The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Author:   Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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9783030099596


Pages:   497
Publication Date:   15 January 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.801kg
ISBN:  

9783030099596


ISBN 10:   3030099598
Pages:   497
Publication Date:   15 January 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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 Digital Depth, 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.

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Bruce Mutsvairo is Associate Professor in Journalism Innovation at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

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