Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1884581
Kelebonye Bagai, Gabriel Faimau
ABSTRACT Intimate partner homicide (IPH) has become one of the most challenging socio-cultural issues in contemporary Botswana. This paper seeks to examine how female victims of IPH are represented in the Botswana print media. Drawing on data collected from 63 newspaper articles published in four Botswana newspapers between January 2010 and December 2013, the study found that the Botswana print media outlets generally do not represent female victims of IPH in a fair manner as they maintain denigration, degradation and infantilisation of women in their reports. At a macro level, this representation seems to be influenced by an embedded patriarchal ideology. At a micro level, media coverage of intimate femicide tends to sensationalise the causes of passion killings by employing a victim-blaming frame in the representations of the female victims. Using a Critical Discourse Analytical approach, we argue that this mode of media representation does not only maintain the existing gender inequality but also reinforces, perpetuates and naturalises a vicious gender circle. While media reports may have translated the embedded patriarchal ideology to its reporting on the female victims of IPH, we suggest that efforts to achieve gender equality should involve public education including gender-sensitive reporting by public and private print media.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1887909
Adeola Abdulateef Elega, F. Oloyede, Bahire Özad
ABSTRACT This study investigates the foreign media coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election through a content analysis of news stories (n = 135) obtained from 10 international news sources. This study aims to evaluate the dominant frames that emerged in the coverage of the election as well as the tones used by the international news sources in the coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election. Empirical evidence reveals that the political system frame, human interest/people frame, and violence frame are the major frames that emerged from the international news sources. We also found that the tone of the international media coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election was neutral, although the sum of news stories reported in a negative and critical manner was also relatively noticeable, especially by the American news sources. Overall, we conclude that the foreign media coverage and framing of Nigeria's 2019 general election were relatively neutral, hence maintaining the time-honoured fundamental values of journalism and election coverage—balance and fairness.
{"title":"“Looking from the Outside in”: A Study on the International Media Coverage and Framing of Nigeria's 2019 General Election","authors":"Adeola Abdulateef Elega, F. Oloyede, Bahire Özad","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1887909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1887909","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the foreign media coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election through a content analysis of news stories (n = 135) obtained from 10 international news sources. This study aims to evaluate the dominant frames that emerged in the coverage of the election as well as the tones used by the international news sources in the coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election. Empirical evidence reveals that the political system frame, human interest/people frame, and violence frame are the major frames that emerged from the international news sources. We also found that the tone of the international media coverage of Nigeria's 2019 general election was neutral, although the sum of news stories reported in a negative and critical manner was also relatively noticeable, especially by the American news sources. Overall, we conclude that the foreign media coverage and framing of Nigeria's 2019 general election were relatively neutral, hence maintaining the time-honoured fundamental values of journalism and election coverage—balance and fairness.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"91 - 107"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1887909","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48531859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1861473
Khulekani Ndlovu
ABSTRACT The political agency of youth has been the subject of much theoretical debate within the domains of political science, youth studies, conflict studies and development studies. This paper adopts a media studies perspective to contestations about the political agency of Zimbabwean youth. Motivation for doing so derives from the recognition that modern politics is predominantly a mass-mediated politics. Relatedly, the subject of youth and politics has received extensive media coverage in Zimbabwean media. Using the critical political economy approach and qualitative frame analysis, the paper explores two purposively sampled case studies that illustrate the contestations about the political agency of Zimbabwean youth. Findings reveal that media framings of youth agency sidestep the substantive policy and public interest issues that animate and motivate young politicians. Such normatively deficient framing is attributable to the political parallelism and media polarisation that characterises Zimbabwean political discourse.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2021.1888138
J. Mohammed
ABSTRACT Although the Ethiopian government has often claimed that state media follow development journalism (DJ) as their reporting style, broadcasting frequencies have been aggressively grabbed by public relations (PR) departments of government offices. The purpose of this research is to explore the type of journalism that has been implemented in the Ethiopian state media. The research follows a qualitative approach to conduct in-depth interviews and to do a document analysis. Apposite documents were gathered from Ethiopian Broadcast Corporation (owned by the federal government) and four regional state mass media houses. The researcher interviewed several media managers and journalists from the state media houses. The findings of the research show that PR practitioners are increasingly working as agenda-setters and gatekeepers while they deter investigative reporting, constructive criticism and ethical practices of the profession. The paper concludes that the PR-driven model of journalism is what the Ethiopian state media are practising. This paper also identifies the major features of the PR-driven journalism model. The research concludes that state media are often idealistic to implement DJ and suggests that community media needs to be considered for the implementation of DJ model of reporting.
