Coloniality is a notion that has been key in many disciplines for addressing power rela-tions and their embeddedness in continuous colonial hierarchies. This essay contributes to the re-flections on the notion of cosmopolitanism in German academia, focusing on Communication Stud-ies as a starting point. The possibility to develop research at a university in the Global North is usually presented by the hosting countries as a door to productive exchanges among colleagues from differ-ent backgrounds. Nevertheless, many hierarchies and pre-established concepts on knowledge pro-duction produce forms of epistemic silencing and other forms of violence and limits in these ex-changes. The present essay proposes a process of dialogue with decolonial theories to trace roots on the meaning of cosmopolitanism, its borders and possibilities.
{"title":"Towards Cosmopolitanism in German Academia?: Shedding Light on Colonial Underpinnings of Communication Research in a Globalized World","authors":"Camila Nobrega Rabello Alves, Débora Medeiros","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49167","url":null,"abstract":"Coloniality is a notion that has been key in many disciplines for addressing power rela-tions and their embeddedness in continuous colonial hierarchies. This essay contributes to the re-flections on the notion of cosmopolitanism in German academia, focusing on Communication Stud-ies as a starting point. The possibility to develop research at a university in the Global North is usually presented by the hosting countries as a door to productive exchanges among colleagues from differ-ent backgrounds. Nevertheless, many hierarchies and pre-established concepts on knowledge pro-duction produce forms of epistemic silencing and other forms of violence and limits in these ex-changes. The present essay proposes a process of dialogue with decolonial theories to trace roots on the meaning of cosmopolitanism, its borders and possibilities.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84386363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At a time when diversity and de-westernization are current buzz words for injecting social justice into the future of communication studies, we must address how we conceptualize and con-front these concepts in practice. Academic Cosmopolitanism has been proposed as one way forward, but it remains in the trenches of cosmopolitan theory’s difficulty of dealing with diversity in political systems. Simon Fraser University and the Communication University of China’s Global Communi-cation MA Double Degree Program embodies many of the core values of academic cosmopolitanism. Grounded in a transcultural political economy framework however, it embraces some of the kinds of conflicts that cosmopolitanism sets up as barriers. Via autoethnographic accounts from the pro-gram’s first teaching assistant and an alumnae from its first cohort, we explore how the conflicts involved in conceptualizing and confronting diversity are experienced on the ground. We conclude by highlighting the ways in which transcultural political economy enriches discussions on diversity and inform efforts to de-colonize communication studies.
{"title":"A Global Communication M.A. Double Degree Program: Conceptualizing and working through diversity","authors":"Byron Hauck, Joseph Nicolai","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49165","url":null,"abstract":"At a time when diversity and de-westernization are current buzz words for injecting social justice into the future of communication studies, we must address how we conceptualize and con-front these concepts in practice. Academic Cosmopolitanism has been proposed as one way forward, but it remains in the trenches of cosmopolitan theory’s difficulty of dealing with diversity in political systems. Simon Fraser University and the Communication University of China’s Global Communi-cation MA Double Degree Program embodies many of the core values of academic cosmopolitanism. Grounded in a transcultural political economy framework however, it embraces some of the kinds of conflicts that cosmopolitanism sets up as barriers. Via autoethnographic accounts from the pro-gram’s first teaching assistant and an alumnae from its first cohort, we explore how the conflicts involved in conceptualizing and confronting diversity are experienced on the ground. We conclude by highlighting the ways in which transcultural political economy enriches discussions on diversity and inform efforts to de-colonize communication studies.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87613062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Author information: Hanan Badr is affiliated at Cairo University and the Gulf University for Sciences and Technology. Her work focuses on journalism, inequalities, and comparative media systems. Arab Uprisings and media have been a focus of her research. Adopting a critical lens, she seeks to understand how political and digital transformations change journalism and media systems worldwide. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin and the Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the ICA interest group Activism, Communication and Social Change. For more information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3372-211X Email: badr.h@gust.edu.kw
{"title":"Towards Cosmopolitan Media and Communication Studies: Bringing diverse epistemic perspectives into the field","authors":"Hanan A Badr, S. Ganter","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49164","url":null,"abstract":"Author information: Hanan Badr is affiliated at Cairo University and the Gulf University for Sciences and Technology. Her work focuses on journalism, inequalities, and comparative media systems. Arab Uprisings and media have been a focus of her research. Adopting a critical lens, she seeks to understand how political and digital transformations change journalism and media systems worldwide. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin and the Orient-Institut Beirut, Max Weber Foundation. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the ICA interest group Activism, Communication and Social Change. For more information: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3372-211X Email: badr.h@gust.edu.kw","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73991072","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has been widely covered on major U.S. media. “Chinese Virus” or “Wuhan Virus” became media buzz words especially at the beginning stage of the outbreak, which was feared to fuel anti-Asian hatred both in the U.S. and worldwide. This study examines the news coverage about COVID-19 in relation to Asians, mainly Chinese and China, on YouTube channels of major U.S. media outlets, and explores the relationship between the media framing and anti-Asian sentiments embedded in the comments beneath the news video. By content analyzing 50 news videos covering COVID-19 and Asians from 5 U.S. media organizations and 5000 comments, the findings suggest that attribution of responsibility and conflict are the most frequently used frames by the news reporting. The results also reveal that suspicion of conspiracy, rather than blaming, emerged as the most frequent theme embedded in hateful comments. One promising finding is that the frequency of hateful comments is significantly lower than that of non-hateful comments across all news frame categories.
