Communication Rights in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Emerging Discourses and Perspectives
Redaktion: Chari, Tendai; Akpojivi, Ufuoma

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This ground-breaking volume examines enduring and emerging discourses around communication rights in Africa, arguing they should be considered an integral component of human rights discourse. The book will interest those in the fields of media studies, journalism, human rights, political science, public policy, as well as general readers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000955040
• Artikelnr.: 68422704

Autorenporträt

Tendai Chari is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and a National Research Foundation (NRF) C3 Rated Researcher at the University of Venda, South Africa. He holds a PhD in media studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Previously, he lectured at several universities in Africa, including the University of Zimbabwe (where he was head of the media programme in the English department), the National University of Science and Technology and Fort Hare University (South Africa). Chari is widely published in the field of media and communication studies, and his research focuses on political communication with a broadened horizon on the interface between digital media and politics, media and conflict, and media ethics and popular culture. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of African Media Studies, African Identities, Communicatio: South African Journal on Media and Communications, African Journalism Studies, and the Journal of African Elections. He is the co-editor of Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Professor Martin N. Ndlela), African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives: The Legacy of FIFA 2010 World Cup (2014 Palgrave Macmillan; co-edited with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri); Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age (IGI Global Publishing, 2017; also with Professor Nhamo A. Mhiripiri); and Political Transition in Southern Africa: Democratic Consolidation or Change of Façade? He is a recipient of several grants and fellowships, which include the African Peace Building Network Fellowship (2017), the African Peacebuilding Book Publishing Manuscript grant (2018), the African Humanities Program (AHP) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2022). Chari is working on finalising his single-authored book titled Diaspora Media and Homeland Conflict: Coloniality of Conflict Journalism in Zimbabwe (Routledge 2023). Ufuoma Akpojivi (PhD) is Policy, Research and Learning Lead at Advocates for International Development (A4ID), United Kingdom. Before this, he was an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa and a visiting professor at the School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria. He holds a PhD and MA in communications studies from the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. His research interests cut across media policy, democracy, citizenship, new media technologies, and political communications, and he has widely published on these issues. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa, C2 Rated Researcher and a recipient of numerous teaching and learning awards such as the Vice Chancellor Individual Teaching and Learning Award (2017), Faculty of Humanities Individual Teaching and Learning Award (2017), Vice Chancellor Team Teaching and Learning Award (2016), and Faculty of Humanities Team Teaching and Learning Award (2016). He is the author of Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa (Palgrave 2018) and Social Movements, and Digital Activism in Africa (Palgrave, 2023).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Communication Rights in Africa: Theoretical and Practical
Considerations Part I: Cultural and Minority Rights 1: Language-Cultural
Barrier in Ubang Community: A Critical Assessment of the Communication
Rights of Women and the Girl-Child 2: Silicon Savannah or Digitising
Marginalisation? A Reflection of Kenya's Government Digitization Policies,
Strategies and Projects 3: Please do not call it human right: a Southern
Epistemological perspective on the digital inclusion of people with
disabilities in South Africa 4: The Interdependence of Communication,
Political, and Socio-Economic Rights: Examining the Lived Experiences of
Digitally Marginalised Netizens Before and During the COVID-19 Lockdown in
Lagos State, Nigeria. Part II: Digital Citizenship 5: Cabo Delgado Também é
Moçambique: The Paths of Youth Digital Activism in a Restrictive Context
6: Citizen journalism and the entrenchment of communication rights in
Zimbabwe Part III: Freedom, Censorship and Intellectual Property Rights 7:
'The right to tell my story as I please': Regulation and self-censorship in
the Nigerian film industry 8: A critical review of intellectual property
rights: The case of Nigeria 9: Internet shutdowns in semi-authoritarian
regimes: The case of Cameroon 10: Fake news v Freedom of expression.
Legislating media trademarks infringements on Social Media Platforms in
Kenya and South Africa Part IV: Politics of Digital Infrastructures 11:
Politics of Digital Infrastructures in the Global South: The Case of
#DataMustFall Campaign in South Africa 12: Silence and Silent the SóróSoké
Generation: The Politicisation of Social Media in Nigeria