The Palgrave Handbook Of Language And Crisis Communication In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Ernest Jakaza,Hugh Mangeya,Isaac Mhute
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3031430581

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The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ernest Jakaza,Hugh Mangeya,Isaac Mhute Pdf

This handbook provides a detailed and sustained examination of the scope, purpose and practical application of crisis and disaster management communication in this critical region of the African continent, sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The volume lays the foundation that enables a nuanced appreciation of two significant issues. The first pertains to SSA’s vulnerability to both natural and man-made phenomena. Secondly, it argues that communication plays a critical role in so far as the identification, social construction, raising awareness, preparation, mitigation and eradication of crises and disasters in the region. Communication plays a critical role in potentially reducing the impacts of crises and disasters before their occurrence. This handbook is a key resource for academics, students and practitioners in areas such as political communication, media communication, language and communication, brand communication, social/digital media communication, and crisis communication, among others.

Author : Ernest Jakaza
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031430596

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The Palgrave Handbook of Language and Crisis Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa by Ernest Jakaza Pdf

Author : Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319704432

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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa by Bruce Mutsvairo Pdf

This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Western and Eurocentric discourses of knowledge-production. As the decolonial turn takes centre stage across Africa, this collection further rethinks media and communication research in a post-colonial setting and provides empirical evidence as to why some of the methods conceptualised in Europe will not work in Africa. The result is a thorough appraisal of the current threats, challenges and opportunities facing the discipline on the continent.

Author : C. Chasi
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137491280

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HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa by C. Chasi Pdf

Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicable to the crisis of HIV/AIDS.

Author : Abiodun Salawu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000224016

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African Language Media by Abiodun Salawu Pdf

This edited volume considers why the African language press is unstable and what can be done to develop quality African language journalism into a sustainable business. Providing an overview of the African language journalism landscape, this book examines the challenges of operating sustainable African language media businesses. The chapters explore the political economy and management of African language media and consider case studies of the successes and failures of African language newspapers, as well as the challenges of developing quality journalism. Covering print and digital newspapers and broadcast journalism, this book will be of interest to scholars of media and journalism in Africa.

Author : Isaac Mhute,Esther Mavengano
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031443195

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Governance, Language Policy and Political Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa by Isaac Mhute,Esther Mavengano Pdf

This book examines the role of language and communication in transforming politics and governance in southern Africa. Interdisciplinary in approach, it covers themes including marketing, political advertising, activism, violence, elections, and the media. It combines theoretical works with individual case studies on Lesotho, Tanzania, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and Ghana. It will appeal to all those interested in public policy, governance and political communication, as well as linguistics, media studies and African politics.

Author : Isaac Mhute,Esther Mavengano
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3031484304

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Media, Literature and Political Communication in Sub-Saharan Africa by Isaac Mhute,Esther Mavengano Pdf

This book examines the role of the media and literature in transforming politics and governance in southern Africa. Drawing inspiration from Critical Language Policy theory, it demonstrates how politicians utilise language and the media to legitimate their authority, influence citizens’ behaviour, and how they vote. Interdisciplinary in approach, it covers themes including marketing, political advertising, activism, violence, elections, and the media. It appeals to all those interested in public policy, governance and political communication, as well as linguistics, media studies and African politics.

Author : Lena von Naso
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351271783

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The Media and Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa by Lena von Naso Pdf

News coverage on Africa is closely connected not only with how Western audiences see the continent, but also with how a wide Western audience builds its opinion on issues that carry consequences for the public's and governments' support and policy towards development aid. The Western media reinforce a picture of a continent that drowns in chaos, is dominated by conflicts, diseases, corruption and failed democratisation. Whose interests lie behind that? How does foreign news on sub-Saharan Africa emerge, which actors are relevant in its making, and on the basis of what interests do these actors shape the coverage that is then presented as 'neutral information' to a broad international audience? Closely examining the relationship between foreign correspondents of international news media and humanitarian organisations, Lena von Naso shows how the aid and media sectors cooperate in Africa in a unique way. Based on more than 70 interviews with foreign correspondents and aid workers operating across Africa, the book argues that the changing nature of foreign news and of aid is forcing them to form a deep co-dependency that is having a serious and largely unnoticed effect on Western news coverage. This comprehensive examination of a new paradigm will interest students and scholars of media and journalism, African studies, development and humanitarian studies and the aid and media communities operating across Africa.

Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781800412316

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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa by Leketi Makalela,Goodith White Pdf

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. It offers a paradigm of language merging that provides a blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Author : Carol Azungi Dralega,Angella Napakol
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781803822716

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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa by Carol Azungi Dralega,Angella Napakol Pdf

This critical research collection focuses on Eastern and Southern Africa providing timely and valuable insights and reflections around the changes and stabilities within media ecosystems caused by the novel Covid-19 crises.

Author : Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351273190

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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies by Winston Mano,Viola c. Milton Pdf

This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.

Author : Jan Servaes,Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031194597

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SDG18 Communication for All, Volume 2 by Jan Servaes,Muhammad Jameel Yusha'u Pdf

The 2030 agenda for development, or what is known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is perhaps the most ambitious agenda collectively agreed upon by 193 countries in human history. Yet, the framers of the 2030 agenda for development forgot to dedicate one goal focused on the role of communication in achieving the SDGs. Such oversight has attracted the attention of media and communication scholars alike, journalists, and policymakers who understand that it is nearly impossible to achieve the SDGs without the articulation and embrace of the role of communication in development. Volume 2 provides in-depth and specific explorations into regional perspectives concerning communication and the SDGs, with research on a rich array of sources, including Latin America, Africa, Australia, as well as special cases relating to timely studies such as social media, COVID-19, marginalized voices, and women's equality.

Author : Bruce Mutsvairo,Beschara Karam
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030096688

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Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa by Bruce Mutsvairo,Beschara Karam Pdf

This edited collection is a cutting-edge volume that reframes political communication from an African perspective. Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, the collection gives space to previously understudied regions of sub-Saharan Africa and challenges the over-reliance of western scholarship on political communication on the continent.

Author : Abiodun Salawu,Monica Chibita,Sarantakos
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137547294

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Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa by Abiodun Salawu,Monica Chibita,Sarantakos Pdf

This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Africans will be excluded from public discourse.

Author : Phillip Mpofu,Israel Ayinla Fadipe,Thulani Tshabangu
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9819903041

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Indigenous African Language Media by Phillip Mpofu,Israel Ayinla Fadipe,Thulani Tshabangu Pdf

The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research. It serves as a compendium of experiences, activities and case studies on the use of native language media. Chapters in this book make theoretical, methodical and empirical contributions about indigenous African language media that are affected by structural factors of politics, technology, culture and economy and how they are creatively produced and appropriated by their audiences across African cultures and contexts. This book explores indigenous African language media about media representations, media texts and contents, practice-based activities, audience reception and participation, television, popular culture and cinema, peace and conflict resolution, health and environmental crisis communication, citizen journalism, ethnic and identity formation, beat analysis and investigative journalism, and corporate communication. There are hardly any similar works that focus on the various issues relating to this body of knowledge. The book provides a valuable companion for scholars in various fields like communication, media studies, African studies, African languages, popular culture, journalism, health and environmental communication.