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Television in Ghana: History, policy, culture and prospects in a globalized media ecology 加纳的电视:全球化媒体生态中的历史、政策、文化和前景
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-09-05 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00105_1
Ramatu Mustapha Dadzie
The move to constitutional rule and deregulation of media ushered Ghana into the milieu of media globalization. As such local television is experiencing a balancing act between national autonomy and international commitments. Given the limited empirical scrutiny of the progress of local television in the globalization milieu, this study examines the globalized and dynamic environment within which local television functions in Ghana. This study reveals an industry that is characterized by changing notions of culture and shifting policies that attempt to accommodate contemporary global commitments, while at the same time give support to culturally authentic and nationally relevant contents.
宪政的发展和媒体管制的放松,使加纳进入了媒体全球化的环境。因此,地方电视台正在经历民族自治和国际承诺之间的平衡。鉴于对全球化背景下地方电视进展的有限实证审查,本研究考察了加纳地方电视运作的全球化和动态环境。这项研究揭示了一个以不断变化的文化观念和不断变化的政策为特征的行业,这些政策试图适应当代全球承诺,同时支持文化上真实的和与国家相关的内容。
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Keeping the Port of Tema afloat during COVID-19: Media responses to user informational and conversational needs 在2019冠状病毒病期间保持特马港的运转:媒体对用户信息和对话需求的回应
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-08-18 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00108_1
Martin Arvad Nicolaisen, Casper Andersen, Phillip Stenmann Baun, Jonas Aryee, A. S. Hansen
Two different media platforms played a key role in keeping Tema Port in Ghana afloat during the period immediately leading up to and during the three-week COVID-19 pandemic-related lockdown in late March–April of 2020. The one media platform, Eye on Port, is a weekly broadcast television show by the port’s authorities, which caters primarily to external commercial stakeholders of the port. The other platform is a closed WhatsApp forum used by stakeholders working at the operational level of the port. Both platforms served specific needs among their users, who had been restricted in their mobility but had to keep the port operational. Combining ‘scalable sociality’ with the concept of polymedia, we identify how the two media functioned to meet the different informational and conversational needs of their respective users. We argue that either medium alone could not fulfil the communicative needs necessary to keep the port operational during the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic.
在2020年3月下旬至4月期间,在与COVID-19大流行相关的为期三周的封锁期间,两个不同的媒体平台在维持加纳特马港的运营方面发挥了关键作用。唯一的媒体平台“眼观港口”(Eye on Port)是由港口当局每周播出的电视节目,主要面向港口的外部商业利益相关者。另一个平台是一个封闭的WhatsApp论坛,供港口运营层面的利益相关者使用。这两个平台都满足了用户的特定需求,这些用户的行动受到限制,但必须保持端口的运行。结合“可扩展社交”和多媒体的概念,我们确定了这两种媒体是如何满足各自用户不同的信息和对话需求的。我们认为,在COVID-19大流行的早期阶段,仅靠这两种媒体都无法满足保持港口运营所需的沟通需求。
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Young African diaspora: Global African narratives, media consumption and identity formation 非洲青年散居:全球非洲叙事,媒体消费和身份形成
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00102_1
L. L. Mukhongo, W. Mano, W. Chuma
This study focused on identity formation and media consumption among first-generation young Africans in the diaspora. It investigated what it means to be African and the impact of multiple identities and forms of belonging within diasporic communities. Emphasis was on how they experience the diaspora as liminal spaces and subsequently negotiate relationships with other Africans in indeterminate diasporic spaces to construct, redefine, negotiate and even contest identities. Using snowballing and purposive sampling, the study analysed first-hand accounts and interviews informed by personal histories and lived experiences of (1) what they know about Africa; (2) their sense of belonging to Africa; (3) how Africa is represented in the media and (4) their views/attitudes on markers of African identity. Findings indicate that young Africans in the diaspora have a strong sense of belonging to Africa and are actively engaged with different forms of African media such as music and films.
