Press Freedom and Communication in Africa

by Festus Eribo
Press Freedom and Communication in Africa
Author: Festus Eribo
Publisher: Africa World Press
Total Pages: 386
Release: 1997
Genre: Freedom of the press
ISBN: 9780865435513
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Recent years have seen considerable growth in the media in Africa with increases in the number of newspapers and radio and television stations. At the same time there has been an increase in the number of arrests of journalists and broadcasters and various forms of censorship have been introduced. The essays in this volume examine press censorship, past and present, and bring a fresh perspective to the position of the mass media in the African continent.

Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa

by Bruce Mutsvairo
Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa
Author: Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2018-02-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319620576
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This edited collection is a cutting-edge volume that reframes political communication from an African perspective. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, the collection gives space to previously understudied regions of sub-Saharan Africa and challenges the over-reliance of western scholarship on political communication on the continent.

The Quest for Press Freedom

by Meseret Chekol Reta
The Quest for Press Freedom
Author: Meseret Chekol Reta
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2013-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0761860029
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The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media. It examines the building of a modern media institution over the last one hundred years of its existence, and the restrictions against its freedoms. The significance of this work lies in its originality and that it addresses these two issues across three distinct epochs: the monarchy era, the Marxist military regime, and the current ethnic federalist regime. The book examines the political and social situations in each of these periods, and analyzes the effects they had on the media. The book also provides examples of how journalists working for the government-run media have a strong desire to exercise their constitutional right to press freedom. In the final chapter, Reta offers recommendations for a more viable media system in Ethiopia.

Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Louise M. Bourgault
Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Louise M. Bourgault
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1995-06-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780253209382
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Bourgault considers the political shifts affecting Africa in the 1990s and offers a radical blueprint for more responsive and informative media in the sub-Saharan area.

Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism

by Coe, Peter
Media Freedom in the Age of Citizen Journalism
Author: Coe, Peter
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-12-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1800371268
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This timely book explores how the internet and social media have permanently altered the media landscape, enabling new actors to enter the marketplace, and changing the way that news is generated, published and consumed. It examines the importance of citizen journalists, whose newsgathering and publication activities have made them crucial to public discourse and central actors in the communication revolution. Investigating how the internet and social media have enabled citizen journalism to flourish, and what this means for the traditional institutional press, the public sphere, and media freedom, the book demonstrates how communication and legal theory are applied in practice.

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa

by Festus Eribo
Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa
Author: Festus Eribo
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739103777
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Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by African scholars, this volume maps out the changing media ecology of Cameroon and provides practical survey methods for communication research. The work details the impact mass public communication has had on the empowerment of Cameroon's 15 million people and the development of grassroots participatory democracy.

New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa

by Olorunnisola, Anthony A.
New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa
Author: Olorunnisola, Anthony A.
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-06-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466641983
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While transitioning from autocracy to democracy, media in Africa has always played an important role in democratic and non-democratic states; focusing on politicians, diplomats, activists, and others who work towards political transformations. New Media Influence on Social and Political Change in Africa addresses the development of new mass media and communication tools and its influence on social and political change. While analyzing democratic transitions and cultures with a theoretical perspective, this book also presents case studies and national experiences for media, new media, and democracy scholars and practitioners.

Media and Identity in Africa

by John Middleton
Media and Identity in Africa
Author: John Middleton
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2010-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 025322201X
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What is the role of the media in Africa? How do they work? How do they interact with global media? How do they reflect and express local culture? Incorporating both African and international perspectives, Media and Identity in Africa demonstrates how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question, or modify the unequal power relations between Africa and the rest of the world. Discussions about the construction of old and new social entities which are defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behavior, language, and religion dominate these new assessments of communications media in Africa. This volume addresses the tensions between the global and the local that have inspired creative control and use of traditional and modern forms of media.