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The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication

Thomas K. Nakayama (ed.)

Chichester (UK); Malden, MA; New York: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xvii, 630 pp.

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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
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Lawrence Pintak

London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.

"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in ... more

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Teaching Journalism or Teaching African Journalism? Experiences from Foreign Involvement in a Journalism Programme in Ethiopia

Terje S. Skjerdal

Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 24-51

"Journalism programmes across the African continent have different attitudes to the issue of universal vs. local values in journalism. This article discusses the issue in light of a post-graduate journalism programme that opened at Addis Ababa University in 2004. In its 5-year implementation phase, ... more

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Towards a Theory of Communication for Africa: The Challenges for Emerging Democracies

Levi Obonyo

Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20

"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of ... more

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De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks

Georgette Wang (ed.)

London et al.: Routledge (2011), 288 pp.

"The rise of postmodern theories and pluralist thinking has paved the way for multicultural approaches to communication studies and now is the time for decentralization, de-Westernization, and differentiation. This trend is reflected in the increasing number of communication journals with a national ... more

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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?

Iginio Gagliardone, Maria Repnikova, Nicole Stremlau

Oxford; London: University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP);Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp.

"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi ... more

Pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano: Entre el saber y el poder

José Marques de Melo

Sevilla; Zamora: Comunicación Social (2009), 379 pp.

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Al-Jazeera vor Ort: Journalismus als ethische Praxis

Sarah Jurkiewicz

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2009), 136 pp.

"Die Auslandskorrespondenten des bekanntesten arabischen Nachrichtensenders Al-Jazeera sind in ihrer Arbeit in Europa mit widerstreitenden Anforderungen konfrontiert. Sie müssen gleichermaßen den professionellen Standards der Nachrichtenproduktion wie den Repräsentanzansprüchen seitens der arabi ... more

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The Handbook of Journalism Studies
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Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Thomas Hanitzsch (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2009), xx, 446 pp.

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Towards an African Journalism Model: A Critical Historical Perspective

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw

International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 491-510

"Much of the scholarly literature regarding theories of journalism practice is premised on the tenets of the western model of liberal democracy. To the extent that this model is held to be universal, it hinders the analytical theorization of journalistic precepts that have evolved locally in most co ... more

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Media in Africa: Political, Cultural and Theoretical Trajectories in the Global Environment

Arnold Shepperson, Keyan G. Tomaselli

International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 473-489

"This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with Western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communica ... more

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Media and Democratisation in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 269-426

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Two Models for Pacific Islands Journalism Education

Steve Sharp, Evangelia Papoutsaki

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 82-101

"The intellectual undernourishment of journalism education and research is tied to wider problems in Pacific academic culture. On a macro level, Pacific media communities can apply their own social capital to the task of media development according to their own agendas, drawing on sound data and ana ... more

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The Televised Community: Culture, Politics, and the Market of Visual Representation in India

Britta Ohm

Frankfurt, Oder: European University Viadrina, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Doctoral Thesis (2007), 384 pp.

"This thesis provides, firstly, an analysis of the interplay of transnational media corporations, particularly Rupert Murdoch's Star TV, in their pursuit of creating profitable national consumer markets, preferably in a democracy like India, with the anti-minority politics, modes of popular/populist ... mobilisation and discursive strategies of Hindu nationalism. It looks at the economic, technological, medial, political, social, visual/iconographic and legal aspects of this interplay and delineates their concrete manifestations in news as well as in entertainment programming of everyday television (particularly in very popular shows and channels at the time). These aspects are set into the larger framework of globalisation, privatisation, commercialisation and neo-liberal policies, the related thrusts of social upward mobility (especially in the new middle classes), ‘good governance’ (instead of socio-economic justice) and shifting class-, caste-, majority-minority and national-regional relations in the context of a re-formulation of nation and state that defines and legitimises new logics of inclusion and exclusion. Secondly, this work is a study of "Indianisation" and lingual/representational politics in the context of the growing precariousness of the liberal-secular discourse and of democratic, independent mass media in India. Especially English-language journalists, whose largely critical coverage of the anti-Muslim violence experienced an hitherto unknown rejection on the part of TV audiences (and consequently produced a slump in advertising revenues), turned with the Gujarat crisis out to epitomise the ambivalence of challenging the definitional power of a privileged postcolonial class: its rightful critique carries the danger of vindicating and naturalising anti-minority cultural nationalism. The study follows and examines, before the background of a normative construction of a Hindi-speaking, ‘authentic’ media consumer, the changing position of both English and Hindi-producing journalists and producers, their respective perceptions of alienation, speechlessness and empowerment, their unwanted role as activists in the context of shifting meanings of 'neutrality' and 'objectivity', their difficulties or agility in assessing their options and maintaining, changing or even developing their convictions, and the strategies they find or reject for adapting to the circumstances." (Abstract) more

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Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow

Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), 267 pp.

"Media on the Move provides a critical analysis of the dynamics of the international flow of images and ideas. This comes at a time when the political, economic and technological contexts within which media organisations operate are becoming increasingly global. The surge in transnational traffic in ... more

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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
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Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh (ed.)

Accra: Ghana Universities Press (2005), xvi, 282 pp.

"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co ... more

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African Renaissance and Discourse Ownership in the Information Age: The Internet as a Factor of Domination and Liberation

Eric Van Grasdorff

Münster: Lit (2005), 128 pp.

"The information revolution is transforming the world, especially the industrialised world. But what are its implications for the implementation of an African renaissance? Based on a Foucaultian analytical framework this book argues that the Internet has become a major Western instrument of dominati ... more

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De-Westernizing Media Studies

James Curran, Myung-Jin Park (eds.)

London: Routledge (2000), 342 pp.

"De-Westernizing Media Studies brings together leading media critics from around the world to address central questions in the study of the media. How do the media connect to power in society? Who and what influence the media? How is globalization changing both society and the media?" (Publisher des ... more