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Record Nr.

UNINA9910590073403321

Autore

Frère Marie-Soleil

Titolo

Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa : Systems, Practices and Identities / / by Marie-Soleil Frère

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030993993

9783030993986

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (368 pages)

Disciplina

070.44932

079.6

Soggetti

Africa - Politics and government

Communication in politics

Regionalism

African Politics

Political Communication

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1 The Emergence of Modern Media in Africa -- Chapter 2 Media, Journalists and Ideologies in Independent African Countries -- Chapter 3 Democratic Transitions and the Emergence of Pluralist Media Systems -- Chapter 4 Governments and the Media in French-Speaking Africa -- Chapter 5 Journalists and the Transformation of Professional Identities -- Chapter 6 Changing media economies -- Chapter 7 Media and Audiences in French-Speaking Africa -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different from what they are in neighboring English-speaking African countries, and in the rest of the world. The approach of the media in French-speaking Africa has not only to be “de-Westernized”, but also to step out of general overviews considering “African media." This project shows the historical, political, economic



and sociological characteristics of the media systems of seventeen French-speaking countries of Africa. Marie-Soleil Frere was Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and Director of Research at the National Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels. She passed away on March 2021.