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1. "New migrants" from the PRC and the transformation of Chinese media : the case of Cambodia / Nyiri Pal -- 2. The conundrum of the "honorary whites" : media and being Chinese in South Africa / Wanning Sun -- 3. An overseas orthodoxy? : shifting toward pro-PRC media in Chinese-speaking Brazil / Josh Stenberg -- 4. Bridge or barrier : migration, media, and the sojourner mentality in Chinese communities in Italy and Spain / Tian Gong -- 5. Unique past and common future : Chinese immigrants and Chinese-language media in France / Nan Dai -- 6. Politics of homeland : hegemonic discourses of the intervening homeland in Chinese diasporic newspapers in the Netherlands / Cindy Cheung-Kwan Chong -- 7. The Chinese diaspora, motherland, and "June fourth" : a discourse analysis of the BBC Chinese "have your say" forum, 2009-13 / Jingrong Tong -- 8. Geo-ethnic storytelling : Chinese-language television in Canada / Shuyu Kong -- 9. Cyber China and evolving transnational identities : the case of New Zealand / Manying Ip and Hang Yin -- 10. Provisional business migrants to western Australia, social media, and conditional belonging / Susan Leong -- 11. Xin Yimin : "new" Chinese migration and new media in a Trinidadian town / Jolynna Sinanan.

From the spoken word to the alphabet -- From the printing press to the digital signal -- Communication flows and flowmations -- Topologies of communication -- Inclusion/exclusion -- Virtuality and scattered gatherings -- Signs, symbols and signals -- The place image -- Internalization/externalization -- Place and the power of communication -- Traces and routines -- Geographies of expressive being-in-place -- Final thoughts

The field has been characterized by enormous expansion and diversification with abundance and popularity not resulting in integration. This contribution ­considers the roots of the discipline to be very long leading back to the enlightenment, early democracy and diverse international sources such as the first freedom of ­information bill in Sweden's Diet in 1766 and the nineteenth century as Hardt (2001) details.Academically the field is something of a sunrise industry comparable even to computer science and biotechnology as Web of Science data (Nordenstreng, 2015) indicates with exponential growth notable from the 1990s. Dramatic increases in publications, students and the blossoming of associations has followed. Dominated by US/English language research, diversification has been felt in approach and focus (Koivisto and Thomas, 2010). Looking back to an earlier phase concerned with modernization is however instructive for example Lerner (1958) or the comments and debate surrounding Berelson (1959). Currently, extremely dispersed ­communication studies is characterized by presentism with gaps such as the absence of national histories of communication research very apparent.Reporting Denis McQuail's thoughts on the conference's headings this ­contribution suggests that traditions of inquiry from social science and literary/cultural studies have not been 'resolved or got together' (Nordenstreng, 2015).

The Turn Towards Doing African Media and Communication Studies in the Pluriverse / Winston Mano and viola c. milton -- Afrokology: Theorising African Media and Communication Studies / Winston Mano and viola c. milton -- Return to the source: Frantz Fanon, Ng¿♭g♯♭ wa Thiong'o, and African media and communication studies / Pier Paolo Frassinelli -- Rethinking African Strategic Communication: Towards a new violence / -- Colin Chasi -- Afrokology and organisational culture: why employees are not behaving as predicted / Elnerine Greeff -- To be or not to be: Decolonising African Media/Communications / Kehbuma Langmia -- Communicating the idea of South Africa / Blessed Ngwenya -- Decolonising communication and media studies: An exploratory reading of views on curricula from around the world / Ylva Rodny-Gumede and Colin Chasi -- Africa on demand:The production and distribution of African narratives through podcasting / Rachel Lara Watson -- The African novel as a global form of communication: African writers on the world stage - Africa's soft power / Mary-Jean Nleya -- Citizen Journalism and Conflict transformation in Africa: Kenyan Netizen' digitized shaping of Kenya's political crises / Toyin Ajao -- Ghetto 'wall-standing': counterhegemonic graffiti in Zimbabwe / Hugh Mangeya -- "Arab Spring" or Arab Winter: Social Media and 21 century Slave Trade in Libya / Kehbuma Langmia; Ashley Lewis & Shamilla Amulega -- The making of an African Media Institution: On Memory and the Airwaves / -- Siyasanga M. Tyali -- Not just benevolent bystanders: The corrosive role of private sector media on the sustainability of public service broadcasting in South Africa / Kate Skinner -- Health Communication in Africa / Elizabeth Lubinga -- The politics of identity, trauma, memory, and decolonisation in Neill Blomkamp's "Chappie" (2015) / Beschara Karam -- Nollywood as Decoloniality / Ikechukwu Obiaya -- Afrokology as a Transdisciplinary Approach to Media and Communication Studies / viola c. milton and Winston Mano.

