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Journal articles on the topic "Mass media – Influence – Africa, North"
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Belay, Adamu, Edward J. M. Joy, Christopher Chagumaira, Dilnesaw Zerfu, E. Louise Ander, Scott D. Young, Elizabeth H. Bailey, R. Murray Lark, Martin R. Broadley, and Dawd Gashu. "Selenium Deficiency Is Widespread and Spatially Dependent in Ethiopia." Nutrients 12, no. 6 (May 27, 2020): 1565. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12061565.
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Selenium (Se) is an essential element for human health and livestock productivity. Globally, human Se status is highly variable, mainly due to the influence of soil types on the Se content of crops, suggesting the need to identify areas of deficiency to design targeted interventions. In sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, data on population Se status are largely unavailable, although previous studies indicated the potential for widespread Se deficiency. Serum Se concentration of a nationally representative sample of the Ethiopian population was determined, and these observed values were combined with a spatial statistical model to predict and map the Se status of populations across the country. The study used archived serum samples (n = 3269) from the 2015 Ethiopian National Micronutrient Survey (ENMS). The ENMS was a cross-sectional survey of young and school-age children, women and men. Serum Se concentration was measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICPMS). The national median (Q1, Q3) serum Se concentration was 87.7 (56.7, 123.0) μg L−1. Serum Se concentration differed between regions, ranging from a median (Q1, Q3) of 54.6 (43.1, 66.3) µg L−1 in the Benishangul-Gumuz Region to 122.0 (105, 141) µg L−1 in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region and the Afar Region. Overall, 35.5% of the population were Se deficient, defined as serum Se < 70 µg L−1. A geostatistical analysis showed that there was marked spatial dependence in Se status, with serum concentrations greatest among those living in North-East and Eastern Ethiopia and along the Rift Valley, while serum Se concentrations were lower among those living in North-West and Western Ethiopia. Selenium deficiency in Ethiopia is widespread, but the risk of Se deficiency is highly spatially dependent. Policies to enhance Se nutrition should target populations in North-West and Western Ethiopia.
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Kliuchnyk, Ruslan, and Elvina Lymonova. "THE PECULIARITIES OF POVERTY RESEARCH IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD." Academic Review 2, no. 57 (November 25, 2022): 24–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.32342/2074-5354-2022-2-57-2.
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The article attempts to generalize some features of the study of poverty in the modern world. The use of various indicators that demonstrate the level of poverty has been shown. It has been explained that GDP per capita is one of the most accurate ways of assessing the economic development of the state. It has been demonstrated that all the poorest countries are located on the African continent. Almost all of them used to be colonies of European empires, and now they face political instability, civil wars, natural disasters, etc. These problems have been considered on the examples of Niger and Egypt. Another indicator of poverty is the percentage of people living below the poverty line. The difficulty of using this indicator is that national poverty lines in different countries can differ significantly. According to this indicator, 8 African and 2 Latin American countries (Guatemala and Haiti) are in the top ten. The Global Hunger Index (GHI) has been considered, according to which African countries and Syria are among the top ten starving countries. It should be noted that for some countries there is very little data on the number and share of the hungry. When studying the situation in some countries (North Korea, Turkmenistan, Somalia, etc.), it should be borne in mind that the governments of these countries do not always publish real official statistics, and those data that get into the mass media are not always true. It has been proven that the Human Development Index (HDI) is an integrated indicator that can be used to study the problem of poverty. It has been shown that 10 countries with the lowest HDI are located in Africa. Their place in this ranking is influenced not only by material factors, but also by the average life expectancy and education. Africa is still a continent with a large number of illiterate people. The Corruption Perceptions Index is also important for the study of poverty, because corruption slows down reforms and harms transparent market relations. Therefore, it becomes one of the factors of poverty. Using the statistics provided by Transparency International, we have found out that the most corrupt countries are more evenly distributed around the globe, among them are not only African ones, but also Asian and Latin American states. It can be summarized that the nature of poverty is different in the developed and developing countries. In the developing countries, natural conditions, peculiarities of the organization of socioeconomic life, the political system and even the personality of political leaders are important. In the developed countries, poverty is mostly a consequence of individual psychological characteristics, behaviour, specific life circumstances, etc. In these countries, poverty can be easily overcome.
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Behr, Timo, and Saskia van Genugten. "Europe in North Africa :." Jindal Journal of International Affairs 1, no. 1 (November 1, 2011): 93–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v1i1.10.
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European geopolitics cast a long shadow in North Africa. Due to its political, economic and strategic interests in a ‘stable’ neighbourhood, Europe has for long discouraged a process of uncontrolled political change in North African countries. However, in the spring of 2011, mass demonstrations by Arab youths broke the prevailing deadlock in the region and swept away a number of long standing Arab dictators. The question that remains unanswered is to what extent the ‘Arab Spring’ will affect geo-political relations among Europeans and Europe’s standing as a whole in the global pecking order. Will Europe’s belated support for the Arab revolutions renew its geopolitical importance and international mission, or will it precipitate its interminable decline? In this article, this question is being scrutinised by looking at the historical development of European relations with North Africa and how Europe is trying to preserve some of its former influence despite domestic challenges and competition from new, non-Western actors.
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Hafizah. "The Influence of Online Media and Social Media on Mass Communication with Communication Technology as Intervening Variables." Business and Economic Research 8, no. 1 (December 14, 2017): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v8i1.12083.
