Media and democracy in Africa
By: Goran Hyden, Michael Leslie, and Folu F. Ogundimu, editors.
Contributors: Hydén, Göran, 1938-; Leslie, Michael.; Ogundimu, Folu Folarin.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Mass media -- Political aspects -- Africa -- Congresses; Democracy -- Africa -- Congresses; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"An outgrowth from an international conference organized in March 1997 in the honor of the late Gwendolen Carter who was associated with the Center for African Studies at the University of Florida"--Pref.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Communications and Democratization in Africa 1; title: Goran Hyden and Michael Leslie; title: 2. The Media and the Two Waves of Democracy 29; title: Goran Hyden and Charles Okigbo; title: 3. Media Laws in Political Transition 55; title: Chris W. Ogbondah; title: 4. Broadcasting and Political Reform 81; title: Paul R. van der Veur; title: 5. The Internet and Democratization 107; title: Michael Leslie; title: 6. Media Ownership and Democratization 129; title: Keyan Tomaselli; title: 7. African Politics and American Reporting 157; title: Beverly G. Hawk; title: 8. Alternative Small Media and Communicative Spaces 177; title: Debra Spitulnik; title: 9. Media and Democracy in Twenty-First-Century Africa 207; title: Folu Folarin Ogundimu.