Pub Date : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2280269
Trust Matsilele, Lungile Tshuma
Environmental journalism has passed through a plethora of iterations—from a reporting that was science-oriented to a reporting for popular publications focusing on the green. This qualitative study...
环境新闻经历了大量的迭代——从以科学为导向的报道到以绿色为重点的流行出版物的报道。这个定性研究…
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Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2272438
Dinfin Mulupi
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDinfin MulupiDinfin Mulupi is a PhD candidate in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, USA. She holds an Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media, and Globalization from Aarhus University (Denmark) and City, University of London, UK. Dinfin’s research interests focus on the intersection between media, race and gender equity, particularly the representation of women and ethnic minorities in newsrooms and news content, and use of social networking platforms for feminist and racial justice activism. Email: dmulupi@terpmail.umd.edu
{"title":"African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora <b>African women in digital spaces: redefining social movements on the continent and in the diaspora</b> , by Msia Kibona Clark and Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed, Dar es Salaam, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, 2023, 352 pp, $40.29(paperback), ISBN 9789987753819","authors":"Dinfin Mulupi","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2272438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2272438","url":null,"abstract":"Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsDinfin MulupiDinfin Mulupi is a PhD candidate in Journalism Studies at the University of Maryland College Park, USA. She holds an Erasmus Mundus MA in Journalism, Media, and Globalization from Aarhus University (Denmark) and City, University of London, UK. Dinfin’s research interests focus on the intersection between media, race and gender equity, particularly the representation of women and ethnic minorities in newsrooms and news content, and use of social networking platforms for feminist and racial justice activism. Email: dmulupi@terpmail.umd.edu","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"88 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135725683","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 : 2023-11-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2272435
Manfred Antwi Kofi Asuman
"African language media." African Journalism Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsManfred Antwi Kofi AsumanManfred Antwi Kofi Asuman is an assistant professor and postdoctoral associate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
{"title":"African language media <b>African language media</b> , edited by Philip Mpofu, Israel A. Fadipe, and Thulani Tshabangu, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2023, pp. 228, ISBN: 9781032395272, $160.00(hardcover), ISBN 9781003350194, $34.06 (e-book).","authors":"Manfred Antwi Kofi Asuman","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2272435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2272435","url":null,"abstract":"\"African language media.\" African Journalism Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsManfred Antwi Kofi AsumanManfred Antwi Kofi Asuman is an assistant professor and postdoctoral associate at the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"23 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974109","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 : 2023-10-17DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2267245
Job Allan Wefwafwa
"The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries." African Journalism Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJob Allan WefwafwaJob Allan Wefwafwa is a Post-doctoral Researcher and Sessional Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa, He is also a Full-Time Lecturer at Technical University of Kenya. His doctorate is in journalism and media Studies, focusing on social media and African electoral politics. He heads several research teams including: a three member team researching on the adoption of oral communication in museum documentation in Africa; and a six-member team researching on WhatsApp and Xenophobia in South Africa. Previously, he headed a South African team in a multi-country Project about media reporting on Gender-Based Violence. He has held numerous fellowships and grants.
