Representing school arson in Kenya: An analysis of newspaper reporting

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Global Media and Communication Pub Date : 2020-07-30 DOI:10.1177/1742766520946472

H. Oburu, B. Coetzee, L. Swartz

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Abstract

Arson is a recurrent problem in Kenyan secondary schools. Although school violence – notably gun violence – has received significant attention, there has been less academic attention paid to school arson, especially in Africa. This study explores how newspaper reports in Kenya framed school arson and links these framings to broader questions about the understanding and production of Kenyan identity. A thematic analysis of 334 newspaper reports revealed multiple understandings of school arson. Print media discourse afforded journalists an opportunity to make a commentary on the post-colonial globalized Kenyan society. We discuss the implications of this for understanding post-colonial media in Africa.

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代表肯尼亚学校纵火案:对报纸报道的分析

纵火案是肯尼亚中学经常发生的问题。尽管校园暴力——尤其是枪支暴力——受到了极大的关注，但学术界对校园纵火的关注却很少，尤其是在非洲。本研究探讨肯亚的报纸报导如何诬陷学校纵火案，并将这些诬陷与肯亚身份认同的理解与产生等更广泛的问题连结起来。对334份报纸报道的专题分析揭示了对校园纵火案的多重理解。纸媒话语为记者提供了对后殖民时代全球化的肯尼亚社会进行评论的机会。我们将讨论这对理解非洲后殖民媒体的影响。

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期刊介绍： Global Media and Communication is an international peer-reviewed journal launched in April 2005 as a key forum for articulating critical debates and developments in the continuously changing global media and communications environment. As a pioneering platform for the exchange of ideas and multiple perspectives, the journal addresses fresh and contentious research agendas and promotes an academic dialogue that is fully transnational and transdisciplinary in its scope. With a network of ten regional editors around the world, the journal offers a global source of material on international media and cultural processes. Special features include interviews, reviews of recent media developments and digests of policy documents and data reports from a variety of countries.