{"title":"Do YouTubers Hate Asians?: An Analysis of YouTube Users’ Anti-Asian Hatred on Major U.S. News Channels during the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"Yang Yu, Chanapa Noonark, Dong-Wha Chung","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49166","url":null,"abstract":"The outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has been widely covered on major U.S. media. “Chinese Virus” or “Wuhan Virus” became media buzz words especially at the beginning stage of the outbreak, which was feared to fuel anti-Asian hatred both in the U.S. and worldwide. This study examines the news coverage about COVID-19 in relation to Asians, mainly Chinese and China, on YouTube channels of major U.S. media outlets, and explores the relationship between the media framing and anti-Asian sentiments embedded in the comments beneath the news video. By content analyzing 50 news videos covering COVID-19 and Asians from 5 U.S. media organizations and 5000 comments, the findings suggest that attribution of responsibility and conflict are the most frequently used frames by the news reporting. The results also reveal that suspicion of conspiracy, rather than blaming, emerged as the most frequent theme embedded in hateful comments. One promising finding is that the frequency of hateful comments is significantly lower than that of non-hateful comments across all news frame categories.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"99 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80911587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Voicing systematically marginalised communities is a problem historically posed in the media and communications field, in terms of de-Westernisation and, more radically, cosmopolitan-ism. Such a problem has been magnified in the COVID-19 pandemic, with narratives from systemat-ically devoiced communities – ranging from migrants to informal workers, ethnic minorities, eco-nomically poor people, and survivors of domestic violence – remaining untold. Recognising the need for a conceptual apparatus to voice the silenced narratives of the pandemic, this paper conducts two tasks: first, it crafts a theoretical apparatus of three devices (data at the margins; data poverty; and the datafication of anti-poverty programmes) to conceptualise COVID-19 stories from the margins. Second, it applies such a theoretical apparatus to a map of five problems (counting in the pandemic; new inequalities and vulnerabilities; datafied social protection; data injustices; solidarity and re-sistance from below) opened by discussion on COVID-19 from the margins. By doing so it offers a conceptual lens responding to the call for cosmopolitanism in media and communications, applying it to the study of COVID-19 narrations from the globe.
{"title":"COVID-19 from the Margins: Crafting a (Cosmopolitan) Theory","authors":"S. Masiero, S. Milan, Emiliano Treré","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49163","url":null,"abstract":"Voicing systematically marginalised communities is a problem historically posed in the media and communications field, in terms of de-Westernisation and, more radically, cosmopolitan-ism. Such a problem has been magnified in the COVID-19 pandemic, with narratives from systemat-ically devoiced communities – ranging from migrants to informal workers, ethnic minorities, eco-nomically poor people, and survivors of domestic violence – remaining untold. Recognising the need for a conceptual apparatus to voice the silenced narratives of the pandemic, this paper conducts two tasks: first, it crafts a theoretical apparatus of three devices (data at the margins; data poverty; and the datafication of anti-poverty programmes) to conceptualise COVID-19 stories from the margins. Second, it applies such a theoretical apparatus to a map of five problems (counting in the pandemic; new inequalities and vulnerabilities; datafied social protection; data injustices; solidarity and re-sistance from below) opened by discussion on COVID-19 from the margins. By doing so it offers a conceptual lens responding to the call for cosmopolitanism in media and communications, applying it to the study of COVID-19 narrations from the globe.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82126949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article reflects experiences and results from an environmental education and com-munication strategy (EECS) as part of a Lao-German development project of Gesellschaft fur Inter-nationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) over a 10-year period from 2011 to 2021. The article is divided into four parts. First, an overview of the project context and the media landscape in Laos is provided. Next, the conceptual framework of the communication strategy at the GIZ policy and project man-agement level is presented. Subsequently, major features of the wide variety of environmental edu-cation and communication media productions and educational materials are highlighted. Another chapter summarizes the results of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) surveys related to envi-ronmental awareness. Finally, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and impact assessment results con-clude lessons that can be learned from the project’s communication strategy.
