عنوان

Media and identity in Africa /

0748635211

6612136537

9780748635214

9786612136535

074863522X

9780748635221

b784788

Media and identity in Africa /

[Book]

edited by Kimani Njogu and John Middleton.

Edinburgh :

Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute,

©2009.

1 online resource (xvii, 333 pages) :

illustrations

International African seminars ;

new ser. 7

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PROLOGUE; PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY; 1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA; 2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA; 3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW; 4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR?; 5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA'S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON; 6 John Kiarie Wa'Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES.

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Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates.

MIL

JSTOR

213653

22573/cttk12zj

Media and identity in Africa.

074863522X

Mass media-- Africa.

Mass media-- Political aspects-- Africa.

Mass media-- Social aspects-- Africa.

Mass media-- Political aspects.

Mass media-- Social aspects.

Mass media.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Media Studies.

Africa.

7

GRB

SOC-- 052000

SOC052000

Middleton, John,1921-2009

Njogu, Kimani

20201206225147.0

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