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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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Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 4 (2022), pp. 848-859
"This article seeks to contribute and engage with debates pertaining to epistemology, knowledge production, and positionality of ‘International Communication Studies’ (ICS) in sub-Saharan Africa. The study operates on the assumption that International Communication studies in most Sub-Saharan Af
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Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 177-180
"Ûiiti (‘the treatment’) is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the 'nzevu', a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology
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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War
Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.
"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an
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A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 10-25
"The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s co
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African Data Trusts: New Tools Towards Collective Data Governance?
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.
"This paper discusses whether data trusts are feasible structures in an African context, concluding that there are significant limitations to a straight import of trust models developed elsewhere. It goes on to outline specific considerations that should be prioritised in the development of bottom u
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Collective Memory and the Dutch East Indies: Unremembering Decolonization
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 334 pp.
"This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It offers a new perspective on the cultural history of representing the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies, and maps out how a contested collective memory was shaped. Taking a transdisciplinary appr
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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.
"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
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From “communicating” to “engagement”: Afro-Relationality as a Conceptual Framework for Climate Change Communication in Africa
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 36-50
"This study interrogates the conventional understanding of and practice within mediated climate change communication (CCC) as a forum where transformative ideas on sustainability practices are shaped. Besides the dominance of non-African contexts and epistemologies in literature analyzing the media-
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Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 43-58
"Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermi
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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.
"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
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Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiii, 381 pp.
"This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and c
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African Communication Systems and the Digital Age
London et al.: Routledge (2021), 164 pp.
"African Communication Systems and the Digital Age contextualizes communication by bringing to the table African contributions to the field, examining the importance of African indigenous forms of communication and the intersection of African communication systems and the digital age. The book cover
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Afrika im Blick der Fotografen = Africa in the view of the photographers
Esslingen: Edition Cantz; Edition Völklinger Hütte (2020), 104 pp.
"Today’s discourses on Africa are manifold – as manifold as the images we have of everyday life there. Both are fed by a Western narrative that saddles the “Black Continent” with all kinds of clichés – whether the stuff of dreams or of nightmares. In images that are at times documentary,
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Tradiciones de investigación en diálogo: Estudios sobre comunicación en América Latina y Europa
Ramada (PO): Media XXI; Formalpress (2020), 358 pp.
"El capítulo 1 aborda las corrientes funcionalistas. Con un desarrollo inicial localizado en Estados Unidos, la influencia de esta tradición está presente en actividades académicas, prácticas profesionales y sistemas de comunicación en varios lugares del mundo. Tanius Karam desde México y Ant
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Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2020), 224 pp.
"Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema explores a geopolitically situated set of cultures negotiating unique relationships to colonial history. These particular Singaporean, Malaysian, and Indonesian identities are discussed through a variety of commercial films, art cinema, and experimenta
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Zurückgeben: Über die Restitution afrikanischer Kulturgüter
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2020), 223 pp.
"Oft ging Kolonisation mit dem Raub von Kultur- und Kunstgütern der unterworfenen Bevölkerungen einher. Dabei wird das fremde Kulturerbe – abgeschnitten von seinen spirituellen und historischen Ursprüngen – meist in privaten Sammlungen oder Museen aufbewahrt. Die Objekte dienen als Statussymb
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.
Decolonizing Ebola Rhetorics Following the 2013-2016 West African Ebola Outbreak
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2020), 232 pp.
"Defends the position that, despite the supposed "lessons" that have been learned about the spread of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) after the 2013-2016 West African Ebola outbreak, there remains a need to "decolonize" the rhetorics of Ebola prevention and containment. The author asserts that the failure
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