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China, Africa, and the Future of the Internet
Top Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xi, 192 pp.
"Featuring a wealth of interviews with a variety of actors – from Chinese and African journalists in Chinese media to Chinese workers for major telecommunication companies – this highly original book demonstrates how China is both contributing to the 'Africa rising' narrative while exploiting th
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The Implications for Democracy of China’s Globalizing Media Influence
In: Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral
Freedom House (2019), pp. 8-15
"Chinese authorities influence news media content around the world through three primary strategies: promoting the CCP’s narratives, suppressing critical viewpoints, and managing content delivery systems. These efforts have already undercut key features of democratic governance and best practices
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Media Development, DAC, and China: Different Approaches, Same Public Diplomacy
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-37
"More than US $441 million was spent on media development worldwide in 2012, with African countries receiving 28% of that amount. This funding came from a variety of sources, including both established Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and emerging donors such as China. These countrie
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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 237 pp.
"This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media."
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Intersections Between Public Diplomacy and International Development: Case Studies in Converging Fields
Los Angeles: Figueroa Press; USC Center on Public Diplomacy (2016), 178 pp.
The Other Air Force: U.S. Efforts to Reshape Middle Eastern Media Since 9/11
New Brunswick, New Jersey, London: Rutgers University Press (2016), ix, 216 pp.
"As it seeks to win the hearts and minds of citizens in the Muslim world, the United States has poured millions of dollars into local television and radio programming, hoping to generate pro-American currents on Middle Eastern airwaves. However, as this fascinating new book shows, the Middle Eastern
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Free Expression, Globalism, and the New Strategic Communication
New York: Cambridge University Press (2015), ix, 275 pp.
"Vast changes in technologies and geopolitics have produced a wholesale shift in the way states and other powerful entities think about the production and retention of popular loyalties. Strategic communication has embraced these changes as stakes increase and the techniques of information managemen
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Re-Orienting the 'Charm Offensive' to the 'Charm Defensive': A Critical Review of Chinese Media Development in Africa
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 135-140
"All in all, Chinese media development in Africa can be considered as a ‘charm offensive‘ in terrns of its scale and scope, which is characterised by the following: 1) all the projects are mainly government sponsored, strategically engineered and efficiently irnplemented; 2) projects centre arou
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Changing the Narrative: China‘s Media Offensive in Africa
Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 9 pp.
"China’s media offensive in Africa is an expression of the need to create advantageous conditions for its own trade relations and for strategic alliances, for example in international organizations. At the same time, China’s global charm offensive or »charm defensive« is also a reaction to wha
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China in Africa's Media and Telecommunications: Cooperation, Connectivity and Control
Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre (NOREF) (2014), 6 pp.
"China is changing Africa’s media sphere. The country supports African broadcasters with loans, training, and exchange programmes and has set up its own media operations on the continent, creating an African arm of the state-run broadcaster CCTV and expanding existing initiatives, such as the stat
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Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 Transition: Lessons from the United States and the Netherlands
The Hague: Netherlands Institute of International Relations 'Clingendael' (2013), 25 pp.
"The end of the security transition process in Afghanistan in 2014 marks the need to rethink foreign public diplomacy efforts in the country. As Afghanistan is entering its ‘transformational decade’, there is a unique opportunity to disconnect public diplomacy from the military–security paradi
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The Rise of China’s State-Led Media Dynasty in Africa
Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2012), 31 pp.
"Traces China's media engagement in Africa since the 2000s, including a list of financed projects (pp. 13-15), and explains how strategies have changed. While the extension of hardware assistance continues to play an important role, China's media engagement in Africa started to diversify after the 2
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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.
"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
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China in the African Mediascape: A Critical Injection
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 1, issue 3 (2009), pp. 343-361
"This study sets out to historically contextualize Chinese support to the African mediascape, arguing that contemporary Chinese media interventions in Africa must be seen as part of China's long history of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggle in its project of national and international identifi
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