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Toward a Theory of African Communication
Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434
"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica
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Postcolonial Piracy: Media Distribution and Cultural Production in the Global South
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), ix, 300 pp.
"Across the global South, new media technologies have brought about new forms of cultural production, distribution and reception. The spread of cassette recorders in the 1970s; the introduction of analogue and digital video formats in the 80s and 90s; the pervasive availability of recycled computer
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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition
New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.
"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers
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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479
"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no
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The Functions of Silence in India: Implications for Intercultural Communication Research
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 248-254
"Although it is often viewed negatively in the West, silence is interpreted as a sign of interpersonal sensitivity, mutual respect, a sens of personal dignity, affirmation, and wisdom in the cultural context of India. At the individual level, silence serves as the means for the individual soul to ac
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Nommo, Kawaida, and Communicative Practice: Bringing Good Into the World
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 211-225
"In this chapter, Maulana Karenga explores ancient and ongoing African traditions of communicative practice in understanding African American rhetoric. For Karenga, African rhetoric is essentially the communicative practice that is oriented to building community and bringing good into the world, whi
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Communication and Cultural Settings: An Islamic Perspective
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 237-247
"In this chaper, Hamid Mowlana elucidates four cardinal concepts of the Islamic worldview that may serve as the fundamental principles of ethical communication in Muslim societies: (1) tawhid (unity, coherence, and harmony of all in the universe), (2) amr bi al-ma'ruf wa nahy'an al munkar (commandin
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Theorizing About Communication in India: Sadharanikaran, Rasa, and Other Tradtions in Rhetorics and Aesthetics
De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 361-372
"The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the "de-westernization" of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge." (Abstract)
Communication Theories in a Multicultural World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.
The Two Faces of Chinese Communication
In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader
New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 273-282
"In this chapter, Guo-Ming Chen portrays two faces of communication in Chinese culture. He thematizes harmony, one of the core Chinese cultural values, to paint a picture of the first face. According to him, in order to achieve harmony, Chinese people would (1) follow the principles of jen (benevole
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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.
"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and
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Philosophy Manual: A South-South Perspective
Paris; Rabat: UNESCO (2014), 243 pp.
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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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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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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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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