让非洲的苦难变得合法:达尔富尔暴行的共建叙事

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION
S. Wahutu
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摘要

尽管在过去的二十年里,人们共同努力了解非洲新闻业在报道非洲大陆事件中的作用和地位,但很少关注记者在报道中选择引用谁作为消息来源。尽管对消息来源的研究对我们理解记者如何获得制作事件报道的“原材料”至关重要。因此,尽管学术界已经开始认真对待非洲对自己的报道,但关注非洲记者作为活动的共同建设者的声音却有所放缓。这种沉默更令人困惑,因为当全球北方报道非洲发生的事件时,学者和观察员一直在批评谁是消息来源。这篇论文表明,通过美国、英国和苏丹的声音组合,非洲观众可以清楚地看到非洲的苦难。具体而言,它发现,非洲记者在构建有关达尔富尔暴行的知识时,与直觉相反,在压制一些非洲声音方面发挥着至关重要的作用。尽管全球北方的新闻领域因其对非洲声音的沉默而受到批评,但非洲记者也同样参与了这种沉默。
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Making African Suffering Legible: Co-Constructing Narrative of the Darfur Atrocities
Although the last two decades have seen a concerted effort to understand the role and place of African journalism in covering events on the continent, there has been little focus on who journalists chose to quote as sources in their stories. This despite scholarship on sources being vital to our understanding of how journalists gain the “raw materials” to produce stories about events. Thus, while scholarship has begun taking Africa's coverage of itself seriously, there has been a slower uptick in focusing on whom African journalists give voice to as co-constructors of events. This silence is even more perplexing, considering that scholars and observers have been critical of who is quoted as a source when the global north covers events unfolding in Africa. This paper shows that African suffering was made legible for African audiences through a combination of American, English, and Sudanese voices. Specifically, it finds that African journalists are –counterintuitively - vital players in silencing some African voices in their construction of knowledge about the atrocities in Darfur. Despite the criticism leveled at journalism fields in the global north over their perceived silencing of African voices, African journalists are similarly engaged in this silencing as well.
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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