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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.
"This book responds to mounting calls to broaden the theorization of digital journalism, addressing critical questions about an emerging yet rapidly expanding area of study, and presenting multiple entry points and approaches that help us understand digital journalism better. Seeking to establish it
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The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xxiv, 491 pp.
"Responding to mounting calls to decenter and decolonize journalism, The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South examines not only the deep-seated challenges associated with the historical imposition of Western journalism standards on constituencies of the Global South but also the opp
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Constraints on Journalistic Practices in the Arab World Post–Arab Spring and Post-Covid-19
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 179-186
"Over a decade ago, the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings erupted in six Arab countries. They were accompanied, initially, by high hopes for democratic transformation and reform (Lynch, 2012). These hopes and aspirations also included widening the margin of freedom of expression in general and press freedo
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Journalism in Cameroon: A High-Risk and Dangerous Profession?
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 461-476
"These are challenging times for practicing journalism safely in Cameroon. Death in pretrial detention is one extreme form of silencing journalists, although arbitrary arrests, intimidation, harassment, and trumped-up charges are also used, not only during turbulence and armed conflicts, but also in
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Reporting the MENA as Conflict: Political Influences, Routine Practices, and Journalists' Struggles in the Field
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 260-268
"Working in a conflict-ridden region, journalists in the Middle East have always struggled to report fairly and accurately while keeping in mind the power structures in their countries. For these journalists, practicing journalism in mostly authoritative governments has meant facing additional hurdl
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Women Journalists in Mexico: They Will Not Silence Our Voices
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 378-387
"What are the challenges that Mexican women journalists face in a hostile environment for the press? Mexico is one of the deadliest countries in which to practice journalism. More than 160 reporters have been assassinated since 2000. Within this context, female journalists face a four-layered challe
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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Media and Communication in Nigeria: Conceptual Connections, Crossroads and Constraints
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xv, 272 pp.
"The book traces communication in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communication, through the development of telecommunication, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian flm industry (‘Nollywood’) and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic li
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Mapping the Digital Divide in Africa: A Mediated Analysis
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp.
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app
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Data Journalism in the Global South
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxxv, 334 pp.
"This volume seeks to analyse the emerging wave of data journalism in the Global South. It does so by examining trends, developments and opportunities for data journalism in the aforementioned contexts. Whilst studies in this specific form of journalism are increasing in numbers and significance, th
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Mobile Phone Communication in the Mobile Margins of Africa: The ‘Communication Revolution’ Evaluated from Below
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 225-241
"In this chapter we have offered an interpretation of the first twenty years of mobile telephony in marginal zones in Africa. With case-studies from central Mali, anglophone Cameroon and south-east Angola, we focused on the changes in both communication and mobility patterns, specifically in connect
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Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 195-211
"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
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Post-Coloniality and Path Dependency: Challenges at Stake in Media and Communication Research in Francophone Africa
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 73-94
"In this chapter, we demonstrate the challenges inherent in the process of truly overcoming coloniality in Francophone Africa. As we analyze the progressive institutionalization of the field through the creation of journalism schools and training centers, research networks and academic journals, we
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"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 Wester
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For the Attention of African Media Scholars: An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 465-482
"What this chapter does is to see critical disourse analysis (CDA) as a method of critical enquiry in communication research that is beyond traditional academic analysis. The chapter looks at CDA as a Western-originated paradigm of social enquiry with a difference. As I will discuss in subsequent se
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Questioning the Role of Foreign Aid in Media System Research
In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 401-412
"While the internal dynamics or the role of the state has had a significant bearing on how media systems evolve and change, both internal and external factors have contributed to the type of media that exists in Malawi today. Although Hallin and Mancini did not include at length the role of external
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Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp.
"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 Moza
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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis
Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.
"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
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London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xv, 341 pp.
"This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a powerful platform used by pr
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