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So, who is responsible? A framing analysis of newspaper coverage of electoral violence in Zimbabwe 那么,谁该对此负责呢?津巴布韦选举暴力新闻报道的框架分析
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00011_1
Allen Munoriyarwa
This study examines how the 2008 election violence was framed in three mainstream Zimbabwean weekly newspapers – The Sunday Mail, The Independent and The Zimbabwean. It was noted that four frames – the victim, justice and human rights, trivialization and attribution of responsibility frames dominated the coverage of electoral violence in these three newspapers. The dominance of the trivializing frame in The Sunday Mail privileged the ruling party’s (Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front; ZANU PF) interpretation of electoral violence as inconsequential to the electoral process. Simultaneously, the prevalence of the victim, justice and human rights frames in The Independent and The Zimbabwean newspapers signifies the private media’s obsession with ZANU PF’s alleged electoral malpractices and situates these alleged transgressions within a broad global social justice and human rights trajectory to cultivate the West’s sympathy with the ‘victimised’ opposition.
这项研究考察了津巴布韦三家主流周报——《星期日邮报》、《独立报》和《津巴布韦人报》——是如何塑造2008年选举暴力的。有人指出,四种框架- -受害者、正义和人权、轻视和责任归属框架- -主导了这三份报纸对选举暴力的报道。《星期日邮报》的琐碎框架占据了主导地位,执政党(津巴布韦非洲民族联盟爱国阵线;非洲民族联盟-爱国阵线)将选举暴力解释为对选举过程无关紧要。与此同时,《独立报》和《津巴布韦报》上普遍存在的受害者、正义和人权框架表明,私人媒体痴迷于非洲民族联盟爱国阵线所谓的选举舞弊行为,并将这些所谓的违法行为置于广泛的全球社会正义和人权轨迹中,以培养西方对“受害者”反对派的同情。
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引用次数: 3
China colonizing Africa narrative on social media: An issue activation and response perspective 社交媒体上的中国殖民非洲叙事:一个议题激活与回应的视角
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00009_1
Simon Matingwina
The issue of ‘China colonizing Africa’ received significant attention in both traditional and social media in the periods before, during and after the Forum on China Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 2018 meeting. This study traces these discourses on YouTube, which is one of the social media platforms widely used to raise awareness and also influence public opinion on various issues. Thematic and content analysis are used to identify the dominant themes discussed in the selected videos and also to identify the sentiments expressed by viewers in the comments posted. The issue activation and response model is used to create meaning from the data. The study finds that the themes and the sentiments reflect the dominance of pessimistic and optimistic perspectives on the Africa–China relationship. Furthermore, the study shows that the themes discussed have not offered new perspectives but instead the discussions have repackaged old narratives as part of agenda building efforts by the protagonists. The study, therefore argues that social media have become important platforms for activation of issues on the Africa–China relationship, hence the persistence of these old narratives is attributed to lack of effective responses to issues on social media by both African countries and Chinese officials.
在2018年中非合作论坛会议前后,“中国殖民非洲”问题在传统媒体和社交媒体上都受到了广泛关注。本研究追踪了YouTube上的这些话语,YouTube是一个广泛用于提高意识和影响各种问题的公众舆论的社交媒体平台之一。主题和内容分析用于确定所选视频中讨论的主要主题,也用于确定观众在评论中表达的情绪。问题激活和响应模型用于从数据中创建意义。研究发现,主题和情绪反映出对非中关系的悲观和乐观观点占主导地位。此外,研究表明,讨论的主题并没有提供新的视角,而是将旧的叙述重新包装,作为主角议程建设努力的一部分。因此,该研究认为,社交媒体已成为激活非中关系问题的重要平台,因此,这些旧叙述的持续存在可归因于非洲国家和中国官员在社交媒体上缺乏对问题的有效回应。
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引用次数: 2
The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai, Eddah M. Mutua, Alberto Gonzalez and Anke Wolbert (eds) (2018) Wangari Maathai, Eddah M. Mutua, Alberto Gonzalez和Anke Wolbert的修辞遗产(编)(2018)
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00013_5
S. Ogbu
Review of: The Rhetorical Legacy of Wangari Maathai, Eddah M. Mutua, Alberto Gonzalez and Anke Wolbert (eds) (2018)Lanham: Lexington Books, 221 pp.,ISBN 978-1-49857-112-8, h/bk, $83.07
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引用次数: 1
Reppin’ the nation, reppin’ themselves: Nation branding and personal branding in Kenya’s music video industry 重塑国家,重塑自己:肯尼亚音乐视频行业的国家品牌和个人品牌
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00012_1
Brian Ekdale
This article explores the entanglement of nation branding and personal branding in the Kenyan music video industry. Although self-commodification and labouring on behalf of the nation are both indicative of neo-liberal governmentality, Kenyan music video directors build personal brands to wrestle creative control from their clients during the production process and they invoke their experiences representing Kenya abroad to elevate their professional status at home. Thus, branding in the Kenyan music video industry illustrates the complexities and contradictions of neo-liberal governmentality in global cultural production.
