African Journalism Studies最新文献

{"title":"Partners or Predators? A Corpus-Based Study of China’s Image in South African Media","authors":"Changpeng Huan, Menghan Deng","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1913428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1913428","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article sets out to investigate the image of China in South Africa’s mainstream English-language newspapers in the context of changing dynamics of Sino-SA bilateral relations, and their respective growing ambitions. To do so, this research adopts a corpus-based method to examine discursive mechanism through which China is represented in South African media. Corpus findings transcend the traditional and often oversimplified dichotomy of partner or predator, and recognise the complexities, contradictions, and changing dynamics of Sino-SA relation. Despite increasingly converging visions on matters of continental and global import, chief challenges faced by these two countries are contested interests over issues of BRICS versus African Agenda, weak bilateral political and public trust, and responsible versus irresponsible China. The findings are discussed in relation to China’s pursuit of soft power and SA’s geopolitical ambitions.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"34 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1913428","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46376937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Music and messaging in the African political arena","authors":"Benn L. Bongang","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1896161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1896161","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"131 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1896161","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42559484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tabloid journalism in Africa","authors":"Carolyne M. Lunga","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1898800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1898800","url":null,"abstract":"The growth of research into tabloid journalism shows the important role that this kind of journalism plays in society. Journal articles, reports and books have been published across the globe on wh...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"135 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1898800","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48851932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The (Other) Anglophone Problem: Charting the Development of a Journalism Subfield","authors":"David Cheruiyot","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1939750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1939750","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To mark the 40th Anniversary of African Journalism Studies, it is important to reflect on its contribution to a subfield the journal has built. This essay gives a broad overview of the African journalism subfield’s developments and addresses the journal’s most notable achievements and shortcomings.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"94 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1939750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41348848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Propositions for Decolonising African Journalism and Media Research","authors":"S. Mudavanhu","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1972533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1972533","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, student activists at the University of Cape added their voices to calls for decolonising “postcolonial” Africa that had been happening since the 1950s (Achebe 1958; wa Thiong’o 1986; Mbembe 2001; Ndlovu-Gatsheni 2013, 2015). Students challenged manifestations of White supremacy on the University of Cape Town campus specifically and at other universities more broadly. They demanded for an end to the violence and dehumanisation of Black people at the institution, a critical rethinking of curricula as well as the removal of hurdles in the tenure process for Black faculty among other issues (UCT: Rhodes Must Fall petition 2015). The commentary that follows adds to the above calls by proposing ways African journalism and media research can be decolonised. In most African countries, the media together with academic research were deeply implicated and complicit in the colonial project. They were used by colonial administrators to legitimise settler colonialism. In the media, Africa was depicted as backward, primitive and uncivilised, a “dark continent” desperately in need of civilising and developing (Zaghlami 2016). These representations of the continent were akin to images in Joseph Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness. Achebe (1977, 783) observes that Conrad framed Africa as “‘the other world,’ the antithesis of Europe [...] a place where man’s vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant beastiality”. In these narratives, Africans were dehumanised and pathologised, mostly portrayed as barbarians and the inferior Other. In his 1890 book, In Darkest Africa, journalist, author, explorer and colonial administrator Henry M. Stanley constantly referred to people he met in Africa as savages. Fanon (1963) explains that colonial discourses had very little regard for nuance or texture. Fanon (1963, 150) elaborates that “the ‘nigger’ was a savage, not an Angolan or a Nigerian, but a nigger”. Interestingly, the White, middle-class, able-bodied male was framed as superior, sophisticated, civilised and an embodiment of the norm. Some disciplines like psychology, anthropology and biology were notorious for propping up the milieu of ideas that framed Africans as “the least human of all” (Kessi 2016). Bulhan (2015, 249) explains:","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"126 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60106473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Paradigm Shift in the Work of Arnold de Beer and Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies (1980–2020)","authors":"K. Tomaselli","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1915353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1915353","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the early work of Arnold S. de Beer, a founding scholar of journalism studies in South Africa. Drawing on culturalism and autoethnography, a revisionist analysis examines the maturing perspectives of the author over 45 years of interaction with de Beer. The conceptual opposites negotiated include communication science versus media studies, positivism versus cultural studies, and objectivity versus subjectivity. The narrative focuses on how de Beer with Ecquid Novi (EN), and through his publications, shaped journalistic debates in South Africa from 1980 onwards. The junction where the paths of the two scholars converged is framed within a medieval jousting metaphor. This article continues and reassesses an overview written in similar vein in 2004 by the present author on the occasion of EN’s then 25th anniversary.