Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Bunce, Melanie, 1983-
2. Franks, Suzanne
3. Paterson, Chris, 1963-

Description

1. xvii, 239 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Series statement

1. Communication and society

Uniform title

1. Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. Journalism > Technological innovations
3. Journalists > Africa > Attitudes
4. Mass media > Social aspects > Africa
5. Mass media
6. Press coverage
7. Africa > In mass media
8. Africa > Press coverage > History > 21st century
9. Africa > Foreign public opinion > In mass media
10. Africa

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. Introduction: a new Africa's media image? / Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson -- Framing Africa. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story" / Mel Bunce -- Media perspectives: in defence of western journalists in Africa / Michela Wrong -- Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters / Francis Nyamonjoh -- Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? a letter of concern to 60 minutes / Howard French -- How not to write about writing about Africa / Martin Scott -- Bringing Africa home: reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television / Stijn Joye -- The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK / Ola Ogunyemi -- The image makers. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: How do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience? / Toussaint Nothias -- Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa 30 years on / Zeinab Badawi -- Foreign correspondents in Sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture -- Paulo Nuno Vicente -- Media perspectives: reflecting on my father's legacy in reporting Africa / Salim Amin -- We're missing the story: the media's retreat from foreign reporting / Anjan Sundaram -- Instagram as a potential platform for alternative visual culture in South Africa / Danielle Becker -- Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back / H. Nanjala Nyabola -- A "new Ghana" in "Rising Africa"? / Rachel Flamenbaum -- Development and humanitarian stories. Media perspectives: is Africa's development story still stuck on aid? / Eliza Anyangwe -- AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic / Ludek Stavinoha -- Media perspectives: a means to an end? creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa / Heba Aly -- It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals) / Kate Wright -- Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour / Nikolas Poulsen Viki -- Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Village Project / Audrey Arriss, Anya Schiffrin and Michelle Chahine -- Politics in the representation of Africa. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC / Vivien Marsh -- Media perspectives: new media & African engagement with the global public sphere / Sean Jacobs -- Shifting power relations, shifting images Herman Wasserman -- Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram / Abdullahi Abubakar -- Media Perspectives: Chinese media perceptions on the reporting of Africa / James Wan -- New imperialisms, old stereotypes / Chris Paterson -- Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local / Noah Tsika.

Call number

1. Sc E 16-1116

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Africa's media image in the 21st century : from the "Heart of darkness" to "Africa rising" / edited by Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, and Chris Paterson.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Communication and society
2. Communication and society (Routledge (Firm))

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Added author

1. Bunce, Melanie, 1983- editor.
2. Franks, Suzanne, editor.
3. Paterson, Chris, 1963- editor.

LCCN

1. 2015048198

ISBN

1. 9781138962323 paperback
2. 1138962325 paperback
3. 9781138962316 hardcover
4. 1138962317 hardcover

Research call number

1. Sc E 16-1116