这篇文章探讨了肯尼亚音乐视频产业中国家品牌和个人品牌的纠缠。虽然自我商品化和为国家工作都是新自由主义治理的标志,但肯尼亚音乐录影带导演建立个人品牌,在制作过程中与客户争夺创意控制权,他们利用在国外代表肯尼亚的经验来提升自己在国内的专业地位。因此,肯尼亚音乐录影带产业的品牌化说明了全球文化生产中新自由主义治理的复杂性和矛盾性。
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引用次数: 2
The portrayal of victims of intimate femicide in the South African media 南非媒体对亲密女性谋杀受害者的描述
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00010_1
Amanda Spies
This article reflects on the murders of Reeva Steenkamp (2013), Jayde Panayiotou (2015), Susan Rhode (2016) and Karabo Mokoena (2017) and questions how victims of intimate femicide are portrayed in the South African media. Media reporting on intimate femicide clearly illustrates how the murder of women by their intimate partners, are framed as isolated incidents rather than a systemic problem situated within a social context of male dominance. It is therefore increasingly important to understand how the media portrays victimhood and violence. This article explores how the murder of women by their partners are rarely classified as femicide, and how the media’s portrayal of these murders fails to convey the systemic nature of violence against women that also entrenches racial and class-based oppression by seemingly valuing some lives more than others. The focus is on the power of the media to obscure the nature of intimate partner violence, which entrenches a notion of ideal victimhood. In conclusion, the South African government’s response to this form of violence is explored, and the need for responsible reporting is called for in reporting on cases of intimate femicide.
本文反思了Reeva Steenkamp(2013年)、Jayde Panayiotou(2015年)、Susan Rhode(2016年)和Karabo Mokoena(2017年)的谋杀案,并质疑南非媒体如何描绘亲密女性谋杀的受害者。媒体关于亲密杀害妇女的报道清楚地表明,妇女被其亲密伴侣谋杀是如何被视为孤立事件,而不是在男性占主导地位的社会背景下形成的系统问题。因此,了解媒体如何描绘受害者和暴力变得越来越重要。这篇文章探讨了为什么被伴侣谋杀的女性很少被归类为杀害女性,以及媒体对这些谋杀的描述如何未能传达针对女性的暴力行为的系统性本质,这种暴力行为似乎比其他人更重视某些生命,从而巩固了种族和阶级压迫。重点是媒体掩盖亲密伴侣暴力本质的力量,这种暴力使理想的受害者观念根深蒂固。最后,探讨了南非政府对这种形式的暴力的反应,并呼吁在报道亲密杀害妇女案件时需要负责任的报道。
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引用次数: 8
A case of double standards? Audience attitudes to professional norms on local and English language radio news programmes in Ghana 双重标准?加纳当地和英语广播新闻节目的听众对专业规范的态度
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00008_1
A. Gadzekpo, A. A. Yeboah-Banin, S. Akrofi-Quarcoo
The proliferation of radio stations across Africa has engendered an increase in local language radio stations and fuelled culturally-rooted practices of news delivery considered by many media professionals as sub-standard. This article explores the reception practices of multi-lingual audiences in Ghana, focusing on their views on the different norms and approaches of local language and English language radio newscasts. Using data from a convenience sample of 1000 radio listeners in five Ghanaian cosmopolitan cities the study finds that audiences prefer more performative modes of news delivery on their local language stations. It was also evident that radio audiences are discerning and make distinctions between what is acceptable on local language versus English language radio. These results call for a reconsideration of western-influenced standards of news delivery and the development of professional standards more accommodating of the inflections of culture.