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This study aims to determine the Influence of Online Media and Social Media in North Sumatra to Mass Communication with Communication Technology as Intervening Variable. This type of research is descriptive quantitative. The independent variables are Online Media and Social Media. The intervening variable is Communication Technology and the dependent variable is Mass Communication. The population of this study is 203 users of Media Online and Social Media in North Sumatra. The sample of research is 203 users through purposive random sampling. Online Media and Social Media variables have a significant effect on Mass Communication in North Sumatra and Communication Technology serves as a mediation of the relationship between Media Online and Social Media to Mass Communication at 5% variable alpha level.
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Zaghlimi, Laeed. "Colonial media and post independence experience in north Africa." Media & Jornalismo 16, no. 29 (October 11, 2016): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/2183-5462_29_10.
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European colonialism had not only occupied many african countries, exploited their natural resources and deprived their inhabitants of basic rights, but also sought to establish its new political, social, economic and cultural system. However, in order to impose its new rules and values, it had used military forces as well as political and media means to convince and influence people minds and hearts. The press was one of the main arguments of seduction and dissimination of the colonial culture and information.This paper which focuses in its first part on French occupation of North Africa, describes how French colonial authority used and abused the media to perpetuate its presence and set up new forms of values and ideas aimed at destroying local culture and traditions. The second part describes how local populations had reacted to the colonial presence by adopting new forms of opposition and resistance. Again, the ‘indigenous press’ was a determining factor in promoting ideas of militantism, independence and sovereignty. The third part highlights the main phases of the media evolution and experience during the post independence period.
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Vasiliev, Aleksey M., and Natalia A. Zherlitsina. "DYNAMICS OF PUBLIC POLICY ON MASS MEDIA IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA REGION." Bulletin of the Moscow State Regional University (History and Political Science), no. 2 (2019): 210–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.18384/2310-676x-2019-2-210-221.
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Mutumba, Massy. "Mass media influences on family planning knowledge, attitudes and method choice among sexually active men in sub-Saharan Africa." PLOS ONE 17, no. 1 (January 27, 2022): e0261068. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261068.
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Men are underrepresented in family planning (FP) research, and despite the widespread promotion of FP through mass media, there is no systematic evaluation on how mass media exposure influences their FP knowledge, attitudes and behavior. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data from 31 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), collected between 2010 and 2019, this paper examines the associations between three types of traditional mass media (radio, television and print) with FP knowledge, attitudes and method choices among reproductive age men in SSA, relative to other socio-cultural factors. Estimates to quantify the relative contribution of each type of mass media, relative to other evidence-based socio-cultural influences on FP outcomes, were derived using the Shorrocks-Shapley decomposition. Radio exposure had the largest impact on FP knowledge, attitudes and method choice, accounting for 26.1% of the variance in FP knowledge, followed by Television (21.4%) and education attainment (20.7%). Mass media exposure had relatively minimal impact on FP method choice, and between the three types of mass media, television (8%) had the largest influence on FP method choice. Print media had comparatively lesser impact on FP knowledge (8%), attitudes (6.2%) and method choice (3.2%). Findings suggest that mass media exposure has positive influences on FP knowledge, attitudes and method choice but its influence on FP knowledge, attitudes and method choice is smaller relative to other socio-cultural factors such as education, household wealth and marital status. As such, efforts to increase FP uptake in Sub-Saharan Africa should take into consideration the impact of these socio-cultural economic factors.
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Avksentev, Viktor Anatolyevich, Boris Vladimirovich Aksiumov, and Galina Dmitrievna Gritsenko. "Mass Media and Ethnic Discourse in the North Caucasus: Politicization or Depoliticization?" Общество: политика, экономика право, no. 11 (November 20, 2020): 12–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.24158/pep.2020.11.1.
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Based on the content analysis of “non-ethnic” mass media in the federal subjects of Russia in the North Caucasus, the attempt to determine the place of ethnicity in the information field of the region and the influence of these sources on the processes of politicization/depoliticization of ethnicity is made in the paper. It was revealed that the topic “historical memory” is the leading one in ethnically marked publications. The next places in the thematic classi-fier are occupied by “ethnic identity” and “ethnic traditions and values”. Along with this, the dis-course of modernization turned out to be in de-mand, which indicates that the North Caucasus is in a situation of search for an optimal balance between old and new, traditions and innovations. Only one case of the use of the concept of “nation” as a syn-onym for the Russian (“Rossiyan”) nation has been identified, however, references to the nation in the ethnic sense are extremely rare. It is concluded that the “non-ethnic” media of the North Caucasus keep ethnic and confessional issues within public dis-course, but it is not “superfluous”, i. e. the tendency to politicize ethnicity is not typical or explicit.
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Manuel, Peter. "The cassette industry and popular music in North India." Popular Music 10, no. 2 (May 1991): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143000004505.
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Since the early 1970s the advent of cassette technology has had a profound effect on music industries worldwide. This influence has been particularly marked in the developing world, where cassettes have largely replaced vinyl records and have extended their impact into regions, classes and genres previously uninfluenced by the mass media. Cassettes have served to decentralise and democratise both production and consumption, thereby counterbalancing the previous tendency toward oligopolisation of international commercial recording industries.
