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The book provides insights on decolonising media and communication
studies education from diverse African scholars at different stages
of their careers. These academics, located on the continent and in
the Diaspora, share an interest in decolonising higher education
broadly and media and communication studies teaching and learning
in particular. Although many African countries gained flag
independence from different European colonial powers between the
1950s and the 1970s, this book argues that former colonies remain
ensnared in a colonial power matrix. Many African universities did
not jettison ways of teaching and learning established during
colonialism, and even those journalism, communication and media
studies training programmes which were established after the
attainment of flag independence did not place decolonial agendas at
the front and centre when setting them up. Starting with big
picture thematic questions around decolonisation, the book goes on
to consider what the implications of change would be for students
and instructors, before reflecting on how far it is possible to
decolonise curricula and syllabi and what this might look like in
practice across a range of subject areas and country contexts.
Overall, this book presents a nuanced picture of what a decolonised
media and communication studies education could look like in
sub-Saharan Africa. This book is essential for researchers in
Africa in disciplines such as media and communication studies,
journalism, film studies, cultural studies and higher education
studies. More broadly, the concepts and ideas on decolonising
teaching and learning discussed in the book are relevant to
instructors in any discipline that are interested in doing the
decolonial work of contesting coloniality.
This book explores how popular cultural artifacts, literary texts,
commemorative practices and other forms of remembrances are used to
convey, transmit and contest memories of mass atrocities in the
Global South. Some of these historical atrocities took place during
the Cold war. As such, this book unpacks the influence or role of
the global powers in conflict in the Global South. Contributors are
grappling with a number of issues such as the politics of
memorialization, memory conflicts, exhumations, reburials,
historical dialogue, peacebuilding and social healing, memory
activism, visual representation, transgenerational transmission of
memories, and identity politics.
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.
The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from
the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the
role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many
citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious
lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume
demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with
power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future.
Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated
with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media
and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption,
human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly
analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to
demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge
status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media
and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global
South studies.
Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the
Global South offers a groundbreaking intervention on how digital
media were used from below by ordinary citizens to negotiate the
global pandemic humorously. This book considers the role played by
digital media during the pandemic, and indeed in the
socio-political life of the Global South, as indispensable and
revolutionary to human communication. In many societies, humour not
only signifies laughter and frivolity, but acts as an important
echo that accompanies, critiques, questions, disrupts, agitates and
comments on societal affairs and the human condition. This book
analyses citizens' use of social media and humour to mediate the
pandemic in a diverse range of countries, including Brazil, India,
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book will appeal to
academics and students of media and communication studies,
political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.
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.
The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age: Perspectives from
the Global South brings to critical and intellectual attention the
role of humour in the digital era in the Global South. Many
citizens of the Global South live disempowered and precarious
lives. Digital media and humour, as chapters in the volume
demonstrate, have empowered these citizens through engagement with
power and their peers, enabling a pursuit of a better future.
Contributors to the volume, while alive to challenges associated
with the digital divide, highlight the potentials of social media
and humour to engage and seek redress on issues such as corruption,
human rights violations, racism and sexism. Contributors expertly
analyse memes, videos, cartoons and other social media texts to
demonstrate how citizens mimic, disrupt, ridicule and challenge
status quo. This book caters for academics and students in media
and communication studies, political studies, sociology and Global
South studies.
Digital humour in the COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives from the
Global South offers a groundbreaking intervention on how digital
media were used from below by ordinary citizens to negotiate the
global pandemic humorously. This book considers the role played by
digital media during the pandemic, and indeed in the
socio-political life of the Global South, as indispensable and
revolutionary to human communication. In many societies, humour not
only signifies laughter and frivolity, but acts as an important
echo that accompanies, critiques, questions, disrupts, agitates and
comments on societal affairs and the human condition. This book
analyses citizens' use of social media and humour to mediate the
pandemic in a diverse range of countries, including Brazil, India,
Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The book will appeal to
academics and students of media and communication studies,
political studies, rhetoric, and to policy makers.
The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Spaces: Genealogies,
Discourses, and Epistemic Struggles establishes a debate and
dialogue between critical and post-/de-colonial approaches in the
study of subalternity in online media representations. Editors
Khanyile Mlotshwa and Mphathisi Ndlovu curate chapters that deal
specifically with the intersectional subalternity of Matabeleland,
a political and geographical region in the Southwest part of
Zimbabwe comprising of three provinces: Matabeleland South,
Matabeleland North, and Bulawayo metropolitan province. The
subalternity of this region emerges in politics and popular
culture, including media, as intersectional in terms of ethnicity,
region, gender, class, and beyond. This book argues that in online
spaces the liberatory politics of Matabeleland emerges as trapped
in coloniality.
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