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Political Communication has fundamentally transformed as digital
technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life.
Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for
world leaders, campaigns, social movements, journalists, and
non-governmental organizations. Moreover, they are essential to how
people communicate about politics, encounter and share political
information, and take action to pursue their political goals. This
is the first textbook to center digital platforms in understanding
political communication. Taking a global approach beyond the
context of Western democracies, the text reveals how digital
technologies like social media and search engines are increasingly
shaping political communication in countries around the world. It
shows how the core concepts, theories and processes of political
communication are being reshaped by platforms, from how elections
are contested to how issues make it onto policymaking agendas.
Topics covered include public opinion, journalism, strategic
communication, political parties, social movements, governance,
disinformation, propaganda, populism, race, ethnicity, and
democratic backsliding. Full of lively examples and pedagogical
features, Platforms, Power and Politics offers an
exciting and innovative new approach to political communication. It
is essential reading for students of political communication and an
important resource for scholars, journalists and policymakers.
Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism,
The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines
not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical
imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the
Global South, but also the opportunities presented to journalists
and journalism educators if they choose to partake in international
collaboration and education. This collection returns to fundamental
questions around the meaning, value, and practices of journalism
from alternative methodological, theoretical, and epistemological
perspectives. These questions include: What really is journalism?
Who gets to and who is qualified to define it? What role do ethics
play? What are the current trends, challenges, and opportunities
for journalism in the Global South? How is news covered, reported,
written, and edited in non-Western settings? What can journalism
players living and working in industrialized markets learn from
their non-Western colleagues and counterparts and vice-versa?
Contributors challenge accepted ‘universal’ ethical standards
while showing the relevance of customs, traditions, and cultures in
defining and shaping local and regional journalism. Showcasing some
of the most important research on journalism in the Global South
and by journalists based in the Global South, this companion is key
reading for anyone researching the principles and practices of
journalism from a de-essentialized perspective.
This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in
railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa.
Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars
from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and
history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in
driving change in Africa.
Communication is changing rapidly around the world, particularly in
Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only
to improve not only interpersonal communication but also the state
of their financial well-being. This book investigates these
transformations in Nigeria's booming communication industry. The
book traces communications in Nigeria back to pre-colonial
indigenous communications, through the development of
telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian
film industry ('Nollywood') and on to the digital era. At a time
when Western voices still dominate the academic literature on
communication in Africa, this book is noteworthy in drawing almost
exclusively on the expertise of Nigerian-based authors, critiquing
the discipline from their own lens and providing an important
contribution to the decolonisation of communication studies. The
authors provide a holistic analysis of the sector, encompassing
print journalism, broadcast journalism, public relations,
advertising, film, development communication, organisational
communication and strategic communication. Analysis of the role of
digital technologies is woven throughout the book, concluding with
a final section theorising the future of communication studies in
Nigeria in the light of the digital media revolution. Robust in its
theoretical and methodological underpinnings, this book will be an
important reference for researchers of media and communication
studies, and those working on Africa specifically.
This edited collection is a cutting-edge volume that reframes
political communication from an African perspective. Focusing on
sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other
regions of the world, this book critically addresses the
development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and
challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of
case studies that include Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe,
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, the
collection gives space to previously understudied regions of
sub-Saharan Africa and challenges the over-reliance of western
scholarship on political communication on the continent.
This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of
media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist
perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media
and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a
counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of
knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage
across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and
communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides
empirical evidence as to why some of the methods conceptualised in
Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal
of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the
discipline on the continent.
This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new
communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil
action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation
and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is
considered a powerful platform used by pro-democracy activists to
negotiate and sometimes push for reform-based political and social
changes in Africa. The book discusses and theorizes digital
activism within social and geo-political realms, analysing cases
such as the #FeesMustFall and #BringBackOurGirls campaigns in South
Africa and Nigeria respectively to question the extent to which
they have changed the dynamics of digital activism in sub-Saharan
Africa. Comparative case study reflections in eight African
countries identify and critique digital concepts questioning what
impact they have had on the civil society. Cases also explore the
African LGBT community as a social movement while discussing
opportunities and challenges faced by online activists fighting for
LGBT equality. Finally, gender-based activists using digital tools
to gain attention and facilitate social changes are also appraised.