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Huertas Bailén, Amparo. "Islam and Mass Media Consumption in Post-Migration Contexts among Women from Northern Africa in Catalonia (Spain)." Societies 8, no. 3 (September 18, 2018): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc8030091.
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This paper explores the influence of religion in cultural hybridization processes linked to migratory experience, taking into account the study of mass media consumption. Our research focused on the analysis of Muslim women from northern Africa living in Catalonia (Spain) over a 5-year period. The final sample was composed of 25 women, from Morocco (22), Tunisia (2) and Algeria (1).The main conclusions of our qualitative research are that the influence of Islam is much more evident as culture than as dogma and, in line with this, the presence of segregationist media consumption is minimal (in 4 of the 25 interviewed). Internet and television consumption is dominant, but there is a significant generation gap. Whereas internet consumption is mostly among the young, television is more present among women over the age of 36. With regards to internet content, there is serious concern about the presence of religious leaders who, under the guise of a modern appearance, spread a vision of Islam in fundamentalist terms. Much of the sample interviewed fears its power of influence. In digital social networks, Muslim women tend to share religious information, but, for safety reasons, they do so within closed groups.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Mass media – Influence – Africa, North"
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Rosenkranz, Rolf J. "Perceptions of journalistic freedom, and the factors that influence them : a case study of journalists at the Star, South Africa /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p1426101.
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Helander, Elisabet Maria Erika. "The influence of Chinese news in English on mass media in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of Kenyan and South African journalism and media content." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2017. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/408.
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This thesis conciders the conditions for news reporting in two post-authoritarian African nations, and places focus on Chinese media’s influence on the local journalism and media system. The question of how much influence China’s international media has in Africa, has been brought up by communication scholars, but not yet empirically studied. Based on a theoretical framework of how the structure of the media system dictates the practice of journalism, this research enquiry scrutinises the mass media coverage and framing of the news that involves Chinese engagements in Africa. The research question concerns whether China’s investment efforts in the area of media, culture and education have discernible impact on journalism and mass media content in Kenya and South Africa. The context which gives rise to the research question consists of a collection of sometimes instrumentalist literature, describing the nature and the intention of China’s expanding engagement in Africa, as well as an academic debate about what consequences the relationship has for social and political development in African countries. In such debates it has been discussed whether the Chinese commercial investments or direct aid is benefitting social justice in Africa or rather serve to widen existing inequalities. It is in this debate assumed that while Western countries have, since the end of the Cold War, promoted a democratic development model on the African continent, China is currently advertising an alternative model for development. However, there has not been any study to date, which tests this assumption. This study was conducted to gather empirical evidence for a better understanding of the scope and implications of Chinese international media and cultural exchange in Africa. The research is based on interviews with media practitioners who worked for Kenyan and South African media organisations, and content analysis of newspaper articles in the respective countries. The methodological approach forms two separate parts, which both help to answer the research question. By triangulation of the results from the two-pronged study, some significant findings have been drawn. The media practitioners in the majority display a critical view towards Chinese international media as source of information and forum for debate. The result of the content analysis indicates that any influence of China’s international media on local reporting is limited to certain publications, depending on media funding, ownership, and relation to the government.
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Mutua, Alfred Nganga, University of Western Sydney, of Arts Education and Social Sciences College, and of Communication Design and Media School. "Media for development and democracy : a new paradigm for development incorporating culture and communication." THESIS_CAESS_CDM_Mutua_A.xml, 2002. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/319.
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This thesis examines the use of media and journalistic practice for development. The study concentrates on Africa and argues that development strategies are dependent on a clear understanding of the contexts and constraints of a situation. It is argued that Africa's history and present political and socio-economic situations have contributed to the instability and poverty facing many of its nation states. It is also argued that continued dependency by African nations on richer Western nations is a problem originating from colonial imperialism and the failed dominant paradigm, recently reinvented as globalisation and global economic rationalisation. The work presents a view of communication for development which can only be achieved with an understanding of the relations between media, culture, dependency and the making of meaning.Solutions to Africa's problems may require Africans themselves undertaking development in a concept of their own 'voice' and self-representation. With this view, a model for how journalists, using media, should actively engage in development is suggested. Two case studies are presented : a study of communication dysfunction at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya and a study of the concept of Edutainment by South Africa's Soul City's organisation. Further, selections of media programs are presented as part of the dissertation's proposed body of work.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Maqoko, Mlamli Cecil. "Media relations management within a changing environment with specific reference to the University of the North." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52332.
