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Africa's media image in the 21st century : from the "Heart of darkness" to "Africa rising" / edited by Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, and Chris Paterson.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
©2017
Description
xvii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subject(s)
Journalism
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Technological innovations
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Africa
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In mass media
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Africa
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Press coverage
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History
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21st century
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Author
Bunce, Melanie, 1983-
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Franks, Suzanne
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Paterson, Chris, 1963-
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Editor
Bunce, Melanie, 1983-
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Franks, Suzanne
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Paterson, Chris, 1963-
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Series
Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))
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Communication and society
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: a new Africa's media image? / Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, and Chris Paterson
Part I. Framing Africa. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story" / Mel Bunce ; Media perspectives: in defence of Western journalists in Africa / Michela Wrong ; Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters / Francis B. Nyamnjoh ; Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? A letter of concern to 60 minutes / Howard W. French ; How not to write about writing about Africa / Martin Scott ; Bringing Africa home: reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television / Stijn Joye ; The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK / Olatunji Ogunyemi
Part II. The image makers. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: How do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience? / Toussaint Nothias ; Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa: 30 years on / Zeinab Badawi ; Foreign correspondents in sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture / Paulo Nuno Vicente ; Media perspectives: reflecting on my father's legacy in reporting Africa / Salim Amin ; Media perspectives: we're missing the story: the media's retreat from foreign reporting / Anjan Sundaram ; Instagram as a potential platform for alternative Visual Culture in South Africa / Danielle Becker ; Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back / H. Nanjala Nyabola ; A "new Ghana" in "Rising Africa"? / Rachel Flamenbaum
Part III. Development and humanitarian stories. Media perspectives: is Africa's development story still stuck on aid? / Eliza Anyangwe ; AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic / Ludek Stavinoha ; Media perspectives: a means to an end? Creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa / Heba Aly ; It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals) / Kate Wright ; Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour / Nicklas Poulsen Viki ; Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Village Project / Audrey Ariss, Anya Schiffrin, and Michelle Chahine
Part IV. Politics in the representation of Africa. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC / Vivien Marsh ; Media perspectives: new media and African engagement with the global public sphere / Sean Jacobs ; Shifting power relations, shifting images / Herman Wasserman ; Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram / Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar ; Perceptions of Chinese media's Africa coverage / James Wan ; New imperialisms, old stereotypes / Chris Paterson ; Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local / Noah Tsika.
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Africa's media image in the twenty-first century
ISBN
9781138962323 ((paperback))
1138962325 ((paperback))
9781138962316 ((hardcover))
1138962317 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2015048198
OCLC
953976532
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