TY  - GEN
T1  - Media and identity in Africa
T2  - International African seminars ;
A2  - Middleton, John, 1921-2009
A2  - Njogu, Kimani
LA  - English
PP  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn430840333
AB  - Studies of the media in Africa, incorporating both African and international perspectives, are few. The thirty papers collected here were presented at a seminar organised and hosted by the Kenya-based Twaweza Communications and the International African Institute in Nairobi in 2004. They demonstrate how media outlets are used to perpetuate, question or modify the unequal power relations between the North and the South. Focusing on east Africa, the papers include discussions of the construction of old and new social entities, as defined by class, gender, ethnicity, political and economic differences, wealth, poverty, cultural behaviour, language and religion. The authors illustrate how there is increasing control by local people of traditional and modern forms of media. Globalization is being countered by local responses, within the context of social and cultural identities. Essentially, the book describes the tensions between the global and the local, tensions not often discussed in media studies, thus pioneering new debates.
OP  - 333
NO  - Includes index.
CN  - P92.A35 M43 2009eb
SN  - 9780748635214
SN  - 0748635211
SN  - 9786612136535
SN  - 6612136537
SN  - 9780748635221
SN  - 074863522X
KW  - Mass media : Africa.
KW  - Mass media : Social aspects : Africa.
KW  - Mass media : Political aspects : Africa.
KW  - Médias : Afrique.
KW  - Médias : Aspect social : Afrique.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Media Studies.
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Mass media : Political aspects
KW  - Mass media : Social aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - Electronic book.
ER  -