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Thesis (MPhil) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2001.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study focused on the representation of the University of the North in the national media during the period 1994-1999. A preliminary survey of newspaper reports indicated that during the post 1994 elections period the University had been getting negative coverage from the national media, especially the Mai/&Guardian.This period was also characterized by the intensification of transformation processes and other challenges within tertiary institutions. The aim of the study was to investigate how the national print media portrayed the university during the period 1994-1999 and to find out what role the Media Directorate of the division Development and Public Relations has played in the whole process. Both internal and external factors which had an impact on the representation of the university were also explored. This study is important in the sense that media relations is regarded as a strategic management tool whose purpose is to create mutual understanding between an organization and its internal and external stakeholders - more especially during the period when organisations are facing both internal and external changes. Communication is therefore seen as a central tool which is facilitating the transformation process. Seen against the tendency of the media to concentrate on conflict and events as major news stories - a conflict of interests then emerges. Content analysis was used to analyse newspaper articles (from the Mai/&Guardian and Independent Online/Star) covering the university between the period 1994-1999 and interviews were conducted with respondents who had been chosen purposely or specifically because their activities had a direct bearing on the media situation. The major themes or issues which had been the major focus of the media during the said period were then identified and evaluated in terms of the nature of the portrayal of the university . The study showed that the University of the North had been negatively portrayed in the media and that the absence of a Media Relations Officer, Media Relations Policy and the tendency of the media to focus on conflict as a news value contributed to the negative image of the university. It is hoped that the study will contribute towards the formulation of a media relations policy at the university, the assessment of the pace of and the whole transformation process and will highlight the major challenges facing public relations departments (and specifically the media sections) of historically black institutions in the current political dispensation.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie ondersoek die mediadekking van die Universiteit van die Noorde in die pers gedurende die tydperk 1994-1999 landwyd. Voorafgaande oorsig oor koerantberigte het aangedui dat na die 1994 nasionale verkiesings die landwye pers In baie negatiewe beeld van die universiteit geskep het. Die nasion ale koerant Mail &Guardian het veral die Universiteit in In negatiewe lig geplaas. Gedurende hierdie tydperk het tersiere instellings 'n verheweging van transformasie-prosesse, gekoppel met ander uitdagings, ondervind. Die doelwit was om die beeld te ondersoek wat nasionale koerante van die Universiteit geskep het en die rol wat hierin gespeel is deur die Media Direktoraat, In onderafdeling van die Universiteit se Ontwikkelings- en Skakelafdeling. Interne en eksterne faktore wat 'n invloed op hierdie beeld kon he, is ondersoek. Organisasies se verhouding met die pers is 'n strategiese kwessie. 'n Wederkerige verstandhouding met interne en eksterne belanghebbendes is onder meer belangrik veral wanneer organisasies interne en eksterne verandering ondervind. Die pers se neiging om op konfliksituasies en soortgelyke gebeurtenisse te konsentreer, vereis des te meer goeie kommunikasie. Die inhoud van koerantberigte oor die Universiteit wat verskyn het in die Mail&Guardian en Independent Online/Star vanaf 1994 tot 1999 is ontleed. Die hooftemas uit die koerantberigte is ge·identifiseer en geevalueer teen die agtergrond van die beeld wat geskep is van die Universiteit. Daarna is onderhoude uitgevoer met werknemers wie se werk 'n direkte uitwerking het op die perssituasie. Die navorser het bevind dat die pers In slegte beeld van die Universiteit geskep het. Die afwesigheid van In persbeleid en 'n skakelbeampte wat spesifiek met die pers onderhandel, gepaard met die pers se neiging om konflik-situasies as nuus te beskou, het daartoe bygedra. Daar word gehoop dat die studie die bepaling van 'n persbeleid vir die Universiteit van die Noorde sal aanhelp. Verder word gehoop dat die Universiteit se benadering tot die transformasiesproses, asook die pas waarop dit plaasvind, geevalueer sal word. Laastens word gehoop dat dit die vernaamste uitdagings wat skakelafdelings (veral die pers-afdelings) van historiese swart instellings in die huidige politiek bedeling in die gesig staar, sal beklemtoon.
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Kafaar, Zuhayr. "The combined influence of new information and communication technologies and gender on self-esteem and social support." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2005. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&.
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This study discussed the effect of new information and communication technologies use on adolescents. The research also assessed whether gender and frequency of use of new information and communication technologies would interact to influence self-esteem and social support from family and friends.
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Rytel, Katarzyna Bozena. "The influence of advertising design in the print media on the self-perception of selected South African and Polish women : a comparative study." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1324.
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Thesis (MTech (Informatics and design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2007Magazines are highly specialised forms ofmass media communication. Across cultures, women's magazines and advertisements systematically promote an ideal of feminine beauty that is embedded primarily in body-image. Mass advertised messages targeted at women promote dominant mainstream cultural and global standards regarding body-image. They al~ promote the use of various products and lifestyle patterns that are intended to enable women to achieve the desired 'look' of the moment. The influence of these advertised messages manifests iD real-life consequences, which are either positive or negative, and which, in turn, influence women's role in society. Seen in this light, certain manipulative practices present in the print media have been identified, which are used extensively to influence women, to shape their perceptions of the world around them, and to coach them into embracing a consumerist lifestyle, with the ultimate aim of generating revenue. In this regard, this study focuses on the ways in which advertising design in women's magazines and the content ofthe South African and Polish EUe and Cosmopolitan, as well as the South African Fairlady and the Polish Twoj Styl represent the image ofcontemporary women in South Africa and Poland.
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Ponono, Mvuzo. "The influence of viewing context on meaning making : a reception study of the popular drama series Intersexions in Ginsberg township." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013093.