The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital
society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and
by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and
communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal
role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms
of digital exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited
collection comprises of chapters written by respected scholars from
a variety of countries, and brings together new scholarship
addressing what the process of digital inclusion means for
individuals and places in the countries analyzed. Each country has
its own strategy to guarantee that people can access and enjoy the
benefits of the information society. While this book does not
presume to map all the countries in the world, it does shed light
into these strategies, underlining what each country is doing in
order to reduce digital inequalities and to guarantee that socially
disadvantaged people (in terms of disabilities, availability of
resources, age, geographic location, lack of education, or
ethnicity) are digitally included.
Political Communication has fundamentally transformed as digital
technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life.
Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for
world leaders, campaigns, social movements, journalists, and
non-governmental organizations. Moreover, they are essential to how
people communicate about politics, encounter and share political
information, and take action to pursue their political goals. This
is the first textbook to center digital platforms in understanding
political communication. Taking a global approach beyond the
context of Western democracies, the text reveals how digital
technologies like social media and search engines are increasingly
shaping political communication in countries around the world. It
shows how the core concepts, theories and processes of political
communication are being reshaped by platforms, from how elections
are contested to how issues make it onto policymaking agendas.
Topics covered include public opinion, journalism, strategic
communication, political parties, social movements, governance,
disinformation, propaganda, populism, race, ethnicity, and
democratic backsliding. Full of lively examples and pedagogical
features, Platforms, Power and Politics offers an
exciting and innovative new approach to political communication. It
is essential reading for students of political communication and an
important resource for scholars, journalists and policymakers.
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political
communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the
diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of
political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin
a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to
knowledge production about African political communication. In
doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might
until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms
of political communication that served to challenge imposed western
norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring
African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the
continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics,
media and communication in Africa. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003111962, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political
communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the
diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of
political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin
a process of self-reflexivity and the creation of a new approach to
knowledge production about African political communication. In
doing so, it explores political communication approaches that might
until recently have been considered subversive or dissident: forms
of political communication that served to challenge imposed western
norms and to empower African citizens and their histories. Centring
African scholarship, the book draws on case studies from across the
continent, including Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics,
media and communication in Africa. The Open Access version of this
book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003111962, has been made
available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No
Derivatives 4.0 license.
This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of
media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist
perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media
and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a
counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of
knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage
across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and
communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides
empirical evidence as to why some of the methods conceptualised in
Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal
of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the
discipline on the continent.
This edited collection is a cutting-edge volume that reframes
political communication from an African perspective. Focusing on
sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other
regions of the world, this book critically addresses the
development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and
challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of
case studies that include Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe,
Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, the
collection gives space to previously understudied regions of
sub-Saharan Africa and challenges the over-reliance of western
scholarship on political communication on the continent.
This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new
communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil
action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation
and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is
considered a powerful platform used by pro-democracy activists to
negotiate and sometimes push for reform-based political and social
changes in Africa. The book discusses and theorizes digital
activism within social and geo-political realms, analysing cases
such as the #FeesMustFall and #BringBackOurGirls campaigns in South
Africa and Nigeria respectively to question the extent to which
they have changed the dynamics of digital activism in sub-Saharan
Africa. Comparative case study reflections in eight African
countries identify and critique digital concepts questioning what
impact they have had on the civil society. Cases also explore the
African LGBT community as a social movement while discussing
opportunities and challenges faced by online activists fighting for
LGBT equality. Finally, gender-based activists using digital tools
to gain attention and facilitate social changes are also appraised.
Media and Democratic Transition in Zimbabwe provides an empirical
analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo
and Cleophas T. Muneri examine the intersection between journalism,
democracy, and human rights to historicize and critique past
successes and failures that have played out in Zimbabwe’s past,
as well as future challenges that await the current government of
the country. The authors pose the question of what role human
rights activists, journalists, and social media dissents play in
ending the country’s current adversity. Scholars of journalism,
media studies, communication, African studies, and political
science will find this book particularly useful.
This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism
in the Global South. It does so by examining trends, developments
and opportunities for data journalism in the aforementioned
contexts. Whilst studies in this specific form of journalism are
increasing in numbers and significance, there remains a dearth of
literature on data journalism in less developed regions of the
world. By demonstrating an interest in data journalism across
countries including Chile, Argentina, the Philippines, South Africa
and Iran, among others, this volume contributes to multifaceted
transnational debates on journalism, and is a crucial reference
text for anyone interested in data journalism in the 'developing'
world. Drawing on a range of voices from different fields and
nations, sharing empirical and theoretical experiences, the volume
aims to initiate a global dialogue among journalism practitioners,
researchers and students.
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