Africa's media image in the 21st century
Subtitle: from the "heart of darkness" to "Africa rising"
By: edited by Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson
Series: Communication and society
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: In mass media; Press coverage; Technological innovations; Journalism; 21st century; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a new Africa's media image? / Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks and Chris Paterson; title: Framing Africa. The international news coverage of Africa: beyond the "single story" / Mel Bunce; title: Media perspectives: in defence of western journalists in Africa / Michela Wrong; title: Reporting and writing Africa in a world of unequal encounters / Francis Nyamonjoh; title: Media perspectives: how does Africa get reported? a letter of concern to 60 minutes / Howard French; title: How not to write about writing about Africa / Martin Scott; title: Bringing Africa home: reflections on discursive practices of domestication in international news reporting on Africa by Belgian television / Stijn Joye; title: The image of Africa from the perspectives of the African diasporic press in the UK / Ola Ogunyemi; title: The image makers. Mediating the distant Other for the distant audience: How do Western correspondents in East and Southern Africa perceive their audience? / Toussaint Nothias; title: Media perspectives: television reporting of Africa 30 years on /  Zeinab Badawi; title: Foreign correspondents in Sub-Saharan Africa: their socio-demographics and professional culture; title: Paulo Nuno Vicente; title: Media perspectives: reflecting on my father's legacy in reporting Africa / Salim Amin; title: We're missing the story: the media's retreat from foreign reporting / Anjan Sundaram; title: Instagram as a potential platform for alternative visual culture in South Africa / Danielle Becker; title: Media perspectives: social media and new narratives: Kenyans tweet back / H. Nanjala Nyabola; title: A "new Ghana" in "Rising Africa"? / Rachel Flamenbaum; title: Development and humanitarian stories. Media perspectives: is Africa's development story still stuck on aid? / Eliza Anyangwe; title: AIDS in Africa and the British media: shifting images of a pandemic / Ludek Stavinoha; title: Media perspectives: a means to an end? creating a market for humanitarian news from Africa / Heba Aly; title: It was a "simple", "positive" story of African self-help (manufactured for a Kenyan NGO by advertising multinationals) / Kate Wright; title: Media perspectives: Africa for Norway: challenging stereotypes using humour / Nikolas Poulsen Viki; title: Bloggers, celebrities, and economists: news coverage of the Millennium Village Project / Audrey Arriss, Anya Schiffrin and Michelle Chahine; title: Politics in the representation of Africa. Africa through Chinese eyes: new frames or the same old lens? African news in English from China Central Television, compared with the BBC /  Vivien Marsh; title: Media perspectives: new media & African engagement with the global public sphere / Sean Jacobs; title: Shifting power relations, shifting images   Herman Wasserman; title: Communicating violence: the media strategies of Boko Haram /  Abdullahi Abubakar; title: Media Perspectives: Chinese media perceptions on the reporting of Africa /  James Wan; title: New imperialisms, old stereotypes / Chris Paterson; title: Nollywood news: African screen media at the intersections of the global and the local / Noah Tsika.