The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Mutsvairo, Bruce (Editor)
Summary:XXIX, 497 p. 3 illus.
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Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70443-2
Format: Electronic Book
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Media and Communication Studies in Decolonial, Postcolonial and Protest contexts
  • 1. If I were a Carpenter: Reframing debates in Media and Communication Research in Africa, Bruce Mutsvairo
  • 2. Can the subaltern think? The Decolonial turn in Communication Research in Africa, Last Moyo and Bruce Mutsvairo
  • 3. Decolonising Communication & Media Studies Research: a Smash-and-Grabber’s Guide, Colin Chasi
  • 4. Decolonising Communication Studies: Advancing the discipline through fermenting participation studies, Colin Chasi and Ylva Rodny-Gumede
  • 5. Decolonization and Postcoloniality: The Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa, Christian Agbobli and Marie Soleil Frere
  • 6. Researching and Teaching African Media Studies from the “Centre”: Challenges and Opportunities for Epistemic Resistance, Toussant Nothias
  • 7. “An-Other thinking” 1 Film theory: Film Studies and Decolonisation in Africa, Beschara Karam
  • Part II: Conceptualizing and Contextualizing: Lessons and Limitations
  • 8.The Four-leafed Clover: Political Economy as a Method of Analysis, Ruth Teer-Tommaselli
  • 9. The Southern African Spy machine: Emerging Research on Communications Surveillance and Resistance in the Region, Jane Duncan
  • 10. Bridging Critical and Administrative Research Paradigms in the Interest of a Politically Engaged African Research Agenda, Ylva Rodny-Gumede
  • 11.Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes, Susana Salgado
  • 12. The Social is Political: Media, Protest and Change as a challenge to African media research, Herman Wasserman
  • 13. Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below, Mirjam de Bruijn and Inge Brinkman
  • Part III: Cross-disciplinary Approaches in the Digital Age
  • 14. “The Devil is in the Rumba Text.” Commenting on DigitalDepth, Katrien Pype
  • 15. Technopolitics and New Media in Africa, Iginio Gagliardone
  • 16. Interrogating the Culture of Exclusion in the Diasporic Media activity, Everette Ndlovu
  • 17. Law and Innovation in the Somali Territories, Nicole Stremlau
  • Part IV New and Old Media: Perspectives, Methodologies, Developments and Ethics
  • 18. Terrorists’ Social Media Messages: A Critical Analysis of Boko Haram’s Message and Messaging Techniques, Chris Wolumati Ogbondah and Pita Agbese Ogaba
  • 19. Gender Perspectives in Media and Communications Studies in Africa, Kristin Skare Orgeret
  • 20. Mono-method research approach and scholar-policy disengagement in Nigerian communication research, Ayobami Ojebode, Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi, Oyewole Adekunle Oladapo and Obasanjo Joseph Oyedele
  • 21. Ubuntu and the communication-power nexus, Leyla Haidarian-Tavernaro
  • 22. Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research, Suzanne Harris
  • 23. Rethinking Media Research in Africa, Tanja Bosch
  • 24. This Hard Place and That Hard Terrain: Zimbabweans Doing Media and Cultural Studies On or In Zimbabwe Since the mid 1990, Nhamo Mhiripiri
  • 25. BBC and African audience: Insights from ethnography, Muhammed Musa
  • 26. For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis, Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u.