Full Description
This book investigates ways in which global media coverage of conflicts affects the worldviews of the social and cultural values of nationals from the war regions. It identifies the cultural patterns in remote communities that have been 'diluted' by IT and the extent to which the changes impacted the values of the indigenes. It also describes the role that IT especially social media and broadcast media play in the understanding of war among residents in highly wired and remote communities, respectively.
Contents
1. Foreword - Ronald L. Jackson II.- 2. Terrorism as a Strategic Reporting Mechanism in African Media - Charles Okigbo & Okafor Blessing.- 3. Foreign Correspondents and the Image of Africa: The Coverage of Ethiopia in the 1930s - Charles Muiru Ngugi.- 4. African Media Coverage of Terrorism: A Case Study of Nigerian and East African Newspapers - Seseer P. Mou-Danha.- 5. One Culture, Different Perceptions: The Role of Politics in the work of Journalists in Two Arab Countries - Galander Mahmoud.- 6. African-American communities in the Press: Dissolving the Black identity - Alice, A. Tait.- 7. Mass Communication and Society Media, Terrorism, and Society: Perspectives and Trends in the Digital Age - Shahira Fahmy.- 8. Why all the hoopla? Fake News Reporting on Social Media Platforms and implications for Nation-State Building -E. Ngwainmbi.- 9. Social Media use among African Youth: Cultural setback orstep toward globalization - E. Ngwainmbi.- 10.Digital Media and Online Extremism among African Youth: Implications for cultural discontinuity and social cohesion - Adebayo Fayoyin.- 11. Reassessment of international media reporting of Africa's protracted wars and conflicts -Adebayo Fayoyin.- 12. Confronting the lion with bare hands: The case of Anglophone Cameroonians political awakening - Kehbuma Langmia.- 13. China's National Media Coverage of Counter-terrorism and its Netizens' Reactions - Wei Sun.- 14. Young women and internet cafés in China: Risks and aspirations in a contested techno-social space - Janice Hua Xu.