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This study examines the home as a context of viewing for the television programme Intersexions in the township of Ginsberg in the Eastern Cape. The central question asked is whether the household influences the interpretation of the programme. The research was mainly conducted through ethnographical methods of participant observation and focus group interviews. Six families were observed and six gender-based focus groups convened. Drawing from the work of Morley (1986) and Lull (1990) that argues that the home be taken more seriously as a context of viewing; this study posits that the home is a rule-bound micro-society that influences the interpretation of media messages. As a starting point, this study contends with the arguments that the South African government has been slow to acknowledge the extent of the problem presented by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Much has been written about the inefficiency of state efforts to educate the public, with some pundits suggesting that government communications strategies have largely been outdated and thus resisted by audiences (Treffry-Goatley, Mahlinza & Imrie, 2013). To counter the pandemic, a large number of independent educational television serials have been launched in South Africa, and met with popular appeal since 1994. Furthermore, this development is in line with global trends of high audience ratings for Entertainment- Education (EE) programmes (Singhal et al., 1993). To investigate complex issue of EE reception by audiences in this burgeoning area of study, the programme at the centre of this study, Intersexions, is a good example. The serial, which concluded its second season in August 2013, is second to only the established soap opera, Generations, in television ratings in South Africa. Therefore, the impressive ratings garnered by educational serials in South Africa are a chance for audience studies to study audiences in context. This research investigates Intersexions using the understanding that television audiences must be analysed in "cultural and historic specific" sites because the struggle to make meanings of texts takes place at the moment when the text and subject meet (Fiske, 1987). This research investigates the assumption that the meanings made by audiences depend not just on the text, but also on environment. This means that the research delves into the situational context in which media are used and interpreted. Therefore, the central aim of this study is to analyse television viewing of the entertainment education programme, Intersexions, in the natural setting of the home, which is in line with analysing television viewers in cultural and historically specific sites.
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Diallo, Abdoul Goudousse. "La manipulation mass médiatique de l'ethnicité en Afrique de l'Ouest : le cas de la Guinée Conakry." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR2005.
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La manipulation ethnique est devenue une réalité en Guinée, à l’instar de plusieurs pays africains. Elle atteint son apothéose en 2010, lors de la campagne présidentielle. Le tout ethnique est alors la chose la mieux partagée par les acteurs politiques qui instrumentalisent des appartenances objectives dans le seul but de mobiliser la communauté d’origine. L’ethnicité est manipulée à des fins clientélistes par les leaders politiques soutenus par des cortes de mercenaires et la complicité de « flibustiers » de l’information.Cette thèse de doctorat en Science de l’information et de la communication analyse la construction médiatique de l’ethnicité par les politiques dans les médias et plus particulièrement sur les sites d’information. Le document est divisé en deux parties.La première partie, théorique, est consacrée aux différents courants recherches et ayant trait à notre champ d’étude. Elle vise à ressaisir et préciser les concepts d’ethnicité et de diversité culturelle dans le jeu de la mondialisation. Ce qui nous a permis d’interroger la menace que la mondialisation fait peser sur la diversité culturelle, notamment d’aborder le rapport offre et besoin d’information, l’effets des médias, l’échange inégal dans le cadre du nouvel ordre mondial de l’information et de la communication (NOMIC). Elle a permis de circonscrire notre sujet et notre problématique de recherche à savoir comment les hommes politiques utilisent les médias pour instrumentaliser le concept de l’ethnicité?La seconde partie, empirique, rend compte d’une enquête de terrain portant sur les sites d’information. Elle s’appuie sur une méthodologie d’analyse de compte rendus d’entretiens qualitatifs et d’articles de presse à l’aide du modèle de Lasswell, actanciel, et au moyen de l’utilisation du logiciel Tropes. À partir de l’étude du corpus portant sur l’actualité médiatique durant les campagnes électorales de 2010 à 2015, nous avons pu faire ressortir les grands axes du discours sur l’ethnicité et la problématique ethnique pour les situé au coeur des mutations sociologiques de la société guinéenne. Ces méthodes nous ont permis d’appréhender l’instrumentalisation de l’ethnicité en Guinée, le traitement médiatique dont elle fait l’objet, ainsi que les prises de positions tant politiques qu’idéologiques des sites d’information.Au final, cette recherche esquisse des propositions visant à sortir du piège ethnique en Guinée et à reconstruire la citoyenneté. Elle pourrait être utile pour les ONG spécialisées dans la prévention des conflits dans le monde, pour les chercheurs qui traiteront la question de l’ethnicité. Enfin elle pourra apporter sa pierre à l’édifice de la compréhension comme à l’orientation des débats concernant les rapports entre sciences sociales et sciences de l’information et de la communicationFollowing the example of several African countries, the ethnic manipulation became a sad reality in Guinea. But, we can say the highlight of this manipulation sees its fullfillment in 2010, during the presidential election campaign. The quite ethnic was then the thing the best shared by the political actors who instrumented objective memberships in the only purpose to mobilize the community of origin: the clientelism to which resort the various political parties is then for its peak. It is therefore a question good political ethnicity supported by the mercenaries’ politics with complicity of the « pirates » of the information.So this doctoral thesis in Science of information and communication analyzes the media construction of the ethnicity by the politics in the media and more particularly on the sites of information. The organization of this thesis is based on two parts. The first, theoretical part is dedicated to the various speculative searches and to the currents concerning our field of study. Second, empirical, is of an investigation ground. It leaned on a methodology to know the analysis of articles of sites of information through the model of Lasswell, actenciel, the use of software tropes having for objective essential to seize the contents of articles and qualitative interviews. Besides, in our study of corpus concerning current events during election campaigns from 2010 till 2015, we were able to highlight interesting results basing on the software tropes and our analysis of speech and contents. These results offer a complete vision of the sociological transformations in guinean society carrying at the heart of current events the ethnic problem in Guinea.These methods allowed us to grasp the intrumentalisation of the ethnicity in Guinean society, the media treatment of which it is the object, as well as stands so political as ideological of the sites of information
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Barratt, Elizabeth. "Choosing to be part of the story : the participation of the South African National Editors' Forum in the democratising process /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/29.
