Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

ISBN-13: 9780367738839 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 136 str.

Chris Paterson

Opis

Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of a relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Ecquid Novi: African Journalism St

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Journalism and social media in the African context Chris Paterson  Research Reports  2. Challenging hegemonic media practices: Of ‘alternative’ media and Nigeria's democracy Motilola Olufenwa Akinfemisoye  3. Poke me, I'm a journalist: The impact of Facebook and Twitter on newsroom routines and cultures at two South African weeklies Marenet Jordaan  4. The Nairobi Hub: Emerging patterns of how foreign correspondents frame citizen journalists and social media Paulo Nuno Vicente  5. Media representations of technology in Egypt's 2011 pro-democracy protests Melissa Loudon and B. Theo Mazumdar  6. A forgotten tweet: Somalia and social media Skye Cooley and Amy Jones  7. A complicated but symbiotic affair: The relationship between mainstream media and social media in the coverage of social protests in southern Africa Admire Mare  Case studies from Southern Africa  8. Introduction to the section Chris Paterson  9. Social media and journalism: The case of Swaziland Richard Charles Rooney  10. Participatory journalism in Mozambique Chris Paterson and Simone Doctors  11. Social media and the politics of ethnicity in Zimbabwe Shepherd Mpofu  Comment  12 ‘It's struck a chord we have never managed to strike’: Frames, perspectives and remediation strategies in the international news coverage of Kony2012 Toussaint Nothias

O autorze

Chris Paterson is a senior lecturer and leader of the MA in International Communication at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He has published extensively on news agencies, international journalism and communication in Africa.