Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media
This chapter analyzes the relationship between how knowledges produced in the global south are treated and how western media projects the continent. Extant scholarly literature on the news media can be classified into three broad areas focusing on: the nature of media organization, production proces...
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author | Zvenyika Eckson Mugari |
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description | This chapter analyzes the relationship between how knowledges produced in the global south are treated and how western media projects the continent. Extant scholarly literature on the news media can be classified into three broad areas focusing on: the nature of media organization, production processes, news texts, and news reception. Research pursuit of these areas is premised mainly on the basic assumption that the news matters. By implication, non-news is an irrelevance for the simple reason that it is an absence and therefore not known and available to the research community. Thus, the western dominant news episteme stayed the course and remained hegemonic and, so has the product of its epistemic processes, the news, enjoyed the status of quintessential truth. |
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spelling | ir-11408-52272022-11-21T09:32:43Z Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media Zvenyika Eckson Mugari Dr. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba Toyin Falola Midlands State University Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, South Africa Department of History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA Epistemology Africa News media Global South This chapter analyzes the relationship between how knowledges produced in the global south are treated and how western media projects the continent. Extant scholarly literature on the news media can be classified into three broad areas focusing on: the nature of media organization, production processes, news texts, and news reception. Research pursuit of these areas is premised mainly on the basic assumption that the news matters. By implication, non-news is an irrelevance for the simple reason that it is an absence and therefore not known and available to the research community. Thus, the western dominant news episteme stayed the course and remained hegemonic and, so has the product of its epistemic processes, the news, enjoyed the status of quintessential truth. 213 237 2022-11-21T09:32:43Z 2022-11-21T09:32:43Z 2021-11-23 book part https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5227 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_11 en The Palgrave Handbook of Africa and the Changing Global Order 978-3-030-77481-3 open Palgrave Macmillan, Cham |
spellingShingle | Epistemology Africa News media Global South Zvenyika Eckson Mugari Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title | Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title_full | Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title_fullStr | Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title_full_unstemmed | Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title_short | Epistemologies of the South and Africa's Marginalization in the Media |
title_sort | epistemologies of the south and africa's marginalization in the media |
topic | Epistemology Africa News media Global South |
url | https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5227 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_11 |
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