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Imagining AI
Top Insights
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2023), xvii, 423 pp.
"Imagining AI: How the World Sees Intelligent Machines is the first volume showcasing research into how different cultures around the globe envision life with artificial intelligence. AI is now a global phenomenon. Yet Hollywood narratives dominate perceptions of AI in the English-speaking West and
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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.
"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A
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When Fact-Checking Is Not WEIRD: Negotiating Consensus Outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic Countries
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 30, issue 1 (2025), pp. 256-276
"This study unpacks the emerging framework of detection, verification, and correction of falsehoods developed by fact-checkers outside Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic countries. We explore a series of semistructured interviews carried out in several languages with thirty-seve
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Unpacking the African media typology: Perspectives from journalists in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
International Communication Gazette (2025), ?? pp.
"The uniqueness of journalism cultures across African nations often highlights the inapplicability of normative, Western-centric theories. The newly proposed African media typology suggests that media systems in Africa would be best understood by thinking about them within the context of the type of
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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The Palgrave Handbook of Cross-Border Journalism
Top Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxv, 618 pp.
"This handbook critically analyzes cross-border news production and "transnational journalism cultures" in the evolving field of cross-border journalism. As the era of the internet hasfurther expanded the border-transcending production, dissemination and reception of news, and with transnational co-
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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.
"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm
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The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance
Big Data & Society, issue April–June (2024), 13 pp.
"Blockchain originated from the aspiration for decentralization, and in Western countries, its association with freedom from governmental and corporate dominance remains unwavering. However, in China–where blockchain has taken an intriguing foothold–the socio-technical imaginaries of blockchain
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La comunicación popular en Nuestramérica: Visiones y horizontes
Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), Programa de medios y comunicación para América Latina y el Caribe (2024), 209 pp.
"El conjunto de textos reunidos en este libro demuestra la vigencia histórica y actual de la comunicación popular en Nuestramérica - y más allá. De las iniciativas barriales a las construcciones algorítmicas, pasando por miradas ancestrales y decoloniales, la reflexión y practica de esta comu
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Towards a circular theory of communication: The case of the Wayusa ritual of the traditional Kichwa people of Sarayaku
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 8 (2024), pp. 145-167
"The Wayusa is a community ritual that is part of the exercise of political imagination among the Kichwa Indigenous people of Sarayaku, in Ecuador. In this article it will be discussed as a case study arguing towards a circular theory of communication, emerging from the works of Paulo Freire and cal
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Journalism Practices in Western and Muslim Majority Countries: Culture Matters
International Journal of Press/Politics (2024), ?? pp.
"In this article, we suggest that the ideological cultural forces explain the differences in journalism practices in Western and Muslim majority countries (MMC). It is argued that the norms, values, and the deep political culture of the West and MMC have been materialized leading to different types
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Conflict journalism, coloniality and election violence in Zimbabwe: The case for Ubuntu ethics
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 303-320
"Drawing insights from decolonial theory and Ubuntu ethics, this article examines coloniality practices embedded in conflict journalism in Zimbabwe. It uses election violence reporting between 2000 and 2013 as a lens for gaining insights into how reporting conflicts perpetuates coloniality. How colo
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Different Global Journalisms: Cultures and Contexts
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvi, 205 pp.
"This edited collection seeks to better understand how journalism across cultures differs, presenting an in-depth exploration of global practices that departs from the typical Western-centric approach. Journalists across the world are trained, generally speaking, within Western models of reporting a
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Journalism Cultures in Sierra Leone: Between Global Norms and Local Pressures
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xx, 212 pp.
"This book provides novel insights into the perspectives of journalists in Sierra Leone and on their work by examining their perceived journalistic values and the influences that shape them. It treats journalism as an occupational identity and as a community that works on the foundation of the sub-S
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Otredades: Comunicología de los sures
Ediciones CIESPAL (2023), 236 pp.
Toward an African Media Typology: Preliminary Reflections
Howard Journal of Communication, volume 35, issue 3 (2023), pp. 326–340
"Africans’ voices and contributions to communication scholarship are of interest to many Africanists. Some discourses have explored reasons for this interest. This article continues this conversation. It recognizes the challenges contributing to the limited influence of the African voice in global
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Kuratierte Öffentlichkeit: Eine postkoloniale Ethnografie journalistischer Praxis in Jordanien
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 265 pp.
"Öffentlichkeit ist der zentrale Begriff in Diskussionen über Demokratie und politische Partizipation. Johanna Montanari erweitert den Öffentlichkeitsbegriff postkolonial, indem sie den globalen Süden nicht als defizitären Raum "nachholender Modernisierung" beschreibt, sondern die Anstrengungen
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Media and Communication Theory in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxii, 340 pp.
"This contributed volume explores theories of media and communication and focuses on providing African perspectives on global conversations. Using broad cases relating to media and communication theories, this book explores socio-cultural issues affecting most modern African societies, providing a c
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Communications in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire: A Critical History
Champaign: University of Illinois Press (2023), 287 pp.
"The history of communications in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey contradicts the widespread belief that communications is a byproduct of modern capitalism and other Western forces. Burçe Çelik uses a decolonial perspective to analyze the historical commodification and militarization of communicatio
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Global South Discourse in East Asian Media Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 187 pp.
"This book examines the nexus of East Asian media, culture, and digital technologies in the early 21st century from a Global South perspective. Providing an empirically rich analysis of the emergence of Asian culture, histories, texts, and state policies as they relate to both Asian media and global
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