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This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media,
culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South.
Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it
traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology
strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural
renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new
conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging
approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora
entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then
explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in
broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and
business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of
village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political
opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial
propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore
engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate,
produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa
and the Caribbean.
This book brings together contributions that analyse different ways
in which migration and xenophobia have been mediated in both
mainstream and social media in Africa and the meanings of these
different mediation practices across the continent. It is premised
on the assumption that the media play an important role in
mediating the complex intersection between migration, identity,
belonging, and xenophobia (or what others have called Afrophobia),
through framing stories in ways that either buttress stereotyping
and Othering, or challenge the perceptions and representations that
fuel the violence inflicted on so-called foreign nationals. The
book deals with different expressions of xenophobic violence,
including both physical and emotional violence, that target the
foreign Other in different African countries.
This volume presents case studies of news media employing and
integrating social media into their news production practices. It
links social media use to journalistic practices and news
production processes in the digital age of the Global South.
Critically, the chapters look at seminal cases of start-up news
media whose content is informed by trends in social media, ethical
considerations and participatory cultures spurred by the wide use
of social media. There has been considerable research looking at
the potential of new media technologies, traditional journalism and
citizen reporting. The extent to which these new media technologies
and ‘citizen journalism’ have morphed or reconfigured
traditional journalism practice remains debatable. Currently, there
are questions around the limits of social media in journalism
practice as the ethical lines continue to become blurred. It is
this conundrum of the role of social media in the reconfiguration
of the media, news making, production and participatory cultures
that requires more investigation. Social media has also turned the
logic of the political economy of media production on its head as
citizens can now produce, package and distribute news and
information with shoestring budgets and in authoritarian regimes
with no license of practice. This new political economy means the
power that special interest groups used to enjoy is increasingly
slipping from their hands as citizens take back the power to
appropriate social media journalism to counter hegemonic
narratives. Citizens can also perform journalistic roles of
investigating and whistleblowing but with a lack off, or limited,
regulation. This volume seeks to explore and untangle these issues,
and provides an invaluable resource for researchers across the
field of journalism, mass media, and communication studies.
Radio is 'Africa's medium', with an ability to transcend barriers
to access, facilitate political debate and shape identities.
Contributors investigate the multiple roles of radio in the lives
of African listeners across the continent. Some essays turn to the
history of radio and its part in culture and politics. Others show
how radio throws up new tensions, yet endorses social innovation
and the making of new publics. A number of contributors look at
radio's current role in creating listening communities that
radically shift the nature of the public sphere. Yet others cover
radio's central role in the emergence of informed publics in
fragile national spaces, or in failed states. The book also
highlights radio's links to the new media, its role in resistance
to oppressive regimes, and points in several cases to the
importance of African languages in building modern communities that
embrace both local and global knowledge. Liz Gunner is visiting
Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research;
Dina Ligagais a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies,
University of the Witwatersrand; Dumisani Moyo is Research and
Publications Manager at the Open Society Initiative for Southern
Africa. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho,
Zimbabwe & Swaziland): Wits University Press
This book brings together contributions that analyse different ways
in which migration and xenophobia have been mediated in both
mainstream and social media in Africa and the meanings of these
different mediation practices across the continent. It is premised
on the assumption that the media play an important role in
mediating the complex intersection between migration, identity,
belonging, and xenophobia (or what others have called Afrophobia),
through framing stories in ways that either buttress stereotyping
and Othering, or challenge the perceptions and representations that
fuel the violence inflicted on so-called foreign nationals. The
book deals with different expressions of xenophobic violence,
including both physical and emotional violence, that target the
foreign Other in different African countries.
This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media,
culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South.
Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it
traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology
strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural
renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new
conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging
approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora
entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then
explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in
broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and
business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of
village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political
opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial
propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore
engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate,
produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa
and the Caribbean.
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