Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies

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Mano, Winston HerausgeberIn. (DE-588)1184307946 (DE-627)1663465029

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9780367689636

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xiv, 286 Seiten

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Routledge international handbooks

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Decoloniality and the push for African media and communication studies: an introduction -- 2 Afrokology of media and communication studies: theorising from the margins -- 3 Frantz Fanon, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies -- 4 Rethinking African strategic communication: towards a new violence -- 5 Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted -- 6 To be or not to be: decolonizing African media/communications -- 7 Communicating the idea of South Africa in the age of decoloniality -- 8 Decolonising media and communication studies: an exploratory survey on global curricula transformation debates -- 9 Africa on demand: the production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting -- 10 The African novel and its global communicative potential: africa's soft power -- 11 Citizen journalism and conflict transformation: exploring netizens' digitized shaping of political crises in Kenya -- 12 Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe -- 13 "Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: social media and the 21st-century slave trade in Libya -- 14 On community radio and African interest broadcasting: the case of Vukani Community Radio (VCR) -- 15 Not just a benevolent bystander: the corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of the South African Broadcasting Corporation -- 16 Health communication in Africa -- 17 The politics of identity, trauma, memory and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's Chappie (2015) -- 18 Nollywood as decoloniality -- 19 Afrokology as a transdisciplinary approach to media and communication studies -- Index.

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This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first.

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 first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today's Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse.

This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.