1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455282803321

Titolo

Media and identity in Africa [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Kimani Njogu and John F.M. Middleton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-7486-5301-5

1-282-13653-4

9786612136535

0-7486-3521-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Collana

International African seminars

Altri autori (Persone)

MiddletonJohn <1921-2009>

NjoguKimani

Disciplina

302.23096

Soggetti

Mass media - Africa

Mass media - Social aspects - Africa

Mass media - Political aspects - Africa

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PROLOGUE; PART I THE MEDIA, COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY; 1 Karin Barber ORALITY, THE MEDIA AND NEW POPULAR CULTURES IN AFRICA; 2 Paul Tiyambe Zeleza THE MEDIA IN SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICA; 3 Alamin Mazrui LANGUAGE AND THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: BETWEEN THE OLD EMPIRE AND THE NEW; 4 Goretti Linda Nassanga REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDIA IN AFRICA: STRANGERS IN A MIRROR?; 5 Francis B. Nyamnjoh AFRICA'S MEDIA: DEMOCRACY AND BELON; 6 John Kiarie Wa'Njogu REPRESENTATION OF AFRICAIN THE WESTERN MEDIA: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

7 Eric Masinde Aseka MEDIA CONSUMERISM AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION8 Macharia Munene AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN A HOSTILE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT; PART II THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE GLOBAL MEDIA; 9 Cecilia Kimani PUBLISHING IN AFRICA; 10 Birgit Meyer PENTECOSTALISM AND MODERN AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA; 11 Kimani Njogu REKINDLING EFFICACY: STORYTELLING FOR HEALTH; 12 Charles Ngome



THE MEDIA IN EDUCATION; 13 Ann Biersteker HORN OF AFRICA AND KENYA DIASPORA WEBSITES AS ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SOURCES; 14 John Collins POPULAR DANCE MUSIC AND THE MEDIA

15 Abdalla Uba Adamu MEDIA PARENTING AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEDIA IDENTITIES IN NORTHERN NIGERIAN MUSLIM HAUSA VIDEO FILMSPART III THE MEDIA AND IDENTITY: THE LOCAL MEDIA; 16 Heike Behrend 'TO MAKE STRANGE THINGS POSSIBLE': THE PHOTOMONTAGES OF THE BAKOR PHOTO STUDIO IN LAMU, KENYA; 17 Kelly M. Askew MUSICAL IMAGES AND IMAGINATIONS: TANZANIAN MUSIC VIDEOS; 18 Bantu Mwaura POLITICAL RIDICULE: MEDIATIZED NOTIONS OF 'TRANSPARENT CONCEALMENT'; 19 Michelle Gilbert NAMES, CLOTH AND IDENTITY: A CASE FROM WEST AFRICA; 20 Simiyu Wandibba MUSEUMS IN AFRICA

21 Walter Bgoya LITERARY PRIZES, BOOK PRIZES AND AFRICAN WRITING22 Mbugua wa MungaiI NNOVATING 'ALTERNATIVE' IDENTITIES: NAIROBI MATATU CULTURE; 23 Patrick Gathara and Mary Kabura Wanjau BRINGING CHANGE THROUGH LAUGHTER: CARTOONING IN KENYA; 24 Diane M. Ciekawy DEMONIC TRADITION: REPRESENTATIONS OF OATHING IN NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE 1997 CRISIS IN COASTAL KENYA; V. Y. Mudimbe EPILOGUE: IN THE NAME OF SIMILITUDE; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differ



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466468303316

Titolo

Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015 [[electronic resource] ] : 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Gwangju, South Korea, September 16-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Yo-Sung Ho, Jitao Sang, Yong Man Ro, Junmo Kim, Fei Wu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-24078-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 683 p. 357 illus. in color.)

Collana

Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 9315

Disciplina

004.6068

Soggetti

Multimedia information systems

Application software

Optical data processing

Pattern recognition

Data mining

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Multimedia Information Systems

Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)

Image Processing and Computer Vision

Pattern Recognition

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Sommario/riassunto

The two-volume proceedings LNCS 9314 and 9315, constitute the proceedings of the 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2015, held in Gwangju, South Korea, in September 2015. The total of 138 full and 32 short papers presented in these proceedings was carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named: image and audio processing;



multimedia content analysis; multimedia applications and services; video coding and processing; multimedia representation learning; visual understanding and recognition on big data; coding and reconstruction of multimedia data with spatial-temporal information; 3D image/video processing and applications; video/image quality assessment and processing; social media computing; human action recognition in social robotics and video surveillance; recent advances in image/video processing; new media representation and transmission technologies for emerging UHD services. .

3.

Record Nr.

UNICASFER0077168

Autore

Rubin, Zick

Titolo

L'amicizia tra bambini / Zick Rubin ; a cura di Luigia Camaioni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma, : A. Armando, [1981]

Descrizione fisica

158 p. ; 19 cm.

Collana

Lo sviluppo del bambino ; 8

Disciplina

155.418

Soggetti

Psicologia dello sviluppo - Amicizia - Infanzia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia