Chinese Media in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Media in Africa write by Emeka Umejei. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Chinese Media in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century
Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century write by Mel Bunce. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose perspectives are told and the forms of media that empower new voices. Case studies consider questions such as: how has new media changed whose views are represented? Does Chinese or diaspora media offer alternative perspectives for viewing the continent? How do foreign correspondents interact with their audiences in a social media age? What is the contemporary role of charity groups and PR firms in shaping news content? They also examine how recent high profile events and issues been covered by the international media, from the Ebola crisis, and Boko Haram to debates surrounding the "Africa Rising" narrative and neo-imperialism. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and ‘darkest Africa’ news coverage. It explores the news outlets, international power dynamics, and technologies that shape and reshape the contemporary image of Africa and Africans in journalism and global culture.
Media in Postapartheid South Africa
Media in Postapartheid South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Media in Postapartheid South Africa write by Sean Jacobs. This book was released on 2019-03-11. Media in Postapartheid South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Media in Postapartheid South Africa, author Sean Jacobs turns to media politics and the consumption of media as a way to understand recent political developments in South Africa and their relations with the African continent and the world. Jacobs looks at how mass media define the physical and human geography of the society and what it means for comprehending changing notions of citizenship in postapartheid South Africa. Jacobs claims that the media have unprecedented control over the distribution of public goods, rights claims, and South Africa's integration into the global political economy in ways that were impossible under the state-controlled media that dominated the apartheid years. Jacobs takes a probing look at television commercials and the representation of South Africans, reality television shows and South African continental expansion, soap operas and postapartheid identity politics, and the internet as a space for reassertions and reconfigurations of identity. As South Africa becomes more integrated into the global economy, Jacobs argues that local media have more weight in shaping how consumers view these products in unexpected and consequential ways.
Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging
Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging write by Francis B. Nyamnjoh. This book was released on 2005-05. Africa's Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An overview of the press and mass media in Africa today and their contribution to democratization
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa write by Herman Wasserman. This book was released on 2010-10-04. Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
