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Zambia African Media Development Initiative (AMDI) research report
No full textThis report is one of 18 produced as part of the African Media Development Initiative Research Project, completed in 2006. Firstly, the study outlines the major media development initiatives that have taken place in the Zambian media and communication landscape since 2000. Secondly, it analyses how key actors view these initiatives, in the light of wider media development programmes unfolding on the African continent. Thirdly, it gives a case study of one particularly insightful media development activity in the country. On the whole, the study concludes that the radio sector has grown since 2000. Television has received little investment because the state has more control over this sector. The past five years have seen a growth in better-coordinated media development initiatives. The content of the media has itself become diversified, but there is still a prepoderance of urban-based, elite voices
The interpretation of conflict: can journalists go further? African issues
No full textSince the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the wake of the bomb-ings of the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, there has been even greater interest in understanding the role of the media in constructing interpretations of conflict. Although his analysis was concerned with the Euro-American context, the questions posed by Hamelink (2003: xxiii) are relevant to the African situation
A conceptually relevant and practically sophisticated journalism syllabus for Africa
No full textOver 35 African journalism educators gathered in Grahamstown, South Africa in September last year, at the invitation of the SAB Ltd-Unesco Chair of Media and Democracy, to present and discuss initial research papers aimed at defining a common vision of journalism education on the African continent. The meeting was held against the backdrop of the bid by Rhodes University, under the auspices of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, to host the 2nd World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC)
Media and information literacy : policy and strategy guidelines
No full textIn the evolving knowledge societies of today, some people are overloaded with information, others are starved for information. Everywhere, people are yearning to freely express themselves,to actively participate in governance processes and cultural exchanges. Universally, there is a deep thirst to understand the complex world around us. Media and Information Literacy (MIL) is a basis for enhancing access to information and knowledge, freedom of expression, and quality education. It describes skills, and attitudes that are needed to value the functions of media and other information providers, including those on the Internet, in societies and to find, evaluate and produce information and media content; in other words, it covers the competencies that are vital for people to be effectively engaged in all aspects of development
Internationalizing Media Studies, Daya Kishan Thussu (Ed.): book review
No full textDebates about the structures and processes of globalisation - along with those of localisation - have important implications for the discipline (or is it still a field?) of media studies. The first implication, framed as a counter-hegemonic resistance to what some might consider to be the totalising tradition of Western media studies scholarship, is that we can no longer continue to look only to Western centres of academe for intellectual edification. The need for a critical deconstruction of Euro-American intellectual centrism, and the need for recognising and thus reconstructing a truly transcultural onto-epistemological agenda for media studies, has become more urgent than ever before
Contextualising journalism education and training in Southern Africa
No full textIn this article it is argued that journalism education in Southern Africa must
contend with defining a new academic identity for itself, extricating itself from
dependency on Western oriented models of journalism education and training,
as this has been a perennial challenge in most of Africa
Media in the service of citizens
Get PDFThis lecture looks at the role of the media in promoting an enhanced citizenship, locating the debate within the discourse of development and freedom. It identifies threats to what can be characterised as a 'media-citizens compact', such as media over-commercialisation. It concludes that public-service media are cardinal to the enjoyment of citizenship rights and freedoms
When journalism is a blunt knife: the global financial crisis
No full textThe ongoing global financial crisis has become a highly mediated event. The coverage of the crisis has given rise to questions about how media represent financial crises. And a more specific question is the extent to which the pattern of media ownership influences media representations
Alternative media: a viable option for Southern Africa?
Get PDFpreprintThe article attempts a historically and culturally based definition of alternative media. It then gives some case studies to illustrate the efficacy of such media forms, apart from highlighting the problems associated with them. It concludes that alternative media emerge to deal with specific ideological projects and, as such, must be viewed as satisfying a specific need at a specific point in time
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