非洲各地广播电台的激增导致了当地语言广播电台的增加,并助长了许多媒体专业人员认为不合格的根植于文化的新闻传递做法。本文探讨了加纳多语种听众的接受实践,重点关注他们对当地语言和英语广播新闻节目的不同规范和方法的看法。研究使用了来自加纳5个国际大都市的1000名广播听众的方便样本数据,发现听众更喜欢当地语言电台更具表演性的新闻传递模式。同样明显的是,广播听众的眼光很敏锐,他们会区分什么是本地语言广播,什么是英语广播。这些结果要求重新考虑受西方影响的新闻发布标准,并制定更能适应文化变化的专业标准。
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引用次数: 7
ICTs as Juju: African inspiration for understanding the compositeness of being human through digital technologies 信息通信技术作为Juju:通过数字技术理解人类的复合性的非洲灵感
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00001_1
F. Nyamnjoh
In this article, I liken information and communication technologies (ICTs) or digital technologies to what we in West and Central Africa have the habit of referring to as Juju. I invite as scholars of the digital humanities to see in the region’s belief in incompleteness and the compositeness of being human, as well as in the capacity to be present everywhere at the same time an indication that we have much to learn from the past on how best to understand and harness current purportedly innovative advances in ICTs. The idea of digital technologies making it possible for humans and things to be present even in their absence and absent even in their presence is not that dissimilar to the belief in what is often labelled and dismissed as witchcraft and magic that lends itself to a world of infinite possibilities – a world of presence in simultaneous multiplicities and eternal powers to redefine reality. The article argues in favour of incompleteness as a normal way of being. It challenges students of humanity to envisage a relationship between humans and digital technologies that is founded less on dichotomies and binary oppositions, nor on zero-sum games of conquest and superiority. If humans are present in things and things in humans, thanks to the interconnections, the flexibility and fluidity of being that come with recognition of and provision for incompleteness, it is important to see things and humans not only as intricately entangled, but also as open-ended composites.
在这篇文章中,我将资讯与通讯科技(ict)或数位科技比作我们在西非和中非习惯称为Juju的东西。作为数字人文学科的学者,我希望看到,该地区对人类的不完整性和复合性的信念,以及同时存在于任何地方的能力,表明我们在如何最好地理解和利用当前据称是创新的信息通信技术进步方面,有很多东西需要向过去学习。数字技术使人类和事物即使不存在也能在场,甚至在它们存在时也能不存在,这与经常被贴上标签并被视为巫术和魔法的信仰没有什么不同,巫术和魔法使自己成为一个无限可能性的世界——一个同时存在的多重世界和重新定义现实的永恒力量。这篇文章认为不完整是一种正常的存在方式。它挑战人类的学生去设想一种人类与数字技术之间的关系,这种关系不是建立在二分法和二元对立之上的,也不是建立在征服和优势的零和游戏之上的。如果人存在于物中,物也存在于人中,那么由于相互联系,由于对不完整性的认识和准备而产生的存在的灵活性和流动性,重要的是要看到事物和人不仅错综复杂地纠缠在一起,而且是开放式的组合物。
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引用次数: 10
Preserving lions and culture: Conflicting standards of human–wildlife conflict 保护狮子与文化:人类与野生动物冲突的冲突标准
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00005_1
Allison Hahn
Conservation biologists predict that human–wildlife conflicts will increase in the near future as climate change forces the migration of both human and animal populations in search of increasingly scarce resources. These conflicts often capture international attention pitting wildlife against human communities, which are framed as savage hunters or uncaring consumerists. This framing often presumes that wildlife killing is optional, a sport or an outdated cultural activity. And while it may at times be all three, rural and traditional communities also argue that at times it is necessary to kill wildlife to save their children, communities and wildlife. This article explores one instance of such clash between human and wildlife communities, when in 2012 Maasai herders in southern Kenya were accused of illegally hunting and killing lions. Through an examination of multiple media sources, I ask how these events were framed, in what ways were the Maasai community’s traditions and perspective reported, and how did international stakeholders construct value criteria from which they argued for the protection of wildlife and against the protection of indigenous communities. Through this study, I aim to better understand the nuances of human–wildlife conservation and the differing ways that events are understood in local and international reporting.
