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The handbook of global interventions in communication theory
New York; London:
Routledge
(2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
ISBN 978-1-00-053620-1 (ebook); 978-0-367-48620-4 (print)
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver...
Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Routledge
(2021), xiv, 286 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-351-27320-6 (ebook); 978-1-138-57477-9 (print)
"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 ...
The evolution of popular communication in Latin America
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2021), xv, 234 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-62557-3 (ebk); 978-3-030-62556-6 (print); 978-3-030-62558-0 (print)
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy...
The decolonial turn in media studies in Africa and the Global South
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2020), xvi, 308 pp.
ISBN 978-3-030-52832-4 (ebook); 978-3-030-52831-7 (print); 978-3-030-52833-1 (print); 978-3-030-52834-8 (print)
"This book develops a nuanced decolonial critique that calls for the decolonization of media and communication studies in Africa and the Global South. Last Moyo argues that the academic project in African Media Studies and other non-Western regions continues to be shaped by Western modernity's histo...
De-Westernizing visual communication and cultures: perspectives from the Global South
Baden-Baden:
Nomos
(2020), 225 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8487-6577-5 (print); 978-3-7489-0693-3 (online)
"This edited volume gives voice to pluralised avenues from visual communication and cultural studies regarding the Global South and beyond, including examples from China, India, Cambodia, Brazil, Mexico and numerous other countries. Defining visual communication and culture as an umbrella term that ...
Comparative media studies in Africa: challenges and paradoxes
In: The Palgrave handbook of media and communication research in Africa
Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham:
Palgrave Macmillan
(2018), pp. 195-211
ISBN 978-3-319-70442-5 (print); 978-3-319-70443-2 (ebk)
"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont...
De-colonialidad en la era tecnomediática: intersecciones teóricas, contextos y procesos de comunicación
CIESPAL
(2018), 150 pp., bibliogr. p.144-150
ISBN 978-9978-55-180-6
CC BY-ND
"La obra que sigue a continuación invita a un ejercicio de relectura de los procesos de modernidad-colonialidad desde la perspectiva teórica basada en el giro decolonial. El objetivo es presentar una discusión teórica que permita comprender y dar respuesta a las relaciones culturales en conflict...
De-centring Western enlightenment: revisionist histories, contestation and communication theory
Javnost: the public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440
Non-Western theories of communication: indigenous ideas and insights
In: Intercultural Communication
Ling Chen (ed.)
Berlin; Boston:
De Gruyter Mouton
(2017), pp. 67-98
"This chapter presents an overview of non-Western communication theories for cross-cultural and intercultural research. The chapter specifically focuses on selected Afrocentric and Asiacentric theories of communication because they represent communication theories whose ideas and insights spring fro...
Postcolonial studies meets media studies: a critical encounter
Bielefeld:
transcript
(2016), 262 pp.
ISBN 978-3-8376-3294-1 (pbk); 978-3-8394-3294-5 (online)
"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony...
Decolonizing communication for social change: a culture-centered approach
Communication theory, volume 25, issue 2 (2015), pp. 123-143
"The role of communication in planned social change is portrayed as a linear conduit for inducing pro-development behavior change in the "undeveloped" world. Later versions of social change communication started incorporating culture and participation into multicultural participatory development pro...
Internationalizing "international communication"
Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press
(2015), vi, 332 pp., index
ISBN 978-0-472-90014-5
CC BY-NC-ND
African ethics and journalism ethics: news and opinion in light of Ubuntu
Journal of media ethics, volume 30, issue 2 (2015), pp. 74-90
"In this article, I address some central issues in journalism ethics from a fresh perspective, namely, one that is theoretical and informed by values salient in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a foundational moral theory with an African pedigree, which is intended to rival Western theories such as Ka...
The three alternative journalisms of Africa
International communication gazette, volume 74, issue 7 (2012), pp. 636-654
"Much African journalism scholarship has had a critical stand towards ‘Western’ journalism models. The criticism has resulted in the submission of alternative African journalism models such as ujamaa journalism, ubuntu journalism and oral discourse journalism. The present article reviews a numbe...
Towards a theory of communication for Africa: the challenges for emerging democracies
communicatio: South African journal for communication theory and research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20
"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of...
China in Africa: a new approach to media development?
Oxford; London:
Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research
(2010), 21 pp., bibliogr. p.21
"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi...
Communication theory: the Asian perspective
Singapore:
Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC)
(1988), xiv, 214 pp.
ISBN 9971-905-29-9
"Many of the essays in this volume seek to interpret traditional Asian approaches to communication in the light of modern Western concepts. At one level, this might appear to compromise the integrity of the Asian approaches. However, it needs to be stressed that this is a calculated strategy on the ...
Third World film making and the West
Berkeley:
University of California Press
(1987), xiii, 381 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.327-361, index
ISBN 0-520-05667-1; 0-520-05690-6
"This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output ...