{"title":"Communicating the Environment in Laos","authors":"M. Oepen","doi":"10.22032/DBT.49168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.49168","url":null,"abstract":"This article reflects experiences and results from an environmental education and com-munication strategy (EECS) as part of a Lao-German development project of Gesellschaft fur Inter-nationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) over a 10-year period from 2011 to 2021. The article is divided into four parts. First, an overview of the project context and the media landscape in Laos is provided. Next, the conceptual framework of the communication strategy at the GIZ policy and project man-agement level is presented. Subsequently, major features of the wide variety of environmental edu-cation and communication media productions and educational materials are highlighted. Another chapter summarizes the results of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) surveys related to envi-ronmental awareness. Finally, monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and impact assessment results con-clude lessons that can be learned from the project’s communication strategy.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86397023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines narrative discourses of the Syrian loyalist TV channel Sama TV in the light of Syria’s current armed conflict, demography, and regional geopolitics. The focus is on the tense relationship between secularism and religious representations on the channel. Compared to state television, private channel Sama TV has more room for maneuver to embrace a new form of religious presence that challenges the ideological secularism of the Syrian nation state. The national “mythscapes” of Syria, simultaneously a secular and (Sunni) Muslim nation, characterized by a certain ambiguity, are consequently reinforced.
{"title":"Between Sect and Secularism: the Mediated Ambiguities of the Syrian Nation State","authors":"E. Galal, Zenia Yonus","doi":"10.22032/DBT.47739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.47739","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines narrative discourses of the Syrian loyalist TV channel Sama TV in the light of Syria’s current armed conflict, demography, and regional geopolitics. The focus is on the tense relationship between secularism and religious representations on the channel. Compared to state television, private channel Sama TV has more room for maneuver to embrace a new form of religious presence that challenges the ideological secularism of the Syrian nation state. The national “mythscapes” of Syria, simultaneously a secular and (Sunni) Muslim nation, characterized by a certain ambiguity, are consequently reinforced.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72790899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
China imposed a new National Security Law on its Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong in mid-2020. The deployment of this legal weapon, combined with other actions of local authorities that have grown noticeably more irritable and vindictive, means that Hong Kong media no longer enjoy the freedom from government restrictions that they had been accustomed to. Hong Kong has thus joined the ranks of the many societies with media environments that are semifree and semi-closed. These societies’ experiences indicate that arrests and bans, while attracting the most attention, are not what inflict the most damage in the long run. As alarming as the on-going legal actions are, citizens’ access to information and ideas is more likely to be restricted by less spectacular and coercive means, including economic carrots and sticks that encourage a culture of self-censorship. Such an environment requires new mindsets and skillsets among journalists.
{"title":"What Global Censorship Studies Tell us About Hong Kong’s Media Future","authors":"Cherian George","doi":"10.22032/DBT.47740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.47740","url":null,"abstract":"China imposed a new National Security Law on its Special Administrative Region (SAR) of Hong Kong in mid-2020. The deployment of this legal weapon, combined with other actions of local authorities that have grown noticeably more irritable and vindictive, means that Hong Kong media no longer enjoy the freedom from government restrictions that they had been accustomed to. Hong Kong has thus joined the ranks of the many societies with media environments that are semifree and semi-closed. These societies’ experiences indicate that arrests and bans, while attracting the most attention, are not what inflict the most damage in the long run. As alarming as the on-going legal actions are, citizens’ access to information and ideas is more likely to be restricted by less spectacular and coercive means, including economic carrots and sticks that encourage a culture of self-censorship. Such an environment requires new mindsets and skillsets among journalists.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78079785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Der Volkermord in der Kolonie Deutsch-Sudwestafrika stellt bislang gultiges kulturelles Wissen uber die deutsche und die namibische Vergangenheit in Frage – was vor allem in den aktuellen Debatten um Kolonialdenkmaler und Strasennamen in beiden Landern zum Ausdruck kommt. Eingerahmt durch die erste deutsche Entschuldigung 2004 und die Klage der betroffenen Gruppen 2017 untersucht diese Arbeit die Produktion des Volkermordes im deutschen und namibischen kulturellen Gedachtnis durch journalistische Berichterstattung. Dabei soll beantwortet werden, anhand welcher diskursiven Regeln Journalismus den Volkermord in der verwobenen Erinnerungskultur beider Lander konstruiert. Mit einer kategoriengeleiteten qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse werden 142 Artikel in deutschen und namibischen Zeitungen analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Journalismus dieses Thema weiterhin oft als historisches oder exotisches Interessensthema konstruiert. Dabei werden haufig koloniale Wissenshorizonte und Vorstellungen transportiert, selbst enn Kolonialismus fast ausnahmslos kritisch betrachtet wird. Die eigene Identitat wird dabei durch Kontrast zum abnormalen Volkermord gestarkt und so das Ereignis von der kollektiven Selbstkonstruktion ausgeklammert. Gleichzeitig wird eine transnationale Verstrickung des Diskurses in der prominenten Sprecherschaft von deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftler*innen sichtbar, die den Erinnerungsdiskurs masgeblich pragen.