本研究主要关注散居海外的第一代年轻非洲人的身份形成和媒体消费。它调查了作为非洲人意味着什么,以及在散居社区中多重身份和归属形式的影响。重点是他们如何体验作为有限空间的散居,并随后在不确定的散居空间中与其他非洲人协商关系,以构建、重新定义、协商甚至竞争身份。该研究采用滚雪球法和有目的的抽样方法,分析了由个人历史和生活经历所提供的第一手资料和访谈:(1)他们对非洲的了解;(2)对非洲的归属感;(3)媒体如何呈现非洲;(4)他们对非洲身份标志的看法/态度。调查结果表明,散居海外的非洲年轻人对非洲有强烈的归属感,并积极参与不同形式的非洲媒体,如音乐和电影。
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Beyond western Afro-pessimism: The African narrative in African and non-western countries 超越西方非洲悲观主义:非洲和非西方国家的非洲叙事
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00097_2
Rebecca Pointer
Although some studies have previously indicated that the stereotypical western mainstream media narratives about Africa may be shifting, this Special Issue highlights the stickiness of the stereotypes, and some of the platforms on which they continue to be repeated. Some of these studies further show how African media are also responsible for ongoing circulation of the stereotypes. While the data are discouraging, there are pockets of hope on digital media (including social media), where women and youth are taking back the proverbial pen using storytelling and humour to show that Africa is neither monolithic, nor all doom and gloom. Even through the COVID-19 pandemic, Africans entertained the world with music, dancing and comedy, proving resilience and optimism, against Afro-pessimistic narratives.
尽管之前的一些研究表明,西方主流媒体对非洲的刻板印象可能正在发生变化,但本期特刊强调了刻板印象的粘性,以及它们继续重复的一些平台。其中一些研究进一步表明,非洲媒体也要对这些刻板印象的持续传播负责。虽然数据令人沮丧,但在数字媒体(包括社交媒体)上还是有希望的,妇女和青年正在用讲故事和幽默的方式拿回谚语中的笔,表明非洲既不是铁板一块,也不是一片黯淡。即使在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间,非洲人也用音乐、舞蹈和喜剧娱乐了世界,证明了韧性和乐观,而不是非洲悲观的叙述。
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Digital cities and villages: African writers and a sense of place in short online fiction 数字城市和乡村:非洲作家和短篇网络小说中的地方感
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00101_1
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang
This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on cities and villages. Authored by ten writers from Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Malawi and Egypt, the stories contain elements of fiction that risk perpetuating negative stereotypes about Africa as they imagine their respective settings. However, textual analysis supported by an appreciation of context reveals how the writers use these stereotypes as basis to craft strong African narratives. By doing so, the writers emphasize the effect that places have on characters, theme, setting and the image of Africa. Ultimately, the roles that urban and rural spaces play in online fiction are multifaceted and enhance the African narrative in complex ways.
这篇文章分析了年轻的非洲作家如何通过他们在网络短篇小说中对地方的想象来挑战对非洲大陆的刻板印象。这些故事出现在文学网站脆性纸、Jalada、Saraba、Flash Fiction Ghana、Adda和非洲作家杂志上,重点关注城市和村庄。这些故事由来自加纳、尼日利亚、肯尼亚、马拉维和埃及的10位作家撰写,它们包含了虚构的元素,在想象各自的环境时,可能会使人们对非洲的负面刻板印象永久化。然而,在语境欣赏的支持下,文本分析揭示了作者如何使用这些刻板印象作为基础来制作强大的非洲叙事。通过这样做,作者强调了地点对人物、主题、背景和非洲形象的影响。最终,城市和农村空间在网络小说中扮演的角色是多方面的,并以复杂的方式增强了非洲叙事。
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How are Africans talking about climate change and who is doing the talking? 非洲人是如何谈论气候变化的?谁在谈论气候变化?
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00103_1
Rebecca Pointer, S. Matsiko
This study identifies who is talking about climate change in Africa, both in the mainstream media and on Twitter, and analyses the key messages emerging from the different platforms. For the mainstream media, we used Google’s Global Database of Events, Language and Tone (GDELT) platform to access articles using the search terms ‘climate change AND Africa’ or ‘climate change’ and the name of all 54 African countries. We then identified the top five countries with the most articles in the sample and using random sampling, undertook a frame analysis of the articles. Regarding Twitter, we downloaded tweets containing ‘climate change AND Africa’ or ‘climate change’ and the name of all 54 African countries, identified who was tweeting and what they were tweeting about. We also identified key African climate change activists and analysed their tweets. While the nature of mainstream media coverage varies across the top five countries, a slight shift towards articles focused on adaptation and mitigation was observed, away from purely disaster narratives. Worryingly, for Twitter, very few African voices are tweeting about climate change and what they are tweeting does not draw much attention to pertinent issues on the continent in respect of climate change.