"The Routledge companion to urban media and communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within media, cultural and urban studies, where a joint focus on communications and cities has made important innovations in how we understand urban space, technology, identity, and community. Exploring the emergence and growing complexity of urban media and communication as the next key theme for both urban and media studies, the book gathers and reviews fast developing knowledge on specific emergent phenomena such as: -reading the city as symbol and text; understanding urban infrastructures as media (and vice-versa); the rise of global cities; urban and suburban media cultures: newspapers, cinema, radio, television and the mobile phone; changing spaces and practices of urban consumption; the mediation of the neighbourhood, community and diaspora; the centrality of culture to urban regeneration; communicative responses to urban crises such as racism, poverty and pollution; the role of street art in the negotiation of 'the right to the city'; city competition and urban branding; outdoor advertising; moving image architecture; 'smart'/cyber urbanism; the emergence of media city production spaces and clusters. Tracing emerging debates and neglected connections between cities and media, this book challenges what we know about contemporary urban living and introduces innovative frameworks for understanding cities, media, and their futures. As such, it will be an essential resource for students and scholars of media and communication studies, urban communication, urban sociology, urban planning and design, architecture, visual cultures, urban geography, art history, politics, cultural studies, anthropology and cultural policy studies, as well as those working with governmental agencies, cultural foundations and institutes, and policy think tanks"--

This article documents a conversation between us that was first published in parallel on our two blogs http://dwmw.wordpress.com and http://fuchs.uti.at/blog. The conversation deals with our assessments of the status of Critical Media and Communication Studies today. We discuss the work of Dallas Smythe, how to study and assess Google, research dimensions of Critical Political Economy of the Media, how important each of these dimensions should be, the role of ideology critique for Critical Political Economy of the Media, the commonalities and differences between Political Economies of the Media and Critical Political Economy of the Media/Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, the role of Karl Marx for Political Economies of the Media, Nicholas Garnham's recent comments on the field of Critical Political Economy of the Media, neoliberalism and capitalist crisis as contexts for Political Economies of the Media. Comments are very welcome on our blogs, URLs to the specific blog postings can be found in the article sections

This article documents a conversation between us that was first published in parallel on our two blogs http://dwmw.wordpress.com and http://fuchs.uti.at/blog. The conversation deals with our assessments of the status of Critical Media and Communication Studies today. We discuss the work of Dallas Smythe, how to study and assess Google, research dimensions of Critical Political Economy of the Media, how important each of these dimensions should be, the role of ideology critique for Critical Political Economy of the Media, the commonalities and differences between Political Economies of the Media and Critical Political Economy of the Media/Critique of the Political Economy of the Media, the role of Karl Marx for Political Economies of the Media, Nicholas Garnham's recent comments on the field of Critical Political Economy of the Media, neoliberalism and capitalist crisis as contexts for Political Economies of the Media. (Publisher summary)

"Communications are changing rapidly around the world, but particularly in Africa, where citizens are embracing digital technologies not only to improve interpersonal communication but also the state of their financial well-being. This book investigates these transformations in Nigeria's booming communication industry. The book traces communications in Nigeria back to pre-colonial indigenous communications, through the development of telecommunications, broadcasting networks, the press, the Nigerian film industry ('Nollywood'), and on to the digital era. At a time when Western voices still dominate the academic literature on communication in Africa, this book is noteworthy in drawing almost exclusively on the expertise of Nigerian-based authors, critique the discipline from their own lens, and providing an important contribution to the decolonization of communication studies. The authors provide a holistic analysis of the sector, encompassing print journalism, broadcast journalism, public relations, advertising, film, development communication, organizational communication, and strategic communications. Analysis of the role of digital technologies is woven throughout the book, concluding with a final section theorising the future of communication studies in Nigeria in the light of the digital media revolution. Robust in its theoretical and methodological underpinnings, this book will be an important reference for researchers of Media and Communication Studies, and those working on Africa specifically"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on contributors -- PART I Big picture considerations: decolonising media and communication studies education in sub-Saharan Africa -- 1 Connecting the dots: decolonising communication and media studies teaching and learning in sub-Saharan Africa -- 2 Towards centring African languages in media and communication courses in postsecondary institutions in Africa -- PART II Rethinking classrooms: implications for students, instructors, and instruction -- 3 Decolonising and reimagining instructor-student relationships in a communication and media studies fourth-level seminar -- 4 De-Westernisation and de-sacralisation as imperatives for the decolonisation of cinema teaching in sub-Saharan Africa -- 5 Decolonising from the margins to the centre: Ghanaian communication classrooms in perspective -- PART III Reflections on curricula and syllabi: possibilities and impossibilities -- 6 Reflections on a decolonised communication and media studies curriculum -- 7 Towards a decolonised human, university, and curriculum: some critical notes -- 8 'An-Other'-centred film curricula: decolonising film studies in Africa -- 9 Decolonising the curricula and the space in Africa: an interdisciplinary approach -- 10 Should curricula be the same? Towards media studies curriculum reforms in Kenya -- 11 Decolonisation deferred? An analysis of the Education 5.0 doctrine, the Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education-approved media and communication curriculum and selected writings by Zimbabwean media academics -- 12 Proposals for a decolonised course outline for a theories and methods course in communication and media studies -- 13 Reformatting and decolonising postsecondary educational priorities in South Africa in view of COVID-19 -- PART IV Beyond classrooms.

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