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Mobile telephony and changing patterns of audiences’ engagement with global media in Africa
Global Media and Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 71-89
"This article explores the patterns and consequences of transnational audiences’ engagement with global media in the digital age, focusing on experiences in Africa. It examines Nigerians’ interactions with the BBC World Service, and draws on active audience theory and Joseph Nye’s soft power c
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BBC Creative Diversity Commitment: A report on the impact of the BBC’s £112 million Creative Diversity Commitment
Birmingham: Birmingham City University;Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity (2024), 72 pp.
The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 233 pp.
"This book explores how television in the global South is 'future-proofing' its continued relevance, addressing its commercial, social and political viability in a constantly changing information ecosystem. The chapter contributions in the book are drawn from countries in East, South and West Africa
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Quality Assessment of Radio News in Afghanistan (BBC, Killid, Azadi, & Afghanistan)
Advances in Journalism and Communication, volume 8 (2020), pp. 97-116
"This study identifies and evaluates the quality assessment of radio news in the country. To conduct this research, the researcher first posed the questions and objectives of the research and then, according to the nature of the work, used exploratory and applied research. The researcher consulted w
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Soft Power, Hard News: How Journalists at State-Funded Transnational Media Legitimize Their Work
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 25, issue 4 (2020), pp. 607-631
"How do journalists working for different state-funded international news organizations legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? We address these questions through a com
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses
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Radio, Politics and Trust in Afghanistan: A Social History of Broadcasting
International Communication Gazette, volume 64, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-279
"This article examines the sociohistorical role of radio broadcasting in Afghanistan and analyses the interplay between the radio choices of the audience, political change and conflict. Though never explicitly trusted as a credible information source, the popularity of national radio in Afghanistan
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Framing Famine: An Analysis of Media Coverage of the 2011 Famine in Somalia
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 100-119
"This study examines media coverage of the 2011–2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al-Jazeera. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it explores why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of its inevitable unf
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Representation of China and the United States in Africa in Online Global News
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9, issue 1 (2016), pp. 107-125
"This article examines global representation of the primary continental imperialisms reshaping contemporary Africa: the parallel expansionist exercises of China (centering on commercial expansion) and of the United States (centering on military expansion). Our analysis assesses the current state of
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Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
London: Hurst (2013), x, 236 pp.
"The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of
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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236
"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then
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Assessing the Potential of Channel NewsAsia as the Next ‘Al Jazeera’: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 83-99
"The Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, has emerged as a prime example of a global media contra-flow that has been able to give its region a voice in the international news arena. At a time when developments like the global economic crisis have called for greater checks and balances on Western governm
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Deciphering User-Generated Content in Transitional Societies: A Syria Coverage Case Study
Washington, DC: Internews;Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2012), 40 pp.
"The objective of this study is to look at how two prominent Arab-language news organisations, BBC Arabic and Al Jazeera Arabic (AJA), have used social media and user-generated content — photos, videos and comments — to provide coverage of the uprising in Syria. Due to the unique pressures in co
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Global Media Research: Can We Know Global Audiences? A View from a BBC Perspective
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 40-53
Interactivity, the Global Conversation and World Service Research: Digital China
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 48-74
"This paper examines the relationship between a broadcaster’s research methods and aspects of the environment in which it operates, specifically its accountability to its funders and the growth of interactivity by its users. It is concerned with (1) how the BBC World Service’s funding by the UK
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Audience Research at the BBC World Service 1932-2010
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 75-103
"This article examines the changing ways in which intelligence about the BBC’s international audiences has been gathered and used since the advent of the Empire Service in 1932. It is written from the perspective of a former Head of Audience Research (1982-96) at the BBC World Service. In BBC dome
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Local Radio, Going Global
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xv, 202 pp.
"An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces the early development of local radio through to prese
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Das Islambild im internationalen Fernsehen: Ein Vergleich der Nachrichtensender Al Jazeera English, BBC World und CNN International
Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 173 pp.
"Die Autorin vergleicht im vorliegenden Buch die Berichtserstattung der globalen Nachrichtensender der westlichen Welt BBC World und CNN International mit dem Sender Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera English ist der erste englisch-sprachige Nachrichtenkanal aus dem Nahen Osten, der via Satellit weltwei
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Afghanistan Media Survey
D3 Systems;ACSOR-Surveys;BBC Trust (2008), 30 pp.
"BBC listenership in Afghanistan remains strong and the station has retained a strong brand presence. BBC radio is among the most listened to stations in Afghanistan. Over half (57%) of adults had listened within the past week at the time of the survey in January 2008. 75% of the population claimed
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Die Rolle des Auslandsrundfunks: Eine vergleichende Analyse der Erfahrungen und Trends in fünf Ländern: Gutachten
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2000), 85 pp.