这项研究确定了在主流媒体和Twitter上谈论非洲气候变化的人,并分析了来自不同平台的关键信息。对于主流媒体,我们使用b谷歌的全球事件、语言和语调数据库(GDELT)平台,使用“气候变化与非洲”或“气候变化”搜索词以及所有54个非洲国家的名称来获取文章。然后,我们确定了样本中文章最多的前五个国家,并使用随机抽样,对文章进行了框架分析。关于推特,我们下载了包含“气候变化与非洲”或“气候变化”的推文,以及所有54个非洲国家的名称,确定了谁在发推文以及他们在发推文的内容。我们还确定了非洲主要的气候变化活动人士,并分析了他们的推文。虽然主流媒体报道的性质在排名前五的国家有所不同,但观察到,从纯粹的灾难叙述转向侧重于适应和缓解的文章略有转变。令人担忧的是,对于Twitter来说,很少有非洲的声音在Twitter上谈论气候变化,他们的推文也没有引起人们对非洲大陆气候变化相关问题的关注。
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This is Africa: How young African TikTok trends challenged Afropessimism during COVID-19 这就是非洲:在2019冠状病毒病期间,非洲年轻的抖音趋势如何挑战非洲悲观主义
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00098_1
Fungai Machirori
Afropessimism, or the western media tradition of covering Africa in stereotypically negative ways, has continually served to strip the continent of representational nuance and agency. While Africa experienced its own COVID-19 challenges during the pandemic, the Afropessimistic outlook of total collapse and carnage did not become a reality. In fact, with the popular uptake of TikTok as the pandemic wore on, Africans began social media trends that kept many globally entertained as they navigated new lockdown realities. This study looks at three of these TikTok trends, namely #JerusalemaChallenge, #DontRushChallenge and #DontLeaveMeChallenge. Through textual analysis, the study explores if and how these trends provided counternarratives to Afropessimism. With dominant themes such as humour and dance emerging, findings suggest that these trends offered content that can be read as contributing to challenging Afropessimism through cultivating African digital agency and representation.
非洲悲观主义,或西方媒体以刻板的负面方式报道非洲的传统,一直在剥夺非洲大陆代表性的细微差别和代理。虽然非洲在疫情期间经历了自己的COVID-19挑战,但非洲人对全面崩溃和大屠杀的悲观看法并没有成为现实。事实上,随着疫情的蔓延,TikTok的流行,非洲人开启了社交媒体潮流,让全球许多人在应对新的封锁现实时保持娱乐。这项研究着眼于TikTok的三个趋势,即# jerusalemchallenge, #DontRushChallenge和# dontleavemecchallenge。通过文本分析,本研究探讨了这些趋势是否以及如何为非洲悲观主义提供了反叙事。随着幽默和舞蹈等主导主题的出现,研究结果表明,这些趋势提供的内容可以被解读为通过培养非洲数字机构和代表性来挑战非洲悲观主义。
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Unveiling African narratives on Facebook: Media posts and audience engagement 在Facebook上揭开非洲叙事:媒体帖子和受众参与
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00100_1
D. O. Ong'ong'a
The issue of African narratives has attracted significant attention in traditional media studies. On social media in general, and on Facebook in particular, little is known about these narratives. This study addresses the public’s concerns about African narratives on social media by meeting the demand for empirical data on African narratives from an alternative media perspective in Africa. The study follows these debates on Facebook, which are frequently used to raise public awareness and sway public opinion on important issues. The study used thematic content analysis to determine the most prevalent themes covered in the selected posts as well as the sentiments expressed in the comments. To make sense of the data, the study applied critical alternative media theory. The study revealed that topical issues about politics and international affairs, domestic conflict and death, sports and health dominated the media, and sentiments in the comments viewed Africans as a solution to Africa’s problems. Furthermore, the study established that negative stories elicited negative responses, and Africans regarded other African countries as crucial to the continent’s growth. As a result, the study shows that Facebook has evolved into an essential platform for media to share alternative African narratives.
