Looking back, looking forward: inheriting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring’
Below we share an extract of Looking back, looking forward: inheriting the revolutions of the ‘Arab Spring’ by Miriyam Aouragh...
International media policy
Why should we care about media policy? Critical directions in media policy research
This new chapter by Maria Michalis, and published in The Routledge Companion to Media Industries is about media policy research. It...
Peace and conflict journalism: An African perspective
Winston Mano has recently published a new book chapter as part of the volume Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting,...
Ecological Civilisation Discourse in Xinhua’s African Newswires: Towards a Greener Agency?
How does Chinese central media represent Africa through its environmental news? This article argues that the way in which Chinese...
Punitive laws are failing to curb misinformation in Africa. Time for a rethink
Misinformation, best understood as false or misleading information whether or not it was intended to mislead, has long been recognised as...
Black Women in Parliament and on Social Media: Link Visibility as an Intersectional and Solidarity-Building Tool
Andrea Medrado’s article “Black Women in Parliament and on Social Media: Link Visibility as an Intersectional and Solidarity-Building Tool” has...
Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Misinformation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa is a single volume containing two research reports by eight authors examining policy towards misinformation in...
Misinformation literacy, not punitive laws, needed to combat fake news
African governments have resorted to new laws against false information, that don’t reduce harm. They also don’t promote media literacy...
Ethnography as thrownness and the face of the sufferer
This article provides a self-reflexive account of ethnographic research conducted on the outskirts of Burj Al Brajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp...
“Cross-editing”: Comparing News Output Through Journalists’ Re-working of Their Rivals’ Scripts
Newsdesk journalists make thousands of editorial decisions every day without recourse to style guides. They can do this because they...
