Climate Change Communication in Africa

Emerging Trends and Practices
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-11482-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge African Media, Culture and Communication Studies

This groundbreaking collection explores the complex intersections of communication and climate change in Africa.

From legacy media’s framing of climate narratives to the mobilising potential of digital media, the volume examines the multi-faceted ways in which climate change is mediated through different communication channels and how different media can be harnessed to amplify African voices on climate change. Drawing on a broad range of theoretical and methodological approaches, case studies cover all regions of the continent, providing a nuanced examination of how the media shape our understanding of and responses to climate change in Africa. Contributions scrutinise different facets of climate change communication, providing illuminating accounts on pitfalls in climate change communication, climate justice communication strategies, social media activism and climate change, and datafication of climate change. This is the first collection to comprehensively address climate change communication across the continent, featuring perspectives from all regions in Africa.

An essential contribution to the global conversation on climate change communication, the collection will appeal to researchers, academics, policymakers, communication activists, and students at all levels in the fields of environmental communication, media studies, journalism, as well as general readers keen to understand the complex dynamics of climate change in Africa.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Munoriyarwa, Allen

Chari, Tendai

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Communicating Climate Change in Africa: Theory and Practice  PART I: LEGACY MEDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION 1. Covering the Changing Climate: Newspaper Reports of Extreme Weather Events in Malawi 2. Pitfalls in Climate Change Communication: Insights from Nigeria and Algeria 3. An ideological frame analysis of mediated communications about Zimbabwe’s Kariba Redd carbon credit crisis 4. Climate change newsification in Botswana’s newsrooms: journalists’ perspectives 5. Bringing Climate Change Back Down To Earth: Intersectional Climate Justice Communication Strategies in South Africa 6. Climate Change Journalistic Lenses: An East African Perspective 7. Newspaper Framing of Climate Change Responsibilities in Nigeria  PART II: VISUAL ARTS, COMMUNITY MEDIA, AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION  8. The role of visual arts in climate change communication in Africa 9. Strengthening Climate Action through Community Radio: A Case Study of Cameroon's South-West Region 10. Leveraging Indigenous Media Strategies in Climate Change Communication in Ghana 11. Effective Communication on Climate Change in Africa: Global Noise, Local Expression  PART III DIGITAL MEDIA AND CLIMATE CHANGE 12. Artificial Intelligence in Climate Change Reporting: Emerging Journalistic Practices in African Contexts 13. Datafication of climate change news in Zimbabwean Daily Newspapers 14. Beyond the Headlines: Examining Media and Internet Discourse on Climate Change in Mozambique 15. Podcasts, Sustainability and Environmental Communication in the Middle East and North Africa  PART IV: PLATFORMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE COMMUNICATION  16. From Platformisation to Infomediation: Trends and Imaginaries of Participation in #GreenNigeria 17. Communicating climate change on TikTok: Actors, cultures and practices in Africa 18. Social Media and Climate Change Activism: When Champions Meet Denialists on X

Über Autor(innen)

Tendai Chari (PhD) is an Associate Professor of Media Studies and C1 National Research Foundation (NRF) Rated researcher at the University of Venda, South Africa. He holds a PhD in media studies from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Previously, he lectured at several universities in Africa, including the University of Zimbabwe (where he was head of the media programme in the English department), the National University of Science and Technology and Fort Hare University (South Africa). Chari is widely published in the field of media and communication studies, and his research focuses on political communication with a broadened horizon on the interface between digital media and politics, media and conflict, and media ethics and popular culture. His other publications have appeared in the Journal of African Media Studies, Global Media (China Edition), African Journalism Studies, International Communication Gazette, African Identities, and Journal of African Elections. He is the co-editor of Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives (Routledge, 2022, co-edited with Professor Martin N. Ndlela). Chari is a recipient of several grants and fellowships, which include the African Peace Building Network Fellowship (2017), the African Peacebuilding Book Publishing Manuscript grant (2018), the African Humanities Program (APH) of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Post-Doctoral Fellowship (2022). Chari is working finalising his single-authored book titled Diaspora Media and Homeland Conflict: Coloniality of Conflict Journalism in Zimbabwe (Routledge).

Allen Munoriyarwa (PhD) holds a PhD in Journalism from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Journalism at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa, in the Department of Marketing, Public Relations and Communication. He is the former coordinator of the Media Policy and Democracy Project (MPDP). This research project explored the growth of digital surveillance practices in Southern Africa under the auspices of the Media Policy and Democracy Project. He is also a board member of Intelwatch, a civil society organisation that operates in Africa. (It can be followed here: https://intelwatch.org.za/.) Professor Allen Munoriyarwa is also the Coordinator of the British Academy Research titled, ‘Watching the Watchers: Strengthening Public Oversight of intelligence-driven surveillance’. (It can be found here: https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/watchingthewatchers/. - PI Professor Jane Duncan). His research interests are in AI, digital surveillance, digital media ecosystems and climate communication practices. He is also working on several other research projects on AI. He is also the head of the AI research niche area at WSU. He has researched widely on digital journalism practices like data journalism, AI, and disinformation. His research interests are in surveillance, digital journalism, media cultures, and digital surveillance. He has published widely in these areas. He co-authored one of the first books on Digital surveillance in Southern Africa. Professor Munoriyarwa is also a member of the Critical Studies of Climate, Media, and Discourse, which is a working group of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN). The CSSN is an international network of climate scholars headquartered at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society.