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Africa in the Media
USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, The African Narrative (2019), 51 pp.
"Stories about Africa appeared infrequently on U.S. television: a mention appeared once in every five hours of TV programming. Viewers were seven times more likely to see references to Europe. Despite the low frequency of mentions, we know that there were more than 3.6 billion views of these depicti
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Journalism on Darfur Between Social Fields: Global and National Forces
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 237-252
"In presenting some of the findings from an analysis of 3,387 media reports and from interviews with Africa correspondents and other journalists from eight countries, this chapter provides several insights on patterns of media representations of the conflict in Darfur. After initial neglect, peaks i
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Representations of Africa through Photography
Boulder: University of Colorado at Boulder, Undergraduate Thesis (2019), 49 pp.
Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xv, 218 pp.
"This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa's biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Afri
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Afrikabilder: Kontinuitäten und Brüche - Geschichte und Gegenwart des kolonialen Blicks in der deutschen Medienlandschaft
Bildungsvereinigung Arbeit und Leben Bremen (2018), 87 pp.
Reporting Africa: Media and the Africa Story
Nairobi: African Media Initiative (AMI) (2018), 43 pp.
Rethinking Audiences: Visual Representations of Africa and the Nigerian Diaspora
Manchester: University of Manchester, Doctoral Thesis (2018), 243 pp.
Who's Reporting Africa Now? Non-Governmental Organizations, Journalists, and Multimedia
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xiv, 280 pp.
"As news organizations cut correspondent posts and foreign bureaux, non-governmental organizations have begun to expand into news reporting. But why and how do journalists use the photographs, video, and audio that NGOs produce? What are the effects of this on the kinds of stories told about Africa?
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Die Spitze des Eisbergs: Spendenwerbung der internationalen Hilfsorganisationen - Kritik und Alternativen
Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD);Glokal e.V. (2017), 35 pp.
"Das berüchtigte Bild des hungernden, nackten, ungeschützten Kindes ist ein Leitmotiv in der humanitären Hilfe, das bis heute kollektive und individuelle Vorstellungswelten im Globalen Norden formt. Die Bilderwelten, die die Krisen im Globalen Süden porträtieren, sind geprägt von einer kolonia
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
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London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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Reporting Humanitarian Narratives: Are We Missing Out on the Politics?
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen; Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 189-199
"Suzanne Franks discusses how the visually dominated storytelling of famines in Africa distorted the causes of famine and therefore obscured the most effective solutions. As journalists struggled to document the depths of human suffering, humanitarian communication in these early stages raised compa
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The Myth of Representations of Africa: A Comprehensive Scoping Review of the Literature
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 2 (2017), pp. 191-210
"This paper presents the results of a comprehensive scoping review of empirical research into US and UK media representations of Africa published between 1990 and 2014. The results show that existing research has a remarkably narrow focus on a specific number of countries, events, media and texts. R
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Late Capitalism, Urbanisation, and Cultures of Economic “survivalism” in the BBC’s 'Welcome to Lagos'
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 1 (2017), pp. 101-113
"This article examines the depiction of three impoverished Lagosian slums in the controversial British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary, Welcome to Lagos, which highlights the negative impacts of globalised capitalism on urban culture in Nigeria’s commercial centre and biggest city. In r
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Diamonds Are Forever? Press Coverage of African Conflicts and the Westphalian Filter of Resource Wars
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 109-126
"This article argues that when it comes to reporting conflicts in the developing world the western press ignores the private sphere of economic activity because it privileges a narrative of people fighting over the nation state, as well as political ideologies and territory gained and lost. This cho
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Afrikanisch-Europäische Medienbeziehungen
Medien & Zeit, volume 31, issue 2 (2016), pp. 2-57
"In your text, treat Africa as if it were one country“ (Wainaina, 2012) – was der kenianische Autor und Gründer des Literaturmagazins Kwani Binyavanga Wainaina in seiner satirischen Gebrauchsanweisung How to Write about Africa SchriftstellerInnen empfiehlt, wird in Medienbeiträgen zu Afrika be
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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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Afrika
fluter (Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung), issue 59 (2016), 50 pp.
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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Not Up for Debate: U.S. News Coverage of Hunger in Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23
"This article explores how the U.S. news media construct the topic of hunger in Africa for U.S. audiences. Specifically, the article addresses how newspapers define and delimit the relationship between U.S. citizens and foreign sufferers. Through a framing analysis and critical discourse analysis of
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Blaming the Victim: How Global Journalism Fails Those in Poverty
London: Pluto Press (2015), viii, 215 pp.
"In Blaming the Victim, Jairo Lugo-Ocando sets out to deconstruct and reconsider the variety of ways in which the global news media misrepresent and decontextualise the causes and consequences of poverty worldwide. The result is that the fundamental determinant of poverty - inequality - is removed f
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