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

• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.23096
• Soggetto topico: Mass media - Africa; Mass media - Social aspects - Africa; Mass media - Political aspects - Africa
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: MiddletonJohn <1921-2009> NjoguKimani
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Media and identity in Africa
• ISBN: 0-7486-5301-5; 1-282-13653-4; 9786612136535; 0-7486-3521-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455282803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International African seminars.