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Black / Africana Communication Theory
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 345 pp.
"Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa. Many scholars interested in articulating and interrogating Black communication scholarship are therefore at the crossroads of either having to use Western-driven theory to explain a Black commu
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester
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Habermas in Africa? Re-Interrogating the “Public Sphere” and “Civil Society” in African Political Communication Research
"The public sphere and its associated concept of civil society are frequently cited as representative models for media and political communication in Africa, with little critical reflection on their historical and cultural specificity. In this uncritical narrative of “Habermas in Africa”, the pu
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"This chapter presents an overview of non-Western communication theories for cross-cultural and intercultural research. The chapter specifically focuses on selected Afrocentric and Asiacentric theories of communication because they represent communication theories whose ideas and insights spring fro
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L'éducation aux médias: Un point de vue africain
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 185 pp.
Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication
New York; London: Routledge (2017), vii, 376 pp.
"What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geograph
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out
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Spaces of Resistance in the De-Westernization of Journalism Curricula Narrative in Post-1994 South Africa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-433
"Since 1994, the call to de-westernize journalism education and training curricula has been a major narrative in South Africa’s transformation discourses. Journalism education and training institutions have responded to this call by holding conferences, colloquia, seminars and symposia to try and
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Hacia la comunicación decolonial
Sucre: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2016), 194 pp.
"[...] el nuevo pensamiento crítico latinoamericano se plantea remontar los constreñimientos largamente establecidos por el occidentocentrismo a la vez que despejar la ruta de vetustas o frescas promesas mesiánicas. En lo que concierne a la Comunicación se trata, en lo básico, de reexaminar el
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"La palabra del Vivir Bien/Buen Vivir está caminando en las prácticas, experiencias, interrogantes y construcciones de la comunicación popular, que desde su misión irrenunciable de visibilización y representación de la vida de los pueblos y de sus luchas por un mundo justo, así como por la de
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Chinese War Correspondents: Covering Wars and Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xvi, 204 pp.
"(1) How do Chinese journalists perceive their roles and practices in conflict zones outside China? (2) How do they cover armed conflicts overseas? (3) Who are the actors, and how do they influence Chinese war correspondence? (4) Do the Chinese news media practice peace or war journalism? To answer
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Ubuntu Journalism and Nation-Building Magic
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 5 (2016), pp. 728-744
"This article explores ideas around nation building, as constructed through the ethos as well as practice of ubuntu journalism. We make the argument that by invoking ubuntu as an underlying ethos for a reporting ethic and practice, the news media contribute to a magical idea of nationhood and nation
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The Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods Strands in Media Development
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 14 pp.
"This paper exams the theory and practice of media development by differentiating two major models: The good governance and the sustainable livelihoods strand. Based on this the author questions how governments, organizations, and civil society today collaboratively rethink and organize media system
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Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach
New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.
"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news
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Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470
"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex
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African Ethics and Journalism Ethics: News and Opinion in Light of Ubuntu
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 30, issue 2 (2015), pp. 74-90
"In this article, I address some central issues in journalism ethics from a fresh perspective, namely, one that is theoretical and informed by values salient in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a foundational moral theory with an African pedigree, which is intended to rival Western theories such as Ka
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Internationalizing "International Communication"
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2015), vi, 332 pp.
Combining Detached Watchdog Journalism with Development Ideals: An Exploration of Fijian Journalism Culture
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 6 (2015), pp. 557-576
"Development journalism has been a key focus of discussion among journalism scholars for around half a decade, but most of the attention has been firmly on African and Asian countries. This article examines the situation on the little-researched island nation of Fiji, which has experienced considera
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The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan
St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.
"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and
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