Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa - Cameroon

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by African scholars, this volume maps out the changing media ecology of Cameroon and provides practical survey methods for communication research. The work details the impact mass public communication has had on the empowerment of Cameroon's 15 million people and the development of grassroots participatory democracy.

About the author

Festus Eribo is Associate Professor of International Communication and Head of African Studies at East Carolina University. He is the author of In Search of Greatness: Russia's Communications with Africa and the World (2001) and coeditor of Press Freedom and Communication in Africa (with William Jong-Ebot, 1997). Enoh Tanjong is Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Buea in Cameroon.

Summary

Providing an analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon, this text offers an insight into the development of Cameroon's state and privately-owned oral, print, and electronic media.

Product details

• Assisted by: Festus Eribo (Editor), Eribo Festus (Editor), Enoh Tanjong (Editor), Enoh (Chair Tanjong (Editor), Tanjong Enoh (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2002
• EAN: 9780739103777
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-0377-7
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 238 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 399 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Cameroon, Media, Information & Communication Industries