非洲叙事问题在传统媒体研究中引起了极大的关注。一般来说,在社交媒体上,尤其是在Facebook上,人们对这些叙事知之甚少。本研究通过满足对非洲另类媒体视角下非洲叙事经验数据的需求,解决了公众对社交媒体上非洲叙事的关注。这项研究跟踪了Facebook上的这些辩论,这些辩论经常被用来提高公众意识,影响公众对重要问题的看法。该研究使用主题内容分析来确定所选帖子中最流行的主题,以及评论中表达的情绪。为了理解这些数据,该研究应用了批判性替代媒体理论。这项研究表明,政治和国际事务、国内冲突和死亡、体育和健康等话题占据了媒体的主导地位,评论中的观点将非洲人视为非洲问题的解决方案。此外,该研究还证实,负面故事会引发负面反应,非洲人认为其他非洲国家对非洲大陆的增长至关重要。因此,这项研究表明,Facebook已经发展成为媒体分享非洲另类叙事的重要平台。
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COVID-19 and the constructions of Africa in African news media 新冠肺炎与非洲新闻媒体中的非洲建设
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00099_1
Mphathisi Ndlovu, Maame Nikabs
This article examines the constructions of Africa in COVID-19-related stories that were produced by African news media. Dominant scholarship indicates that western media generally reproduce and perpetuate harmful stereotypes on Africa. Given that there is scant literature on how African media covers Africa, this article uses the COVID-19 pandemic as an entry point to explore the disease narratives on Africa. Drawing on Afrokology as decolonial perspective, this article examines the discourses and narratives on Africa that were produced by African news organizations. Data were drawn from ten news organizations from Ghana, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Egypt. A quantitative corpus analysis and a qualitative critical discourse analysis were used to analyse the COVID-19-related stories. Findings demonstrate that harmful disease stereotypes about Africa as a place of danger, darkness, tragedy and human rights abuses were reproduced by the African media.
本文考察了非洲新闻媒体在2019冠状病毒病相关报道中对非洲的建构。占主导地位的学术研究表明,西方媒体普遍复制和延续对非洲的有害成见。鉴于关于非洲媒体如何报道非洲的文献很少,本文以COVID-19大流行为切入点,探讨非洲的疾病叙事。利用非洲学作为去殖民主义的视角,本文考察了非洲新闻机构所产生的关于非洲的话语和叙述。数据来自加纳、坦桑尼亚、津巴布韦、南非和埃及的10家新闻机构。采用定量语料库分析和定性批评话语分析对covid -19相关故事进行分析。调查结果表明,将非洲视为危险、黑暗、悲剧和侵犯人权的地方的有害疾病定型观念被非洲媒体转载。
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New media and re-bargaining patriarchy in Kenyan families 新媒体和肯尼亚家庭父权制的重新谈判
IF 0.8 4区 文学 Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1386/jams_00092_1
P. Nielsen, S. Chebii
This article aims to empirically analyse and theoretically reflect on how the appropriation of new information and communication technologies in everyday life interrelates with continuous renegotiations of contemporary social and family relations in Kenya. Various changes in the locally specific communication ecologies in Kenya occur simultaneously with similar important societal changes related to migration, wage labour, marketization and increased access to education. Consequently, people’s basic living conditions in everyday life have changed in terms of connectivity, knowledge, power, time and space, with traditional family relations being challenged, re-bargained and re-established in a complex synthesis between continuity and change. Taking theoretical reflections on patriarchy, power and communication ecologies as its point of departure, the article conducts empirical analyses grounded in semi-structured ethnographic interviews and observations. The article presents an account of how the new diverse communication ecologies interrelate with continuous negotiations of family relations in a re-bargaining of patriarchy.
本文旨在实证分析和理论反思在日常生活中使用新的信息和通信技术如何与肯尼亚当代社会和家庭关系的不断重新谈判相互关联。肯尼亚当地特有的通讯生态的各种变化与移徙、雇佣劳动、市场化和增加受教育机会等类似的重要社会变化同时发生。因此,人们在日常生活中的基本生存条件在连通性、知识、权力、时间和空间方面发生了变化,传统的家庭关系在连续性与变化的复杂综合中受到挑战、重新讨价还价和重新建立。本文以对父权制、权力和传播生态的理论反思为出发点,以半结构化民族志访谈和观察为基础进行实证分析。本文介绍了在父权制的重新讨价还价中,新的多样化的传播生态是如何与家庭关系的持续谈判相互关联的。
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