Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Herausgeber: Mano, Winston; Milton, Viola C

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication, building a critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781138574779
• ISBN-10: 1138574775
• Artikelnr.: 60353882

Autorenporträt

Winston Mano is a Reader and a member of the University of Westminster¿s top-rated Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI). He is also a Course Leader for the MA in Media and Development and the Founder/Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of African Media Studies. Mano is also a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. viola c. milton is a Professor in the Department of Communication Science at the University of South Africa. She is also co-chair of the South African Communication Association's Communications Advocacy and Activism Interest Group and Editor-in-Chief of the oldest South African journal in Communication Studies, Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies:
an introduction (Winston Mano and viola c. milton); 2. Afrokology of media
and communication studies: theorising from the margins (Winston Mano and
viola c. milton); 3. Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and African media and
communication studies (Pier Paolo Frassinelli); 4. Rethinking African
strategic communication: towards a new violence (Colin Chasi); 5.
Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as
predicted (Elnerine WJ Gree); 6. To be or not to be: decolonizing African
media/communications (Kehbuma Langmia); 7. Communicating the idea of South
Africa in the age of decoloniality (Blessed Ngwenya); 8. Decolonising media
and communication studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula
transformation debates (Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi); 9. Africa on
demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through
podcasting (Rachel Lara van der Merwe); 10. The African novel and its
global communicative potential: africa's soft power (Mary-Jean Nleya); 11.
Citizen journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens'
digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya (Toyin Ajao); 12. Ghetto
'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe (Hugh Mangeya); 13.
"Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: social media and the 21st-century slave trade
in Libya (Ashley Lewis, Shamilla Amulega, and Kehbuma Langmia); 14. On
community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani
Community Radio (VCR) (Siyasanga M. Tyali); 15. Not just a benevolent
bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability
of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (Kate Skinner); 16. Health
communication in Africa (Elizabeth Lubinga and Karabo Sitto); 17. The
politics of identity, trauma, memory and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's
Chappie (2015) (Beschara Karam); 18. Nollywood as decoloniality (Ikechukwu
Obiaya); 19. Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and
communication studies (viola c. milton and Winston Mano)