自然保护生物学家预测,随着气候变化迫使人类和动物迁徙,寻找日益稀缺的资源,人类与野生动物的冲突将在不久的将来增加。这些冲突经常引起国际社会的关注,使野生动物与人类社区发生冲突,人类社区被视为野蛮的猎人或冷漠的消费主义者。这种框架通常假定野生动物捕杀是可选的,是一项运动或一种过时的文化活动。虽然有时三者都有,但农村和传统社区也认为,有时为了拯救他们的孩子、社区和野生动物,有必要杀死野生动物。这篇文章探讨了人类和野生动物群体之间冲突的一个例子,2012年,肯尼亚南部的马赛族牧民被指控非法猎杀狮子。通过对多种媒体来源的研究,我想知道这些事件是如何形成的,马赛社区的传统和观点是如何报道的,以及国际利益相关者是如何构建价值标准的,以此来支持保护野生动物,反对保护土著社区。通过这项研究,我的目的是更好地了解人类与野生动物保护的细微差别,以及当地和国际报道中对事件的不同理解方式。
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International and African media’s representation of African Debt to China: From stereotype to solution with constructive journalism 国际和非洲媒体对非洲对华债务的表述:从刻板印象到建设性新闻解决方案
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00004_1
Zhang Yanqiu, Luu Mwiinga Machila
Constructive journalism justifies its existence by an orientation towards solutions to vexing social issues. The central idea of this article is to discuss why constructive journalism could be an important approach for African journalistic practice. The research analyses African and international media reports on the China–Africa debt issue as a case study. It also discusses how the debt issue is depicted in online articles and reports from a content illustration of western, African and Chinese online media pools. Arguably so, there is a strong assumption that western and African media share more similarities than differences in representing Africa’s debt to China compared to their Chinese counterparts investigated in the study. In the framework of finding solutions and offering alternative journalistic perspectives, the study brings to light the fact that constructive journalism approaches, if applied by African media, have the potential to positively and objectively contribute to communication about the African debt with an inclination to solution-based applications. The study closes by a call to action for African media to be more responsible for their own image and to work towards a more balanced and focused coverage of not only the debt issue but other matters of international interest currently trending on the continent.
建设性新闻通过寻求解决棘手社会问题的方法来证明其存在的合理性。本文的中心思想是讨论为什么建设性新闻可以成为非洲新闻实践的重要途径。本研究以非洲和国际媒体对中非债务问题的报道为例进行分析。本文还以西方、非洲和中国网络媒体的内容为例,讨论了网络文章和报道如何描述债务问题。可以说,有一种强烈的假设是,与研究中调查的中国同行相比,西方和非洲媒体在报道非洲对华债务方面有更多的相似之处,而不是差异。在寻找解决办法和提供其他新闻观点的框架内,这项研究揭示了这样一个事实,即建设性的新闻方法,如果被非洲媒体采用,有可能积极和客观地促进关于非洲债务的交流,倾向于以解决方案为基础的应用。研究报告最后呼吁非洲媒体采取行动,对自己的形象更加负责,努力更加平衡和集中报道,不仅报道债务问题,而且报道非洲大陆目前趋势的其他国际关心的问题。
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Rise and #Fall: The unsuspended revolution 崛起与衰落:不间断的革命
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q3 COMMUNICATION Pub Date : 2019-09-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00006_1
B. Leopeng
This article utilizes a multimodal media analysis similar to Parker that takes place on three levels: (1) it connects an interview completed by professor Habib in a 2014 issue of the South African magazine publication Destiny Man, (2) with the events captured in photography of the 2015 #FeesMustFall protest as well as (3) the events recorded an Internet documentary entitled Decolonising Wits. This critical analysis utilizes a psychosocial perspective showing strong links between these events that led to the proliferation of decolonization in South African academic institutions as a result. The #FeesMustFall protests at Wits University is seen as a response to the inegalitarian modes of discourse present in the analysed interview, and the selected scenes of real events in the documentary film. This article includes direct quotes from that written interview, photography from the #Feesmustfall events, and links to specific scenes in the documentary film in order to provide a multimodal approach to analysing psychosocial politics in the media.
这篇文章运用了与Parker类似的多模式媒体分析,在三个层面上进行:(1)它将2014年南非杂志《Destiny Man》中Habib教授完成的采访联系起来,(2)与2015年#FeesMustFall抗议活动的摄影中捕捉到的事件联系起来,以及(3)互联网纪录片《去殖民化智慧》记录的事件。这一批判性分析从社会心理角度显示了这些事件之间的密切联系,这些事件导致了南非学术机构中非殖民化的扩散。Wits大学的#学费必须下降抗议活动被视为对分析访谈中出现的不平等主义话语模式的回应,以及纪录片中选定的真实事件场景。本文包括直接引用该书面采访、#Feesmustfall活动的摄影,以及纪录片中特定场景的链接,以提供分析媒体社会心理政治的多模式方法。
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