- 370 pages
- English
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About this book
This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an Africanist conceptual model while highlighting its significance globally.
The editors use biographical and life story interviews to critically review the respondents' interpretations of their key works and arguments in relation to key moments in the field, the continent and globally. Though the book is focussed on recovering pioneering arguments by key thinkers in African media and communication, efforts of individual academics are to be understood in the context of their work with others and within institutions that are networked, locally and globally. By bringing together many of the leading figures of African communication and media studies in a single volume, this book provides a critical corrective to the dearth of knowledge and information about who the key thinkers are and what their key arguments, theories and models for media and communication in African contexts entail.
As such, it will be of interest to scholars of media and communications in Africa, and the global south.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Conversations with boundary-spanning African media scholars: An Introduction
- 1 Doing Journalism and Media Studies in Ghana
- 2 Doing Media Studies in South Africa
- 3 Doing Journalism and Media Studies in Nigeria: Conversation with Ralph Akinfeleye
- 4 Doing Television and Media Studies in Nigeria
- 5 Institutionalising Media Studies in Zimbabwe and South Africa: Conversation with
- 6 Cultural Approaches to Media Studies in South Africa
- 7 Political Economy and Semiotics: Television Studies in South Africa
- 8 Doing Media Studies in Kenya
- 9 Doing Media Studies in Uganda
- 10 Challenging the Single Story: Digital Media and Innovative Storytelling on Africa
- 11 Doing Media Studies and Influencing Policy in Morocco
- 12 Journalism Education, Freedom of Expression, Regulation and Media Development in Africa
- 13 Media Studies, Positionality and Geopolitics of Knowledge
- 14 Doing Media Studies in the Decolonial Turn
- 15 Rethinking Africa's Role in Global Knowledge Production: Conversation with Wisdom Tettey
- 16 Finding Africa in Communication Studies: Incompleteness and Convivial Epistemologies
- 17 Communication as Soul Food: Decolonising the Communication Space
- Reflections on Relational Approaches to Teaching, Research and Praxis: Preliminary Conclusions
- Index