Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-95102-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 283 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as mental health---simmering across the subcontinent. The chapters fill knowledge gaps, highlight innovations, unpack the complexities surrounding the media ecosystem in times of health crises. They explore, among other issues, the politics of public health communication; infodemics; existential threats to media viability; draconian legislations; threats to journalists/journalism; COVID-related entrepreneurship, marginalization, and more.

This is a timely resource for academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners and policy makers working on crises and media reporting, not just in Africa but anywhere in the global South.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dralega, Carol Azungi

Napakol, Angella

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I Digital and Political Economy of the Media. - The Sustainability and Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Media Houses in Uganda and Ethiopia. - Political Economy of COVID-19 and the Implication on Media Management and Sustainability in Nigeria. - The Impact of COVID-19 on the Digitalization of the Namibian Media. - Media Viability, Covid-19 and the ‘Darwinian’ Experience in Southern Africa: Glimpses from Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. - Part II Journalism Practice, Audiences and News Discourses. - Critical Journalism and Media Convergence During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Representation of Corruption in Zimbabwean Online News. - Constructive Journalism and COVID-19 Safe Nation Narratives in The Herald Newspaper: Implications for Journalism Ethics in Zimbabwe. - Endangered Voices: Nigerian Journalists’ Safety amid the COVID-19 Pandemic. - Framing Poverty in Nigerian Online Media Reportson the Inaugural Neglected Tropical Diseases Day. - Face-to Face with COVID-19: Experiences of Ghanaian Frontline Journalists Infected with the Virus. - A Comparative Discourse Analysis of African Newspaper Reports on Global Epidemics: A Case Study of Ebola and Coronavirus. - Citizen Journalism and Health Communication in Pandemics’ Prevention and Control. - ‘This Is a Punishment to America’ Framing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe’s Mainstream Media. - Part III Regulation, Representation and Marginalisation. - Cybercrimes Law and Citizen Journalism Clampdown During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Tanzania. - Framing the AIDS Discourse: A Critic of Journalistic Source Norms in Uganda’s HIV and AIDS Print News. - ‘Weapons of Oppressors’: COVID-19 Regulatory Framework and its Impact on Journalism Practices in Southern Africa. - Media Discourses on Gender in the Time of COVID-19 Pandemic in Zimbabwe.

Über Autor(innen)

Carol Azungi Dralega (PhD) is an Associate Professor and Head of Research at the Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, NLA University College in Norway. She teaches in the MA program in Global Journalism. Carol, who is originally from Uganda and a former journalist/editor with Uganda’s two leading media houses, holds an MPhil/PhD from the Media Studies Institute, University of Oslo. She is a researcher at the Nordic Center of Excellence (Uppsala University) as well as a member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Dralega is a founding member of the Global Journalism Community which launched in March 2021. Her research interests include; ICT/media and issues around journalism practice, policy, marginalization and social change.
Angella Napakol (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer and Head the School of Communication, Uganda Christian University. She holds a PhD from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, an MS in Mass Communication from North Dakota State University, USA, and a BA in Social Sciences from Makerere University, Uganda. She teaches in both undergraduate and graduate communication and journalism programs at the Faculty of Journalism, Media and Communication. Her key research interests include: health communication; humanitarian, risk and crisis communication; social change communication and intercultural communication.