African Communication Systems and the Digital Age
African Communication Systems and the Digital Age

Author: Eno Ime Akpabio

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-21

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 1000342549

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The book covers African communication systems, discussing modes and forms of communication across West, East and Southern Africa and comparing them with traditional and new media. African Communication Systems and the Digital Age contextualizes communication by bringing to the table African contributions to the field, examining the importance of African indigenous forms of communication and the intersection of African communication systems and the digital age. The book covers various concepts, models, theories and classifications of African communication systems, including instrumental communication, types of African music and their communication properties, indigenous writing systems, non-verbal communication, and mythological communication. Through careful analysis of communication in Africa, this book provides insights into the various modes of communication in use prior to the advent of traditional and new media as well as their continued relevance in the digital age. African Communication Systems and the Digital Age will be of interest to students and scholars of African communication.

African Communication Systems
African Communication Systems

Author: Abigail Odozi Ogwezzy

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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Chapters: The concept of communication African communication systems and reasons for studying African communication systems -- African communication systems and mass communication compared -- Classification of the traditional channels of communication in Africa -- Verbal and non-verbal communication : introduction -- Verbal and Non-verbal communication compared -- Overview of visual channels of communication and pigmentation /colours as a group of visual channels -- Appearance: physical look and costume / facial marks and tattoos / records -- Iconographic channels of communication: objectified devices, florals, plants and crops -- The concept of instrumental communication -- Idiophones -- Membraneophones -- Membraneophones in south-west Nigeria -- Aerophones -- The concept of demonstrative communication -- Music -- Dance and song -- Poetry, charts and incantations -- Signals, signs and symbolography.

Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Author: Winston Mano

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-02-12

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1351273191

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This handbook comprises fresh and incisive research focusing on African media, culture and communication. The chapters from a cross-section of scholars dissect the forces shaping the field within a changing African context. It adds critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans first. Decoloniality demands new epistemological interventions in African media, culture and communication, and this book is an important interlocutor in this space. In a globally interconnected world, changing patterns of authority and power pose new challenges to the ways in which media institutions are constituted and managed, as well as how communication and media policy is negotiated and the manner in which citizens engage with increasing media opportunities. The handbook focuses on the interrelationships of the local and the global and the concomitant consequences for media practice, education and citizen engagement in today’s Africa. Altogether, the book foregrounds convivial epistemologies relevant for locating African media and communication in the pluriverse. This handbook is an essential read for critical media, communications, cultural studies and journalism scholars.

Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa
Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa

Author: Festus Eribo

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 9780739103777

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Journalism and Mass Communication in Africa provides the first in-depth analysis of the evolution of mass communication and the impact of new media technologies in Cameroon. Written and edited by African scholars, this volume maps out the changing media ecology of Cameroon and provides practical survey methods for communication research. The work details the impact mass public communication has had on the empowerment of Cameroon's 15 million people and the development of grassroots participatory democracy.

Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean
Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean

Author: Hopeton S. Dunn

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-01-30

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 303054169X

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This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and corporate and cultural renewal. The first section tackles research and technology with new conceptual thinking from the South. The book then looks at emerging approaches to community digital networks, online diaspora entertainment, and video gaming strategies. The volume then explores reforms in policy and professional practice, including in broadcast television, online newspapers, media philanthropy, and business news reporting. Its final section examines the role of village-based folk media, the power of popular music in political opposition, and new approaches to overcoming neo-colonial propaganda and external corporate hegemony. This book therefore engages critically with the central issues of how we communicate, produce, entertain, and build communities in 21st-century Africa and the Caribbean.