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Yartey, Franklin Nii Amankwah. "Digitizing Third World Bodies: Communicating Race, Identity, and Gender through Online Microfinance/A Visual Analysis." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1329782791.
Full textBooks on the topic "Mass media – Influence – Africa, North"
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New media influence on social and political change in Africa. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2013.
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Political influence of the media in developing countries. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2016.
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Strohmaier, Alena, and Angela Krewani, eds. Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989092.
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A few months into the popular uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in 2009/10, the promises of social media, including its ability to influence a participatory governance model, grassroots civic engagement, new social dynamics, inclusive societies and new opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, became more evident than ever. Simultaneously, cartography received new considerable interest as it merged with social media platforms. In an attempt to rearticulate the relationship between media and mapping practices, whilst also addressing new and social media, this interdisciplinary book abides by one relatively clear point: space is a media product. The overall focus of this book is accordingly not so much on the role of new technologies and social networks as it is on how media and mapping practices expand the very notion of cultural engagement, political activism, popular protest and social participation.
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Elisabeth, Mudimbe-Boyi M., ed. Remembering Africa. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2002.
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Muffled echoes: Oliver North and the politics of public opinion. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.
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Media, migration and public opinion: Myths, prejudices and the challenge of attaining mutual understanding between Europe and North Africa. Bern: Peter Lang, 2011.
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Starring Mandela and Cosby: Media and the end(s) of apartheid. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
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Dr. Livingstone, I presume?: Missionaries, journalists, explorers, and empire. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007.
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Pettitt, Clare. Dr Livingstone, I presume?: Missionaries, journalists, explorers and empire. London: Profile, 2007.
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Negotiating in the public eye: The impact of the press on the intermediate-range nuclear force negotiations. Stanford, Cal: Stanford University Press, 1995.
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Silverstein, Paul A. "The Amazigh Movement in a Changing North Africa." In Social Currents in North Africa, 73–92. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190876036.003.0005.
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This chapter traces transformations in Amazigh militancy over the past fifty years. Its engagements have gradually shifted from particular demands for cultural and linguistic recognition toward a broader advocacy for social justice, political transparency, and economic equity that parallel those of student, labor, feminist, and human rights movements. These are demands that congealed in the 2011 mass demonstrations across North Africa and that explicitly sought to transcend extant ethnic and religious divisions within the region. Today, the Amazigh movement’s imagination of a broader cultural-geographic space of Tamazgha (Barbary) stretching from the Canary Islands to the Egyptian Siwa oasis continues to provide an alternate model for thinking beyond the narrow national interests that had sunk previous, official efforts to enact North African unity. Even as Amazigh activists remain fractured along generational, class, and indeed regional/national lines, their efforts at organizing through “world” federations, supranational bodies, diasporic resources, and delocalized social media point to alternative vectors for rethinking North Africa beyond a set of discrete nation-states. The Amazigh movement thus provides a salient lens for examining contemporary social currents in North Africa.
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Onyebadi, Uche T., Mohamed A. Satti, and Lindani Mbunyuza-Memani. "Diversity and the Media." In Multidisciplinary Issues Surrounding African Diasporas, 54–79. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5079-2.ch003.
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This chapter investigated the curricula of journalism and mass communication programs in African universities. Sixty-seven programs in public and private universities located in all regions of the continent were examined. The major findings show that diversity and the media courses were taught in 58% of the sample. Programs in the sample from North Africa did not have the course or its equivalent. And, with the exception of Southern Africa, most of the programs in other regions of Africa mainly limit their diversity courses to gender issues. To better prepare journalism students for the coverage of a diverse world, this study recommends that diversity and the media courses be requirements in journalism and mass communication programs in Africa, with the courses expanded to include other elements of diversity such as social class, age/generation, race/ethnicity, religion, and geographical/physical location.
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Strohmaier, Alena. "Cinematic Spaces of ‘the Arab Street’ : Mohamed Diab’s Inverted Road Movie Clash (2016)." In Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989092_ch07.
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This chapter examines how cinema challenges and inverts traditional spaces of social upheavals, such as streets and squares, in their capacity to be spaces of knowledge and solidarity, in conceptualizing them as enhanced media-sensible spaces. Through a close reading of Mohamed Diab’s feature film Clash (2016), I foreground the idea of the truck as a cinematic space predicated on its ability to accommodate movement, both in a literal and a metaphorical sense. This allows for a discussion of cinematic spaces of the so-called ‘Arab street’, created by both mise en scène and cinematography that go against the more prevalent images of street fights and mass demonstrations as seen in documentaries about the popular upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa region since 2009.
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Dados, Nour Nicole. "Mapping Empire: Knowledge Production and Government in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire." In Media and Mapping Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989092_ch01.
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Many studies of the nineteenth century Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have been concerned with the economic, social and political influence exerted by European colonial governments through the accumulation of knowledge about the region and its subsequent military domination. The case of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century demonstrates that European techniques of knowledge production were also strategically adopted by ruling elites outside the colonial metropolises. Ottoman adoption of European technologies and techniques were politically entwined with the empire’s territorial claims against nascent nationalisms and a calculated move towards knowledge-based forms of government administration in the quest to hold onto power. Cartographic and demographic methods used by the Ottomans produced new assemblages of territory and population that profoundly reshaped the objective of government and the conduct of imperial administration. Statistics and geography became the choice tools of social progress and advancement, underpinning the numerous reforms of the nineteenth century aimed at rationalisation and centralisation.
