"China is changing Africa’s media sphere. The country supports African broadcasters with loans, training, and exchange programmes and has set up its own media operations on the continent, creating an African arm of the state-run broadcaster CCTV and expanding existing initiatives, such as the stat
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e news agency Xinhua. In the telecommunications market China is helping national governments, both democratic and authoritarian, to expand access to the Internet and mobile telephony, and it offers export credits to Chinese companies willing to invest in African markets. For China, media expansion in Africa is a part of its “Going Out” and “soft power” strategies to extend the country’s influence in new sectors and locations. Yet for some this process represents a move in an “information war” in terms of which Chinese-built telecommunications infrastructure is a cybersecurity concern and the tendency of Chinese media to promote “positive reporting” is a threat to independent watchdog journalism." (Summary)
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"China’s media offensive in Africa is an expression of the need to create advantageous conditions for its own trade relations and for strategic alliances, for example in international organizations. At the same time, China’s global charm offensive or »charm defensive« is also a reaction to wha
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t China often feels is unfair reporting in western media about China and China in Africa. Consequently, the Chinese leadership is investing in internationalizing and expanding its state media in cooperation with African state media and in ambitious exchange and training programmes for African journalists. The aforementioned objectives of Chinese foreign media are accompanied and supported by strategic Chinese corporate investment in information technology and telecommunications infrastructure in African countries. In other words, China’s soft power approach is flanked by hard power. German foreign and development policy should carefully analyse the growing competition and criticism of western reporting about Africa and draw conclusions for media development cooperation." (Page 1)
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"China is currently implementing a full-fledged ‘Going Global’ strategy, particularly in Africa. Chinese engagement on the continent is all pervasive and spearheaded by summit conferences and flanked by a surge of Chinese state-own media houses and state-funded cultural institutions. This report
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seeks to contextualize the Chinese media and culture policies and to examine their ideological constituents. An important component of ‘soft power’ as understood by Chinese policymakers is to utilize non-governmental forces, and build citizen diplomacy. Thus mobilizing and educating the Chinese about the strategic importance of Africa has been on the government’s agenda. The report discriminates between various narratives on China-Africa relations and issues emerging from the Chinese press from 2002 to 2011. The conclusion drawn from examining this half-orchestrated, half freestyle media chorus is that, China has been employing domestic media to engage public support to buttress its expansion in Africa." (Abstract)
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"Los medios de comunicación en Latinoamérica, desde hace un par de décadas, experimentan una alta concentración. El presente estudio da cuenta de este proceso en Chile, aplicado a la radiodifusión. Con 2.000 concesiones radiales vigentes, más de 300 han pasado a holdings transnacionales (espa
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oles en su mayoría); la cifra muestra que, cuantitativamente, el número de estaciones concentradas no es alto, lo que ha servido de base para que instancias políticas y judiciales hayan autorizado las diferentes compras. Sin embargo, el presente estudio destaca que esta visión es errada, ya que la concentración se expresa, por una parte, en el control de la mayor parte de la publicidad por parte de estos grupos y, por otra, que al ser estaciones de radio que transmiten desde los centros urbanos (Santiago de Chile), una programación estándar para todo el país, invisibiliza a los distintos actores sociales. Frente a las decisiones políticas al respecto y los contenidos de las emisoras, es necesario explorar e incentivar la producción de programas locales que den cuenta de otras realidades, combinando lo local con la interpretación desde esa mirada, de los fenómenos globales, lo que se ha denominado programaciones 'glocales'." (Resumen)
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"Relato histórico da influência estrangeira na radiodifusão brasileira (no rádio desde 1922 e na televisão de 1950 a 1980). A tese básica do autor é que o rádio é manipulado e dominado principalmente pelos interesses dos EUA. Contém numerosas tabelas." (commbox)
"Die englischen und französischen Verlagshäuser haben das Fehlen einer modernen afrikanischen Presse ausgenutzt, um ihren Einfluss in Zentral- und Ostafrika und in Marokko trotz der Proteste der Journalistengewerkschaften zu vergrößern. Tunesien und Algerien haben die neokolonialistische Presse
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„liquidiert“ und die nationale Presse durch Reformen unterstützt." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1134, topic code 121)
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