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Cinema and Development in West Africa
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident
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Global Nollywood: The Transnational Dimensions of an African Video Film Industry
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), viii, 371 pp.
Exploring the Diegesis of the Haridasi Kirtan: A Critical Study
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 22-32
"It is argued that to identify an Indian theory of communication Rasa and Dhvani experience must be studied in multimedia and multicultural contexts of the contemporary media universe and that such a theory shall emerge better from an in depth study of Indian folk media. The study explores the world
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Postcolonial Cinema Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2012), xviii, 250 pp.
"This collection of essays foregrounds the work of filmmakers in theorizing and comparing postcolonial conditions, recasting debates in both cinema and postcolonial studies. Postcolonial cinema is presented, not as a rigid category, but as an optic through which to address questions of postcolonial
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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The Three Alternative Journalisms of Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe
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Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
London; New York: Zed Books, 2nd ed. (2012), xv, 240 pp.
"To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which academic research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory. This essential volume explores intersections of imperialism and research - specifically, the ways in which imp
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De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks
London et al.: Routledge (2011), 288 pp.
"The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national
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Towards a Theory of Communication for Africa: The Challenges for Emerging Democracies
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20
"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of
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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?
Oxford; London: University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP); Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.
"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi
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La Comunicología de Liberación, otra fuente para el pensamiento decolonial. Una aproximación a las ideas de Luis Ramiro Beltrán
Quórum Academico, volume 7, issue 1 (2010), pp. 65-77
"El artículo plantea que la Comunicología de Liberación propuesta por el boliviano Luis Ramiro Beltrán en 1976 puede ser considerada entre las fuentes del pensamiento decolonial junto a otras elaboraciones del dependentismo y el anticolonialismo latinoamericano de entonces. El programa de invest
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Descolonizar el saber, reinventar el poder
Montevideo: Ediciones Trilce; Universidad de la República, Extensión Universitaria (2010), 110 pp.
"Es tan difícil imaginar el fin del capitalismo como imaginar que el capitalismo no tenga fin. Ese dilema ha fracturado el pensamiento crítico de izquierda en dos vertientes que plantean opciones políticas distintas. Una de ellas dejó de preocuparse por el fin del capitalismo y centra su creativ
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Media in Africa: Political, Cultural and Theoretical Trajectories in the Global Environment
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 473-489
"This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with Western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communica
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Pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano: Entre el saber y el poder
Sevilla; Zamora: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2009), 379 pp.
Towards an African Journalism Model: A Critical Historical Perspective
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 491-510
"Much of the scholarly literature regarding theories of journalism practice is premised on the tenets of the western model of liberal democracy. To the extent that this model is held to be universal, it hinders the analytical theorization of journalistic precepts that have evolved locally in most co
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Indianizing Film: Decolonization, the Andes and the Question of Technology
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press (2009), ix, 282 pp.
Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria
Durham: Duke University Press (2008), xi, 314 pp.
"In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of media in Nigeria, asking what media theory looks like when Nigeria rather than a European nation or the United States is taken as the starting point. Concentrating on the Muslim city of Kano in the north of Nigeria, Lar
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Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow
Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), 267 pp.
"Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global. The surge in transnational traffic in
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