African Language Media

Herausgeber: Fadipe, Israel A.; Tshabangu, Thulani; Mpofu, Phillip

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines how African language media is affected by politics, technology, culture, and the economy and how this media is creatively produced and appropriated by audiences across cultures and contexts.

Produktdetails

• Routledge African Media, Culture and Communication Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 162mm x 241mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781032395272
• ISBN-10: 1032395273
• Artikelnr.: 66711675

Autorenporträt

Phillip Mpofu is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media, Communication, Film and Theatre Arts at Midlands State University, Zimbabwe, and an Extraordinary Researcher in the Indigenous Language Media Research Entity at North West University, Mafikeng Campus in South Africa. Israel A. Fadipe is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Indigenous Language Media in Africa entity at North West University, South Africa. Thulani Tshabangu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Indigenous Language Media in Africa entity at North West University, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

SECTION 1: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS, TEXT, CONTEXT AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA
1. Introduction: African Language Media: Past, Present and Future 2. A Peek
into Afrinet-24 Domestication of Foreign Films in Nigerian Indigenous
Languages 3. Relevance of Cultural Studies' approaches to news media
production and consumption analyses in an African context 4. Television
cinema in indigenous/African languages, Are we there yet? The portrayal of
Women in Naiza Boom films 5. Hausa Folk Music and the challenges of
Sustainability in the Nigerian Entertainment Industry SECTION 2: DIGITAL
TECHNOLOGY AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA 6. (Dis) continuities of indigenous
language radio on social media: The case of South Africa's Motsweding FM
and Radio Zimbabwe 7. Reinterpreting Technological Language: The Use of
Social Media Emojis to Construct New Meanings in IsiXhosa Language 8. The
purpose of minority language media and the digital shift: the case of "Der
Nordschleswiger" 9. Podcasting Covid19 in indigenous languages:
Interrogating audio psychology and political anthropomorphism SECTION 3:
HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA 10. The Role of
Traditional Town Criers: Using Indigenous Yoruba Language in COVID-19
Awareness on Radio for Rural Dwellers in Lagos 11. A Critical Analysis of
the Kwayedza newspaper's Ethical Coverage of COVID-19 Crisis in Zimbabwe
(March 2020- December 2021) 12. How does the indigenous language media in
Malawi report on health crises such as recent COVD 19 global pandemic and
HIV/AIDS? 13. Trends in Indigenous Language Media Use for Rural Crime
Preventions in South African Region SECTION 4: AUDIENCE PERCEPTION,
PARTICIPATION, ETHNIC, IDENTITY FORMATION AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA 14.
The importance of audience participation in the success of community radio
15. Culture de la Paix in Central Africa: Building 'communities of affect'
and safe spaces through Sango broadcasts 16. Marginalised voices: A
reception analysis of Omurari FM's Okaruveze Kovaremane radio programme for
people living with disabilities 17. Women's Participation through
Indigenous Language Media and it's Outcomes, An analysis on Community Radio
and Women in Northern Ghana SECTION 5: CORPORATE COMMUNICATION,
PRACTICE-BASED STUDIES AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA 18. Reimagining
Indigenous African music through the Lens of urban concert halls SECTION 6:
BEAT ANALYSIS, PEACE JOURNALISM AND AFRICAN LANGUAGE MEDIA 19.
Socio-Cultural Issues in Ayinla Omowura's Music: Lessons for Social
Decadence-Free Society 20. Explicatures and Implicatures in Selected
abcderian Yoruba Poetry 21. The Use of Traditional Communication in Public
Protests: Evidence from Nigeria 22. In Conclusion: African Language Media