{"title":"The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries <b>The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries</b> , by George Ogola, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023, 233 pp. $160.99hbk, ISBN 978-3-031-18832-9, ISBN 978-3-031-18833-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18833-6ext.","authors":"Job Allan Wefwafwa","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2023.2267245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2023.2267245","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Future of Television in the Global South; Reflections from Selected Countries.\" African Journalism Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2 Additional informationNotes on contributorsJob Allan WefwafwaJob Allan Wefwafwa is a Post-doctoral Researcher and Sessional Lecturer at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa, He is also a Full-Time Lecturer at Technical University of Kenya. His doctorate is in journalism and media Studies, focusing on social media and African electoral politics. He heads several research teams including: a three member team researching on the adoption of oral communication in museum documentation in Africa; and a six-member team researching on WhatsApp and Xenophobia in South Africa. Previously, he headed a South African team in a multi-country Project about media reporting on Gender-Based Violence. He has held numerous fellowships and grants.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136037756","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 : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2244551
E. Dim
ABSTRACT In October 2020, anger among Nigerian citizens about violence being perpetrated by the notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) erupted in a series of virtual and in-person protests. Nigerian women used the #EndSARS protest movement to navigate the patriarchal and oppressive nature of the state and demand the end of police brutality and more accountability among state security agents. The media has played an immense role in shaping the narratives of the protest movement and women’s involvement in it. This study examines the frames used by Nigerian news media when reporting on women’s participation in the #EndSARS movement. Analysis of 174 online news articles published in October 2020 in Punch, The Sun Nigeria, Guardian Nigeria and The Cable revealed that the media framed the female protesters as having vital political agency and clear insights into the relations between the state and its citizens, but also as passive victims.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-17DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2244539
Sisanda Nkoala
ABSTRACT This paper argues for developing a more holistic approach to the rhetorical analysis to understand the persuasive communicative work being done by television news as rhetors replicating and performing popular culture. The essay argues that studies on the rhetoricality of television news reports tend to either focus on the reports’ messages through an analysis of the content or consider the medium on which the reports are aired or the form of these texts. As such, there appears to be a gap in postulating how the content, the medium and the argumentation schemes employed in television news reports come together to engage in persuasive communicative work. Given the status of television news reports as popular culture texts, theories need to be developed to make meaning of their representations of society’s most dominant practices and perspectives.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2204447
Emma Heywood, Lassané Yaméogo
ABSTRACT The article draws on the concepts of “felt needs” and “politics of listening” widely used in community development and applies them more broadly to the humanitarian crisis suffered by internally displaced persons in Burkina Faso. It investigates the two-way communication stream between radio journalists and listeners drawing on feedback collected remotely from 153 representatives of internally displaced and host communities in Burkina Faso during COVID-19. It argues that while a voice must be given to marginalised communities, it must also be listened to and acted upon. Rather than radio journalism being a loudspeaker for top-down messaging, the study argues that alternative approaches should be adopted in conflict- and pandemic-affected areas. It finds that a balance is needed between the information that listeners feel they need in their new extreme circumstances and the information that radio journalists, drawing on their expertise, feel would be strategically empowering.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2022.2137547
L. Cervi, S. Tejedor, Chiogo Constance Ikokwu
ABSTRACT Mediatization has often been viewed as a western phenomenon with scholars focusing largely on the relationship between the media and politics, especially in the United States and Europe where the concept originated. However, globalization and its attendant impacts have allowed for the intercourse of ideas and disciplines across borders. The concept of mediatization is not an exception in this regard. The rise of television news, increased media influence, and dependence on media logic have arguably become a global trend. Mediatization is a perspective that can be used to understand the roles of the media in society and politics, especially electoral campaigns and their dynamics across the world. This paper attempts a review of mediatization and politics in Nigeria. It examines the nature of political news journalism in the country; the character and structure of media ownership; the influence that the media wields on the Nigerian society among other key features that reflect meditatization of politics in the country. The paper argues that indeed, the Nigerian media reveals different dimensions of the mediatization of politics.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/23743670.2023.2179091
P. Mpofu
ABSTRACT African language press plays important linguistic roles including language development, maintenance and pedagogy. However, Zimbabwe’s African language press has struggled to exist in a highly competitive print media market dominated by English language newspapers. For that reason, they have resorted to eccentric reporting styles including code mixing. Although this linguistic practice is perceived as language corruption and retrogressive, it is commonplace in Kwayedza, an African language tabloid that prints in Shona. Deploying code switching, poststructuralism and political economy of the media perspectives, this article critiques the use of code mixing and its implications on the existence of the newspaper. The article demonstrates how African language press struggle to balance the cultural function of language maintenance and commercial interests. The study shows that Kwayedza deploys code-mixed lingo to connect with readers by using language synonymous with everyday discourse and to close language gaps in reporting specialised news. The article provides insights into African language press’ response to the society’s complex sociolinguistic realities and extends debates on language use and the survival strategies of African language press in a highly competitive and predominantly English language print media market.
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