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"24 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1915353","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43485690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Historicity of Media Regulation in Zambia; Examining the Proposed Statutory Self-Regulation","authors":"Youngson Ndawana, J. Knowles, Christopher Vaughan","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1939749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1939749","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The media in Zambia have been in a state of uncertainty since Zambia reinstated democratic governance in the early 1990s. Despite promising initial steps to deregulate the media that started under President Chiluba’s government in the mid-1990s, achieving these objectives in successive years has proved difficult. Successive governments have exhibited increasing aversion towards free and independent media, instead increasing efforts to regulate. This is significant, because comparisons with Kaunda’s autocratic era before 1991 cast the state in a friendlier light towards the media, defying normative theories. After both the Media Ethics Council of Zambia and Zambia Media Ethics Council (ZAMEC) failed as self-regulatory mechanisms in the mid to late 2000s, current state efforts have turned to create a hybrid statutory self-regulatory framework. This is a challenge because Zambia’s democracy has come under pressure from increasing political intolerance. Furthermore, while media professionals support the idea of regulation to strengthen professionalism, they often disagree on the value of statutory self-regulation and its implications. This study used the In-Depth Interview approach on 23 media professionals and documentary analysis to sketch the history and future implications of media regulation efforts in Zambia. Results show a checkered past but present an even more complicated future. The history of the Independent Broadcasting Authority shows that the proposed statutory self-regulatory framework presents more challenges to the media than ever before. This paper aims to contribute to global media studies and specifically the problems of regulation, the state, and media freedom in an African context.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"59 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1939749","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46118296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Towards a Decolonised South African Journalism History","authors":"Gawie Botma","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1954430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1954430","url":null,"abstract":"A media polemic at the end of 2020 about a revisionist version of South African history, The lie of 1652: A decolonised history of land, by Patric Tariq Mellet, emphasised the challenges faced by p...","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"117 - 120"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1954430","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47369247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“What is the News About Journalism?” An Interview with Arnold S. de Beer","authors":"H. Wasserman","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1940233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1940233","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is in the form of an interview between the Founding Editor of Ecquid Novi: African Journaism Studies, Professor Arnold S. de Beer, and his successor and current Editor-in-Chief, Professor Herman Wasserman. The interview covers the founding of the journal, its development and its current standing in the field, as well as highlights of De Beer's long involvement with the journal.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"106 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47098828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Some Random Thoughts on the South African Communication Association","authors":"K. Tomaselli","doi":"10.1080/23743670.2021.1910855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23743670.2021.1910855","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This autoethnography concludes the author’s trilogy on the history of the South African Communication Association (SACOMM) in this 40th anniversary issue of African Journalism Studies, previously titled as Ecquid Novi, a key player since 1981 within the Association. The author discusses paradigmatic contestations and associated administrative arrangements within SACOMM as indicators of post 2000 university managerialism and performance management, in the context of wider political processes. A discussion of naming of the Association reconsiders SACOMM’s origins and history. The successes of the Association in terms of post-apartheid national policy are examined in terms of SACOMM’s achievements and organisational assumptions. Lessons learned are related briefly to other African associations.","PeriodicalId":54049,"journal":{"name":"African Journalism Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"4 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23743670.2021.1910855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44766894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}