Africa''s Media Image in the 21st Century - From the 'Heart of Darkness' to 'Africa Rising'

Zusatztext "Mel Bunce! Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson have assembled the single most important collection of analyses of African media and image in at least a quarter of a century. In practically all respects this volume goes beyond previous! mainly 20th century! northern-centered ways of framing and thinking about Africa's media image and! in their place! carries us well into the 21st century. This is a post-'Africa pessimism' century of African and international narratives of Africa. These are told through an astonishing variety of perspectives! technologies and media platforms. Their audience includes a robust! continent-wide and technology-empowered middle-class. Processes of imperialism and neo-imperialism have not disappeared. But the agents! trajectories and meanings of imperialism are opened to re-assessment."Oliver Boyd-Barrett! Professor Emeritus! Bowling Green State University! Ohio and California State Polytechnic University! Pomona"This is an excellent book which fills a crucial gap in existing literature. It has a wide range of contributors offering key insights and analysis - a must read for students and academics in development studies as well as those in media and international journalism."Gregory Philo! Professor of Communications and Social Change! University of Glasgow Informationen zum Autor Mel Bunce is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City University London, where she researches and teaches in the areas of global media, news production, and ethics. A former journalist from New Zealand, Mel has researched the work of foreign correspondents in Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Senegal, and Nigeria. Suzanne Franks is Professor of Journalism at City University London, where she is Head of Department and convenes a module on Humanitarian Communication. A former BBC TV current affairs journalist, she has made several films about Africa. Her publications include Reporting Disasters: Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media (2013). Chris Paterson researches and teaches at the University of Leeds, UK. He wrote in the original Africa's Media Image (1992), has co-edited five books, and has authored The International Television News Agencies (2011) and War Reporters under Threat: The United States and Media Freedom (2014). Klappentext Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international news coverage of Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore the current state of news coverage of the continent and its people. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and 'dark Africa' news coverage, and by exploring the international power dynamics, and the structures and technologies of global news production which shape and reshape the contemporary media image of Africa. Zusammenfassung Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose perspectives are told and the forms of media that empower new voices. Case studies consider questions such as: how has new media changed whose views are represented? Does Chinese or diaspora media offer alternative perspectives for viewing the continent? How do foreign correspondents interact with their audiences in a social media age? What is the contemporary role of charity groups and PR firms in shaping news content? They also examine how recent high profile events and issues b...

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Foreword
Beverly Hawk

Introduction: a new Africa's Media Image?
Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson

PART I: Framing Africa

1. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story"
Mel Bunce

2. Media perspectives: in defence of Western journalists in Africa
Michela Wrong

3. Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters
Francis B. Nyamnjoh

4. Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? A letter of concern to 60 Minutes
Howard W. French

5. How not to write about writing about Africa
Martin Scott

6 Bringing Africa home. reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television
Stijn Joye

7. The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK.
Olatunji Ogunyemi

PART II: The image makers

8. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: how do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience?
Toussaint Nothias

9. Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa: 30 years on
Zeinab Badawi

10. Foreign correspondents in sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture
Paulo Nuno Vicente

11. Media perspectives: reflecting on my father's legacy in reporting Africa
Salim Amin 

12. Media perspectives: we're missing the story: the media's retreat from foreign reporting
Anjan Sundaram

13. Instagram as a potential platform for alternative Visual Culture in South Africa
Danielle Becker

14. Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back
H. Nanjala Nyabola

15. A "New Ghana" in "Rising Africa"?
Rachel Flamenbaum

PART III: Development and humanitarian stories

16. Media perspectives: is Africa's development story still stuck on aid?
Eliza Anyangwe

17. AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic
Ludek Stavinoha

18. Media perspectives: a means to an end? Creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa
Heba Aly

19. It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals)
Kate Wright

20. Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour
Nicklas Poulsen Viki

21. Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Villages Project
Audrey Ariss, Anya Schiffrin and Michelle Chahine

PART IV: Politics in the representation of Africa

22. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC
Vivien Marsh

23. Media perspectives: new media and African engagement with the global public sphere
Sean Jacobs

24. Shifting power relations, shifting images
Herman Wasserman

25. Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram
Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar

26. Perceptions of Chinese media's Africa coverage
James Wan

27. New imperialisms, old stereotypes
Chris Paterson

28. Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local
Noah Tsika
Index

Relazione

"Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson have assembled the single most important collection of analyses of African media and image in at least a quarter of a century. In practically all respects this volume goes beyond previous, mainly 20th century, northern-centered ways of framing and thinking about Africa's media image and, in their place, carries us well into the 21st century. This is a post-'Africa pessimism' century of African and international narratives of Africa. These are told through an astonishing variety of perspectives, technologies and media platforms. Their audience includes a robust, continent-wide and technology-empowered middle-class. Processes of imperialism and neo-imperialism have not disappeared. But the agents, trajectories and meanings of imperialism are opened to re-assessment."
Oliver Boyd-Barrett, Professor Emeritus, Bowling Green State University, Ohio and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
"This is an excellent book which fills a crucial gap in existing literature. It has a wide range of contributors offering key insights and analysis - a must read for students and academics in development studies as well as those in media and international journalism."
Gregory Philo, Professor of Communications and Social Change, University of Glasgow

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mel (City University London Bunce, Melanie Franks Bunce
• Con la collaborazione di: Mel Bunce (Editore), Mel (City University London Bunce (Editore), Melanie Bunce (Editore), Suzanne Franks (Editore), Suzanne (City University London Franks (Editore), Franks Suzanne (Editore), Chris Paterson (Editore), Chris (University of Leeds Paterson (Editore), Paterson Chris (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 12.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138962323
• ISBN: 978-1-138-96232-3
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: Communication and Society; Communication and Society
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Media, comunicazione > Altro; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Africa, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Regional Geography