Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe

Author: Bruce Mutsvairo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-29

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 149859977X

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Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe provides an empirical analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas T. Muneri examine the intersection between journalism, democracy, and human rights to historicize and critique past successes and failures that have played out in Zimbabwe’s past, as well as interrogate future challenges that await the nation’s quest for democratization. The authors examine what role citizen journalists, human rights activists, professional journalists, and social media dissents could potentially play toward ending the country’s current adversity. Scholars of journalism, media studies, communication, African studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.

Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World
Development Naivety and Emergent Insecurities in a Monopolised World

Author: Munyaradzi Mawere

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2018-09-17

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 995655099X

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It is common knowledge that development without security is like a runaway horse. Yet, development in Africa has been plagued by insecurities since the extractive periods of slave trade and colonialism. In spite of political independence and the euphoria of sovereignty as states, Africa has failed to address insecurity, which continues to loom large and to threaten aspirations towards truly inclusive and sustainable development. A consequence has been Africas development naivety vis--vis the monopolisation of development by the predatory elite actors of the global North and their local facilitators. To salvage the continent from such predation and the insecurities engendered requires novel and innovative imagination and praxis. This book draws from both the haunted landscapes and bitter memories of past exploitations and from the feeding of the insatiable North with African resources and humanity. It brings together essays by a concerned generation of scholars driven by the urgent need for radical decolonisation of African development and its legacies of insecurities. It is handy to students and practitioners in economics, policy studies, political science, development studies, global and African studies.

African Media and the Digital Public Sphere
African Media and the Digital Public Sphere

Author: O. Mudhai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-05-25

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0230621759

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This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.

Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age
Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age

Author: Mhiripiri, Nhamo A.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 1522520961

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The growing presence of digital technologies has caused significant changes in the protection of digital rights. With the ubiquity of these modern technologies, there is an increasing need for advanced media and rights protection. Media Law, Ethics, and Policy in the Digital Age is a key resource on the challenges, opportunities, issues, controversies, and contradictions of digital technologies in relation to media law and ethics and examines occurrences in different socio-political and economic realities. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on cybercrime, invasion of privacy, and muckraking, this publication is an ideal reference source for policymakers, academicians, researchers, advanced-level students, government officials, and active media practitioners.

Gender, Popular Culture and Media Freedom
Gender, Popular Culture and Media Freedom

Author: Saeanna Chingamuka

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1920550569

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This edition of the Gender and Media Diversity Journal (GMDJ) focuses on freedom of expression. The theme is mainly informed by the 2011 Windhoek +20 celebrations of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting Independent and Pluralistic Media, the recent debates on access to information and how freedom of expression is understood in today's society. The use of ICTs in order to enjoy freedom of expression is also tackled in this issue.

Tabloid Journalism and Press Freedom in Africa
Tabloid Journalism and Press Freedom in Africa

Author: Brian Chama

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 3030488683

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This book studies tabloid journalism newspapers within the broader context of press freedom in Africa. After defining tabloid journalism and professional practices within various political contexts, the book then proceeds to consider tabloids in Southern Africa and emerging cyberspace laws. Many factors of press freedom are considered, including the impact of public order and national security laws on tabloids in North Africa, the impact of defamation laws on tabloids in West Africa, the impact of the fake news laws on tabloids in East Africa, and the impact of sedition and treason laws on tabloids in Central Africa. Exploring tabloid journalism and press freedom in Arabic, Portuguese, and Francophone speaking countries across Africa, this book is a unique addition to this emerging field. The book concludes by providing a synthesis of the developing patterns from the cases analysed and by looking to the future to make recommendations and map the challenges and the successes.

Journalism and Ethics
Journalism and Ethics

Author: Information Resources Management Association

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781787855946

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Journalism and Ethics: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice examines the impacts of journalism on society and the media's responsibility to accurately inform citizens of government and non-government activities in an ethical manner.