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De-Westernizing Communication Studies: A Reassessment
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 361-372
"The goal of this special issue is to revisit the terms of the debate about the "de-westernization" of communication studies and related issues such as the globalization, internationalization, cosmopolitanism, and indigenization of academic knowledge." (Abstract)
Bridging the Cultural Gaps in Journalism Training and Education in Asia
Singapore: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), 186 pp.
"Governments in parts of Asia and media scholars have alluded to a form of journalism that should reflect ‘Asian cultural values’ rather than defer to media practices and media cultures of the West. These are commonly attributed to a cultural preference for consensus rather than confrontation, o
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More Than a Belated Gutenberg Age: Daily Newspapers in India. An Overview of the Print Media Development Since the 1980s, Key Issues and Current Perspectives
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 3, issue 2 (2013), 25 pp.
"The Indian newspaper market still keeps growing and has attracted the interest of multinational corporations. One reason for this is that India is presently one of the largest markets for English-language newspapers and magazines in the world. Notwithstanding the continued growth of the English-lan
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Reporting China in Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 3 (2013), pp. 1-160
Assessing the Potential of Channel NewsAsia as the Next ‘Al Jazeera’: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Channel NewsAsia and the BBC
Global Media and Communication, volume 9, issue 2 (2013), pp. 83-99
"The Qatari news network, Al Jazeera, has emerged as a prime example of a global media contra-flow that has been able to give its region a voice in the international news arena. At a time when developments like the global economic crisis have called for greater checks and balances on Western governm
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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The Three Alternative Journalisms of Africa
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe
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The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication
Chichester (UK); Malden, MA; New York: Wiley Blackwell (2011), xvii, 630 pp.
De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks
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
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Deep Insights
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
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Towards a Theory of Communication for Africa: The Challenges for Emerging Democracies
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
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Teaching Journalism or Teaching African Journalism? Experiences from Foreign Involvement in a Journalism Programme in Ethiopia
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,
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China in Africa: A New Approach to Media Development?
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
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Al-Jazeera vor Ort: Journalismus als ethische Praxis
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
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Pensamiento comunicacional latinoamericano: Entre el saber y el poder
Sevilla; Zamora: Comunicación Social Ediciones y Publicaciones (2009), 379 pp.
The Handbook of Journalism Studies
Deep Insights
New York: Routledge (2009), xx, 446 pp.
"This Handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations
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Media in Africa: Political, Cultural and Theoretical Trajectories in the Global Environment
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
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Towards an African Journalism Model: A Critical Historical Perspective
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
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Two Models for Pacific Islands Journalism Education
In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues
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
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Media and Democratisation in Africa
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 1, issue 3 (2008), pp. 269-426
