Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

ISBN-13: 9781138574779 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 286 str.

Winston Mano; Viola C. Milton

Opis

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication, building a critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

Spis treści

1. Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies: an introduction (Winston Mano and viola c. milton); 2. Afrokology of media and communication studies: theorising from the margins (Winston Mano and viola c. milton); 3. Frantz Fanon, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and African media and communication studies (Pier Paolo Frassinelli); 4. Rethinking African strategic communication: towards a new violence (Colin Chasi); 5. Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted (Elnerine WJ Gree); 6. To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications (Kehbuma Langmia); 7. Communicating the idea of South Africa in the age of decoloniality (Blessed Ngwenya); 8. Decolonising media and communication studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula transformation debates (Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi); 9. Africa on demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting (Rachel Lara van der Merwe); 10. The African novel and its global communicative potential: africa’s soft power (Mary-Jean Nleya); 11. Citizen journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens’ digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya (Toyin Ajao); 12. Ghetto ‘wall-standing’: counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe (Hugh Mangeya); 13. "Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: social media and the 21st-century slave trade in Libya (Ashley Lewis, Shamilla Amulega, and Kehbuma Langmia); 14. On community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani Community Radio (VCR) (Siyasanga M. Tyali); 15. Not just a benevolent bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (Kate Skinner); 16. Health communication in Africa (Elizabeth Lubinga and Karabo Sitto); 17. The politics of identity, trauma, memory and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie (2015) (Beschara Karam); 18. Nollywood as decoloniality (Ikechukwu Obiaya); 19. Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and communication studies (viola c. milton and Winston Mano)