializing and decolonizing audience and internet studies.

Peace Journalism in East Africa

Peace Journalism in East Africa
Author: Frederick Ogenga
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre:
ISBN: 9781032338279

This concise edited collection explores the practice of Peace Journalism in East Africa, focusing specifically on the unique political and economic contexts of Uganda and Kenya. This cutting-edge research book is a valuable resource for academics in journalism, media studies, communication, peace and conflict studies, and sociology.

New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa

New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
Author: Olorunnisola, Anthony A.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466641983

While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa has always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats, activists, and others who work towards political transformations. New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective, this book also presents case studies and national experiences for media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.

Chinese Media in Africa

Chinese Media in Africa
Author: Emeka Umejei
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2020-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498593976

Chinese Media in Africa: Perception, Performance, and Paradox analyzes the debate on Chinese media expansion in Africa and its implication for the African media landscape by engaging with African journalists who train and work in Chinese media organizations based in Africa. Emeka Umejei analyzes how African journalists that enter the sphere of Chinese media, often with libertarian notions of journalism, are able to navigate the collisions and collusions that inform journalism in these settings. Through extensive interviews with African journalists, Umejei explores the constant negotiation of freedoms—including the ability to always work in relation to African reality—within state-controlled media organizations. These interviews bring to light the paradoxical nature of Chinese media organizations that both preach equality with Africa and simultaneously promote Chinese hegemony in the media, highlighting the diverse contours that shape and influence journalism practices in these settings. Scholars of journalism, media studies, African studies, international relations, and sociology will find this book particularly useful.

Impacts of the Media on African Socio-Economic Development

Impacts of the Media on African Socio-Economic Development
Author: Nelson, Okorie
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-11-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522518606

Technology and media are now integrated in various facets of society, including social and economic development. This has allowed for new and innovative methods for aiding in development initiatives. Impacts of the Media on African Socio-Economic Development is an essential research publication for the latest scholarly information on societal and economical dimensions of development and the application of media to advance progress. Featuring extensive coverage on many topics including gender empowerment, international business, and health promotion, this book is ideally designed for government officials, academics, professionals, and students seeking current research on social realities and achieving further development in emerging economies.

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Author: Herman Wasserman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 617
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 113691160X

Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of ‘democracy’ and ‘development’. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the African continent, essays employ a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to ask critical questions about the potential of popular media to contribute to democratic culture, provide sites of resistance, or, conversely, act as agents for the spread of Americanized entertainment culture to the detriment of local traditions. A wide variety of media formats and platforms are discussed, ranging from radio and television to the Internet, mobile phones, street posters, film and music. As part of the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies, the book responds to the important challenge of broadening perspectives on media studies by bringing together a range of expert analyses of media in the African continent that will be of interest to students and scholars of media in Africa and further afield.