{"title":"PR-Driven Journalism Model: The Case of Ethiopia","authors":"J. Mohammed","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1888138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1888138","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Although the Ethiopian government has often claimed that state media follow development journalism (DJ) as their reporting style, broadcasting frequencies have been aggressively grabbed by public relations (PR) departments of government offices. The purpose of this research is to explore the type of journalism that has been implemented in the Ethiopian state media. The research follows a qualitative approach to conduct in-depth interviews and to do a document analysis. Apposite documents were gathered from Ethiopian Broadcast Corporation (owned by the federal government) and four regional state mass media houses. The researcher interviewed several media managers and journalists from the state media houses. The findings of the research show that PR practitioners are increasingly working as agenda-setters and gatekeepers while they deter investigative reporting, constructive criticism and ethical practices of the profession. The paper concludes that the PR-driven model of journalism is what the Ethiopian state media are practising. This paper also identifies the major features of the PR-driven journalism model. The research concludes that state media are often idealistic to implement DJ and suggests that community media needs to be considered for the implementation of DJ model of reporting.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"108 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1888138","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43348125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-18DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1855457
T. Tshabangu
ABSTRACT This study focuses on news discourses by citizen journalists at the citizen journalism and alternative media platform of AMH Voices in Zimbabwe between the years 2014–2018. Central to the study was an endeavour to demonstrate how the multidimensional crisis in Zimbabwe supported the emergence of citizen journalism and how citizen journalists constructed alternative political narratives and counterhegemonic discourses of the crisis on the platform. The theoretical point of departure is that of interpretive communities. Zelizer (1993. “Journalists as Interpretive Communities.” Critical Studies in Mass Communication 10 (3): 219–237) observes that journalists become an interpretive community when they are united through shared discourses and collective interpretations of key public events. The argument is that AMH Voices emerged as an interpretive community of citizen journalists bound by common counterhegemonic interpretations of the crisis. The methodological approach to data analysis was critical discourse analysis which allowed the researcher to investigate meanings, emerging themes and ideological bias of citizen journalism. The study established that citizen news discourses at AMH Voices were mostly framed in non-dominant perspectives using interpretive news writing styles to express alternative political narratives, challenge the status quo and advocate for radical political change. The interpretive writing style foregrounded the citizen journalists’ interpretations, opinions and emotions regarding the crisis.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-20DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1840413
A. T. Ambala
{"title":"Adapting Digital Storytelling Methods to African Contexts: Insights from the Utaifa Project","authors":"A. T. Ambala","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2020.1840413","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2020.1840413","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2020.1840413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43612663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-12DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1817765
Claire Moran, B. Robards
This article is a reflexive analysis of two overlapping research methods, social media ethnography and “scroll-back interviews”, that were employed to study how young first- and second-generation A...
{"title":"Researching Connected African Youth in Australia through Social Media Ethnography and Scroll-Back Interviews","authors":"Claire Moran, B. Robards","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2020.1817765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2020.1817765","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a reflexive analysis of two overlapping research methods, social media ethnography and “scroll-back interviews”, that were employed to study how young first- and second-generation A...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2020.1817765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46660181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1865648
J. Burgess, A. Bruns
This article offers an Australian perspective on the definitions, significance and potential of digital methods in digital media, communication and cultural studies. We begin by situating this perspective in terms of postcolonial geography and disciplinarity and then argue for the value of hybrid digital methods, by which we mean the integration of computational methods and knowledges with qualitative and critical frameworks and approaches. We apply this framework in providing a brief commentary on each of the articles included in this Special Issue, demonstrating how they are all in various ways making important contributions to the further development of hybrid digital methods in African contexts and in digital media research more broadly.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645
Alette Schoon, H. Mabweazara, T. Bosch, H. Dugmore
This introductory essay argues for a decolonial approach that privileges qualitative methods in ways that position African digital experiences as “epistemic sites” of knowledge production in their ...
{"title":"Decolonising Digital Media Research Methods: Positioning African Digital Experiences as Epistemic Sites of Knowledge Production","authors":"Alette Schoon, H. Mabweazara, T. Bosch, H. Dugmore","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645","url":null,"abstract":"This introductory essay argues for a decolonial approach that privileges qualitative methods in ways that position African digital experiences as “epistemic sites” of knowledge production in their ...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2020.1865645","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43355930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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