{"title":"(Post-)Koloniale Erinnerungen in der Presse: der Völkermord in Deutsch-Südwestafrika in deutschen und namibischen Zeitungen","authors":"Christina Haritos","doi":"10.22032/DBT.47744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.47744","url":null,"abstract":"Der Volkermord in der Kolonie Deutsch-Sudwestafrika stellt bislang gultiges kulturelles Wissen uber die deutsche und die namibische Vergangenheit in Frage – was vor allem in den aktuellen Debatten um Kolonialdenkmaler und Strasennamen in beiden Landern zum Ausdruck kommt. Eingerahmt durch die erste deutsche Entschuldigung 2004 und die Klage der betroffenen Gruppen 2017 untersucht diese Arbeit die Produktion des Volkermordes im deutschen und namibischen kulturellen Gedachtnis durch journalistische Berichterstattung. Dabei soll beantwortet werden, anhand welcher diskursiven Regeln Journalismus den Volkermord in der verwobenen Erinnerungskultur beider Lander konstruiert. Mit einer kategoriengeleiteten qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse werden 142 Artikel in deutschen und namibischen Zeitungen analysiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Journalismus dieses Thema weiterhin oft als historisches oder exotisches Interessensthema konstruiert. Dabei werden haufig koloniale Wissenshorizonte und Vorstellungen transportiert, selbst enn Kolonialismus fast ausnahmslos kritisch betrachtet wird. Die eigene Identitat wird dabei durch Kontrast zum abnormalen Volkermord gestarkt und so das Ereignis von der kollektiven Selbstkonstruktion ausgeklammert. Gleichzeitig wird eine transnationale Verstrickung des Diskurses in der prominenten Sprecherschaft von deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftler*innen sichtbar, die den Erinnerungsdiskurs masgeblich pragen.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84521079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The importance of journalism’s role in society is beyond debate. Particularly in so-called fragile states, the social responsibility of media and journalism cannot be denied. Journalism education must account for the high level of skills required by journalists, and the ‘mediation’ function of journalists in fragile states should be conceptualised. Responding to dynamic developments in the Afghan media landscape and the resulting need for high-quality journalism education, this article proposes a reform model for journalism education on a tertiary level in Afghanistan. Based on research as well as a needs and feasibility assessment following the participatory action research (PAR) approach, target models and an implementation plan for educational reform were developed. This provides a potential blueprint for reforms in journalism education in fragile states, which considers social and cultural values and interests in the local context while drawing on the perspective of the outsider. This article presents the results of a project entitled “Professionalisation of Journalism Education on a Tertiary Level in Afghanistan”, which resulted in a manual.
{"title":"Reforming Journalism Education on a Tertiary Level in Afghanistan: recommendations for a Dual Education Model","authors":"Kefajatullah Hamidi, Alessandra Brüchner","doi":"10.22032/DBT.47741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22032/DBT.47741","url":null,"abstract":"The importance of journalism’s role in society is beyond debate. Particularly in so-called fragile states, the social responsibility of media and journalism cannot be denied. Journalism education must account for the high level of skills required by journalists, and the ‘mediation’ function of journalists in fragile states should be conceptualised. Responding to dynamic developments in the Afghan media landscape and the resulting need for high-quality journalism education, this article proposes a reform model for journalism education on a tertiary level in Afghanistan. Based on research as well as a needs and feasibility assessment following the participatory action research (PAR) approach, target models and an implementation plan for educational reform were developed. This provides a potential blueprint for reforms in journalism education in fragile states, which considers social and cultural values and interests in the local context while drawing on the perspective of the outsider. This article presents the results of a project entitled “Professionalisation of Journalism Education on a Tertiary Level in Afghanistan”, which resulted in a manual.","PeriodicalId":29900,"journal":{"name":"Global Media Journal-Canadian Edition","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81465046","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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