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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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Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation and Subversion
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2015), xv, 203 pp.
A quiet revolution: The moral economies shaping journalists’ use of NGO-provided multimedia in mainstream news about Africa
London: University of London, Goldsmiths, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 495 pp.
"Building a body of empirical evidence about why and how journalists use such multimedia and the consequences of this for journalism, NGO-work and those represented, is the central focus of this thesis. Unlike previous research on news coverage of Africa and journalists’ use of NGO-provided multim
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Foreign Correspondents Report from Africa: Pulitzer Prize Winning Articles and Pictures
Wien; Münster: Lit (2014), 189 pp.
Afrika 3.0: Mediale Abbilder und Zerrbilder eines Kontinents im Wandel
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2014), 170 pp.
"Der zweitgrößte Kontinent mit seinen mehr als 50 Staaten und über einer Milliarde Menschen wird in den Medien oft pauschal gesehen. Regionale Krisensymptome werden auf ganz Afrika übertragen, die kulturelle Vielfalt und ökonomische Entwicklungen finden zu wenig Beachtung. Der vorliegende Band
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Afrika(ner)bilder in westlichen Medien: Ungleichheit und die Repräsentation des Anderen im Zuge globaler Kommunikationsflüsse
Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema
New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.
"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o
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Afrika! Plädoyer für eine differenzierte Berichterstattung
Konstanz; München: UVK (2013), 192 pp.
"Seit Jahrzehnten wird die mangelnde Qualität der Afrika-Berichterstattung in deutschsprachigen Medien kritisiert. Zu Recht: Die Überbetonung von negativen Aspekten wie Bürgerkriegen, Hungerkatastrophen und Krankheiten entspricht den aktuellen Entwicklungen auf dem aufstrebenden Erdteil kaum. Afr
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The Use of Stereotypical Images of Africa in Fundraising Campaigns
European Scientific Journal, volume 9, issue 11 (2013), pp. 20-31
"This article critically examines Unicef’s campaign in Slovenia, aimed at helping children in Ruanda, which caused huge public support in terms of the raised finances and visibility, but it also provoked a serious opposition from African people living in Slovenia and some academics. The article in
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Kein Platz an der Sonne: Erinnerungsorte der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte
Frankfurt am Main; New York: Campus Verlag (2013), 524 pp.
"Namibia gehört heute zu den beliebtesten Fernreisezielen der Deutschen - vielleicht auch deshalb, weil es einst als "Deutsch-Südwestafrika" Kolonie war. Die Erfahrung von Tourismus und Globalisierung rückte in den vergangenen Jahren den europäischen Kolonialismus, der auch die deutsche Geschich
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Half-Orchestrated, Half Freestyle: Soft Power and Reporting Africa in China
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 102-124
"The discussion of soft power in China can be dated back to 1992, the year Nye's Bound to lead was translated into Chinese and published in Mainland China. Chinese scholars urged that restrictions on civil society be lifted, since China's lack of voluntary associations and NGOs drastically hindered
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African History Teaching in Contemporary German Textbooks: From Biased Knowledge to Duty of Remembrance
Yesterday & Today, issue 10 (2013), pp. 49-76
"In early colonial times, European scientists explained and justified the aggressive and devastating expansion of Europe into nearly every corner of the world. Africans, for example, had been dehumanized, infantilized and bereft of history. The legacy of this manipulative enterprise can still be obs
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A Grey Area: The Nigerien Sahel in the French Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 61-74
"This paper analyses how the French media perceive the advent of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the Sahel, and particularly in Niger. It shows that the French media are constructing Niger as a ‘grey area’, a dangerous place and a ‘failed state’ through a monolithic discourse rooted in
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News audiences beware! Insights from Darfur
Media Development, volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 32-36
Mediated Culture and the Well-Informed Global Citizen: Images of Africa in the Global North
Nordicom Review, volume 31, issue 2 (2010), pp. 47-61
"During recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the negative portrayal of the African continent in the media of the so-called ‘global North’. Significantly less focus has been put on how to actually represent Africa in the news as more than the site of catastrophes or in other ways
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Racism and the Image of Africa in German Schools and Textbooks
International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations, volume 10, issue 5 (2010), pp. 1-12
"Poverty, violence and underdevelopment are the prevailing images of Africa in German history and geography textbooks. Pre-colonial African history, African culture and philosophy are not covered by Eurocentric curricula. Classic and modern western literature is interspersed with stereotypes about A
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The Neglect of Africa and the Power of Aid
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 1 (2010), pp. 71-84
"Using exclusive access to the BBC archive, the article examines how and why media coverage of Africa has been misleading and misinformed in the postcolonial period. It examines the extent to which the close relationship between media coverage and aid agencies has damaged the cause of informing the
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