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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Main Author: Zvenyika Eckson Mugari 
Other Authors: Dr. Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Format: book part
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2022
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Online Access:https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5227
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77481-3_11
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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
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