"This article examines China–US competition for narratives by analyzing whether and how Chinese and American diplomats engage each other in routine diplomatic outreach to African audiences on Twitter. Drawing on case studies of Kenya and South Africa, our study uncovers “asymmetrical discursive
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competition”—Chinese diplomatic accounts selectively launch discursive attacks (both defensive and offensive) on the United States, while the US diplomatic accounts tend to ignore China. We further find that in invoking the United States, Chinese diplomats largely bypass Africa and African issues, and instead, focus on contesting larger claims about China’s legitimacy." (Abstract)
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"This study draws from scholarship in framing theory and mediated collective memories for the analysis of the adoption of official narratives of US President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy as ready-made news frames by Afghanistan’s Tolo TV’s popular current affairs program as Tawde Khabare
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(Hot Talks). Collected through purposive sampling technique, a comparative qualitative analysis of selected programs of Tawde Khabare and the text of President Trump’s Afghanistan policy suggests that the post-Taliban US-established Afghan media system has largely adopted and borrowed ready-made news frames and official narratives disseminated by the US government to domestic and global media. The ffindings suggest further that official frames of Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policy received greater acceptability in the Tolo TV coverage of the concerned issue. The study has raised several questions regarding the credibility of the post-Taliban Afghan media system and as do similar systems in other post-conflict societies established though the financial and technical help of the US and allied states after 9/11." (Abstract)
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"This book examines US foreign policy toward the so-called 'rogue states' and the products of the Hollywood film industry in relation to these states, which promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the 'soft power' that is popular culture." (Publisher description)
"A commissioned report on the work of the Russian-language broadcasting services of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America by a former Soviet historian who was one of the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, emigrated to the U.S. and is now a consultant to the U.S. Helsinki Watch Committ
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ee. Contains an overview, a general background, a section of each of the services, general conclusions and two appendixes: "Russia Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" and a discussion of "Religious Programs." The author's conclusions are highly critical of the organization and content of the programs. Footnotes." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 475)
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"An in-depth analysis from a global perspective of the problems, the trends, and the forces affecting the post-World War II Philippine press, describing its development and showing how the results were the logical offshoots of broad economic, political and cultural trends. A great deal is said about
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American influences. Appendixes contain "A List of Major Periodicals - 1945-1972" and "A List of Provincial Publications." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 947)
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"Fisher, who has been involved in a number of American governmental communication agencies in connection with Third World countries, including the International Communication Agency, the U.S.I.A., and as a Foreign Service Officer, has drawn upon both his professional experience and the academic disc
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iplines of sociology, anthropology, and social psychology to seek a rationale which would enable him "to produce the kind of 'think piece' analysis that would sharpen the focus on trends and new factors which might affect the logic of a wide range of programs directed toward mutual understanding objectives." He does not pretend to have the answers, only the questions." (Eleanor Blum, Frances G. Wilhoit: Mass media bibliography. 3rd ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990 Nr. 127)
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