Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies / edited by Winston Mano and Viola C. Milton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mano, Winston, editor.

Milton, Viola C., editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks.

Routledge International Handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Africa--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages : illustrations)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

The Turn Towards Doing African Media and Communication Studies in the Pluriverse / Winston Mano and viola c. milton

Afrokology: Theorising African Media and Communication Studies / Winston Mano and viola c. milton

Return to the source: Frantz Fanon, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies / Pier Paolo Frassinelli

Rethinking African Strategic Communication: Towards a new violence /

Colin Chasi

Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted / Elnerine Greeff

To be or not to be: Decolonising African Media/Communications / Kehbuma Langmia

Communicating the idea of South Africa / Blessed Ngwenya

Decolonising communication and media studies: An exploratory reading of views on curricula from around the world / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi

Africa on demand:The production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting / Rachel Lara Watson

The African novel as a global form of communication: African writers on the world stage

Africa's soft power / Mary-Jean Nleya

Citizen Journalism and Conflict transformation in Africa: Kenyan Netizen' digitized shaping of Kenya's political crises / Toyin Ajao

Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe / Hugh Mangeya

"Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: Social Media and 21 century Slave Trade in Libya / Kehbuma Langmia; Ashley Lewis & Shamilla Amulega

The making of an African Media Institution: On Memory and the Airwaves /

Siyasanga M. Tyali

Not just benevolent bystanders: The corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of public service broadcasting in South Africa / Kate Skinner

Health Communication in Africa / Elizabeth Lubinga

The politics of identity, trauma, memory, and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's "Chappie" (2015) / Beschara Karam

Nollywood as Decoloniality / Ikechukwu Obiaya

Afrokology as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Media and Communication Studies / viola c. milton and Winston Mano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-27320-5

1-351-27318-3

9781351273206

OCLC:

1193559337