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Kalipeni, Ezekiel, and Joseph R. Oppong. "Geography of Africa." In Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198233923.003.0050.
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This chapter reviews the state of North American geographical research on Africa in the 1990s. During the 1980s research on Africa dwelt on the many crises, some real and some imagined, usually sensationalized by the media, such as the collapse of the state in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Somalia, and Rwanda and the economic shocks of structural adjustment programs. The 1990s witnessed momentous positive changes. For example, apartheid ended in South Africa and emerging democratic systems replaced dictatorial regimes in Malawi and Zambia. Persuaded that Africa had made progress on many fronts largely due to self-generated advances, some scholars began to highlight the positive new developments (Gaile and Ferguson 1996). Due to space limitations, selecting works to include in this review has been difficult. In many instances we stayed within five cited works (first authorship) for anyone scholar to ensure focus on the most important works and to achieve a sense of balance in the works cited. Thus, research reviewed in this chapter should be treated as a sample of the variety and quality of North American geographical work on Africa. One major challenge was where to draw the boundary between “geography,” “not quite geography,” and “by North American authors” versus others. In these days of globalized research paradigms, geography has benefited tremendously from interchanging ideas with other social and natural science disciplines. Thus, separating North American geographic research in the 1990s from other groundbreaking works that profoundly influence the discipline of geography is difficult. For example, while the empirical subject matter included agriculture, health, gender, and development issues, the related theoretical paradigm often included representation, discourse, resistance, and indigenous development within broader frameworks influenced by the ideas of social science scholars such as Foucault (1970, 1977, 1980), Said (1978), Sen (1981, 1990), and Scott (1977, 1987). This chapter engages these debates. Building upon T. J. Bassett’s (1989) review of research in the 1980s, the chapter develops a typology for the growing research on African issues and related theoretical orientations (Table 36.1). The reviewed works fall into the three main subdisciplines of geography—human geography (by far the most dominant), physical geography now commonly referred to as earth systems science or global change studies, and geographic information systems (GIS).
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"Libya: Authoritarianism in a Fractured State." In New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Özgün E. Topak, Merouan Mekouar, and Francesco Cavatorta, 171–88. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474489409.003.0009.
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Libya has not had a functioning central government since the February 17 Revolution ended the Muammar al-Qaddafi regime. From the National Transitional Council (2011-12) to the parallel and competing Government of National Unity (2021-present) and the Government of National Stability (2022-present), attempts by numerous administrations to establish legitimacy and presence throughout the country have all failed. Instead, overlapping circles of power and influence have developed in this fractured country, most of which are authoritarian in spirit and action. These circles include local councils, ethnic groups and tribes, hundreds of militias, and various religious bodies and movements. To stifle dissent, neutralize opponents, and inhibit social mobilization, these circles employ traditional mechanisms of authoritarian control, including brute coercion, elite co-optation, rent distribution, and media control. Innovation in the norms and techniques of authoritarianism is also apparent in post-Qaddafi Libya. Departure from past practice is found in new security laws, expanded social media surveillance, and the employment of modern military technology, notably drones. Much of the change after 2011 is the product of new or expanded alliances with regional and international powers, namely Egypt, Qatar, Russia, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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"An Assemblage of New Authoritarian Practices in Turkey." In New Authoritarian Practices in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Özgün E. Topak, Merouan Mekouar, and Francesco Cavatorta, 296–319. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474489409.003.0015.
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This chapter provides a historically grounded and theoretically informed overview of key expanding authoritarian practices under the AKP's rule (2002-Present). The chapter starts by discussing the authoritarian state tradition in Turkey and how the AKP inherited this tradition. Next, the paper draws on the concept of the authoritarian assemblage and examines the AKP's authoritarian practices including the use of politically motivated trials, creation of a pro-AKP judiciary, appointments of trustees, fake news, new internet controls and social media trolling. The chapter demonstrates the expansion of new authoritarian practices and connections among authoritarian systems/practices under the model of an authoritarian assemblage. The chapter also emphasizes the key turning points in the establishment of the current authoritarian system, including the targeting and removal of the Republican elites from key positions with the help of Gülenists in the first decade of the AKP rule, the breakdown of the AKP & Gülenist alliance from 2013, the 2013 Gezi Protests, the 2016 Coup Attempt, and the 2018 transition to the Presidential system. The chapter demonstrates that, building on Turkey's authoritarian tradition, in the first decade of its rule, the AKP targeted key opposing and dissident figures in the process of establishing dominance on state bureaucracy. In the post-2013 environment, the party began to establish a mass authoritarian assemblage which resulted in mass criminalization of dissident activity.
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Hallam, Tony. "The influence of humans." In Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities. Oxford University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198524977.003.0014.
