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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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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.
"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)
A Decolonial Analysis of the Cyberbullying of South African Women Journalists
In: Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
Ylva Rodny-Gumede; Colin Chasi; Zubeida Jaffer; Mvuso Ponono (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 135-148
"At the heart of decolonial theory is the love for woman, particularly black woman, as the most oppressed of political categories in the old colonial structures of race, class and gender hierarchy. This chapter uses decolonial theory, specifically Chela Sandoval’s concept of ‘decolonial love’
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In-Between Journalism and Media Development: Negotiating Journalist Safety within Decolonising African Contexts
In: Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
Ylva Rodny-Gumede; Colin Chasi; Zubeida Jaffer; Mvuso Ponono (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 163-186
"Media development has long been a staple in Africa and literature about its conceptualisations, practices and impact abound. One defining characteristic of this literature is that it focuses primarily on media development’s impact on the media’s ability to resist penetration by the state. This
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Esperançar com Freire: Reflexões sobre comunicação e mudança social
Fernanda Amaral (transl.)
Teresina, Brazil: Instituto Ubíqua; Loughborough University (2023), 188 pp.
"Em março de 2021, o Institute for Media and Creative Industries da Loughborough University London organizou, em parceria com a Ubiqua, um ciclo de debates hamado Paulo Freire Centennial: 7 Talks in Preparation for the Next 100 years. Foi um envolvimento precoce com as celebrações pelo centenár
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Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxvii, 558 pp.
"Established in 1957, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has facilitated international exchanges and research collaborations among academics, journalists, and other practitioners, addressing media and communication problems and influencing theory and practice
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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Freire and the Perseverance of Hope: Exploring Communication and Social Change
Paulo Freire (honoured person)
Amsterdam; London: Institute of Network Cultures;Loughborough University (2022), 146 pp.
"The Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (1921-1997) is one of the most important thinkers of the 21st century, figuring among the most quoted authors in the fields of education and social sciences all over the world. He is also a core reference to an infinite number of grassroots and activist initiativ
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Media, conflict and peacebuilding in Africa: Conceptual and empirical considerations
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London; New York: Routledge (2021), xii, 263 pp.
"This book explores the role and place of popular, traditional and digital media platforms in the mediatization, representation and performance of various conflicts and peacebuilding interventions in the African context. The role of the media in conflict is often depicted as either 'good' (as symbol
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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans
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Paulo Freire, 100 Years
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa
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Paulo Freire, 100 anos
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
Communicating for Change: Concepts to Think With
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xiv, 186 pp.
"This collection presents 14 concepts from a multi-disciplinary collection of internationally leading and emerging scholars, from 13 countries on 5 continents. They come together around three meta-topics: citizenship and justice, critiques of development, and renewing thought (from and for the margi
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Conflict-Sensitive Journalism: A Practical Handbook for Journalists in Southern Africa
Windhoek: Namibia University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Communication;Social Science Research Council;African Peacebuilding Network (APN) (2019), 96 pp.
"The collection of essays in this volume seek among other things to draw attention to the virtues of conflict-sensitive journalism as a way of transforming the negative effects of ‘war’ journalism. Contributors to the handbook include journalists drawn from the following countries: eSwatini, Les
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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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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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 Truth and Nothing But the Truth: A Re-Affirmation and Re-Evaluation of Undercover Journalism Practices
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2016), pp. 107-128
"The role of journalism in contemporary society is highly debated and highly contested all over the world, even more so in the context of young democracies. We note that in societies where journalism faces constant threats of tighter government control and where even the most innocuous piece of repo
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r
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HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa: Are You Human?
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 89 pp.
"Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicab
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The Handbook of Development Communication and Social Change
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Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), xii, 512 pp.