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We saw in Chapters 5 and 7 that the Quaternary was a time of low extinction rates despite a succession of strong environmental changes induced ultimately by climate. This began to change from a few tens of thousands of years ago with the arrival on our planet of Homo sapiens sapiens, which can be translated from the Latin as the rather smug ‘ultrawise Man’. It is widely accepted today that the Earth is undergoing a loss of species on a scale that would certainly rank in geological terms as a catastrophe, and has indeed, been dubbed ‘the sixth mass extinction’. Although the disturbance to the biosphere being created in modern times is more or less entirely attributable to human activity, we must use the best information available from historical, archaeological, and geological records to attempt to determine just when it began. Towards the end of the last ice age, known in Europe as the Würm and in North America as the Wisconsin, the continents were much richer in large mammals than today: for example, there were mammoths, mastodonts, and giant ground sloths in the Americas; woolly mammoths, elephants, rhinos, giant deer, bison, and hippos in northern Eurasia; and giant marsupials in Australia. Outside Africa most genera of large mammals, defined as exceeding 44 kilograms adult weight, disappeared within the past 100,000 years, an increasing number becoming extinct towards the end of that period. This indicates that there was a significant extinction event near the end of the Pleistocene. This event was not simultaneous across the world, however: it took place later in the Americas than Australia, and Africa and Asia have suffered fewer extinctions than other continents. There are three reasons for citing humans as the main reason for the late Pleistocene extinctions. First, the extinctions follow the appearance of humans in various parts of the world. Very few of the megafaunal extinctions that took place in the late Pleistocene can definitely be shown to pre-date the arrival of humans. There has, on the other hand, been a sequence of extinctions following human dispersal, culminating most recently on oceanic islands. Second, it was generally only large mammals that became extinct.
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Sharief, Salah M. "The Influence of Sufism on the Sudanese Belt." In Orientālistika. Cilvēkzināšana un Āzijas aktualitātes, 80–95. LU Akadēmiskais apgāds, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/luraksti.os.819.05.
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As of the last decade of the 20th century, the Middle East and Africa have been the birthplace of extremist organizations espousing a radical ideology, which encourages violence against the dissenters and branding them apostates. Organizations like Al-Qā’ida and Dā’ish/ISIL performed numerous terrorist acts around the world, but especially in the Middle East. Other Salafi organizations like Boko Haram also gained recognition in international media disproportionate to their actual size. This discourse was behind the coinage of the term ‘Islamic Terrorism’, which casts a shadow of suspicion on any member of the Muslim community worldwide and served as an impetus for the writing of this paper as a means of shedding light on other Muslim organizations, which arguably are much larger in scope and influence. At the same time, these organizations are peaceful in nature and characterized by an incomparable level of tolerance. In my quest for sources of both narratives, I traced the history of the advent and dissemination of Islam in Africa – such a diverse geographic, cultural, ethnic and religious setting. I discovered that whereas the advent of Islam in the northern part of the region (North Africa) unfolded relatively quickly through invasion, it entered the Sudanese Belt (an area from the red sea shore of modern-day Sudan in the East to today’s Mauritania by the Atlantic Ocean in the West) more gradually via trade relations and the influence of Sufi sheikhs. They lived with the people indigenous to the area and seamlessly weaved themselves into the fabric of the societies they came to counsel. This paper argues that the areas where Sufi Islam is present have been largely shielded from extremist ideologies, and the reverse is true for North Africa, where Islam arrived in a relatively short period of invasion. The argument is presented by looking at the example of modernday Sudan, which leads me to examine the phenomenon of Sufi orders entering political life through direct involvement by establishing political parties, which propelled them into direct confrontation with representatives of a different branch of the Islamic movement in politics, namely, the Islamists. Arguably, the strongest Islamist party in the Middle East and Africa of today is the Muslim Brotherhood. I look at the diverging values of the two. Where the Muslim Brotherhood is arguably seeking absolute political power through a rigid organizational structure, the Sufi orders have been integrating into the political life of the country of residence. I argue that this example constitutes an opportunity to renegotiate the social contract between different factions of the society and lay the foundation for a different Islamic narrative. One based on pluralism, tolerance and understanding, which has the potential to gradually transform the sociopolitical environment of the entire Sudanese Belt in this direction.
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Mobolaji, Adeola Obafemi, and Babatunde Raphael Ojebuyi. "Media Hype, Greener Pastures Syndrome, and Migration in Nigeria." In Handbook of Research on the Global Impact of Media on Migration Issues, 272–92. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-0210-5.ch016.
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The phenomenon of human migration has been described as a threat to resources and job distribution in Africa. It has been assumed that, apart from economic instability in Nigeria, portrayal of Europe and America, through films and Hip-Hop musical lyrics and videos, has also influenced most Nigerians to perceive migration as the only solution to their predicaments. However, extant studies are yet to empirically prove this hypothesis. Therefore, this chapter, through a content analysis, examines contents of Nigerian films and Hip-Hop music videos, as subsets of mass media discourse, with a view to establishing the nature of these contents in terms of how they could influence Nigerians' attitude towards migration to foreign countries. Findings show that contents of Nigerian films and Hip-Hop music videos contain rhetorical discourse with persuasive effect capable of luring Nigerian youths to foreign countries. This chapter also provides justification for the enactment of framework for policy formulation for effective control of media system and illegal migration by Nigerians.
Conference papers on the topic "Mass media – Influence – Africa, North"
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Johnson, Beth A. "PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS OF WOMEN IN GEOLOGY IN 2016: THE INFLUENCE OF MASS MEDIA." In 50th Annual GSA North-Central Section Meeting. Geological Society of America, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2016nc-275173.
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