商品簡介
Drawn from direct primary research, this volume on media and politics in Eastern and Southern Africa provides students, policy makers and professionals working in the region with a concise overview of public opinion of media independence in the area and the influence of governments and non-governmental political actors on media access and content. Topics discussed include sectarianism and ethnicity in politics, regime legitimacy and the control of media, media policies and regulation, media infrastructure and social change, and media and the political economy of development. The volume includes several black and white photographs, charts, and data tables. Kalyango is the director of the Institute for International Journalism at Ohio University. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Yusuf Kalyango Jr. is Director of the Institute for International Journalism at Ohio University. He also heads the U.S. government-funded Study of the U.S. Institute (SUSI) on Journalism & Media at Ohio University. He joined the university in 2008 as Assistant Professor of Journalism in the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism, and earned his doctorate in journalism and political communication at the University of Missouri. He has published several peer-reviewed journal articles and academic book chapters, and has won several research conference paper awards at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) and at the International Communication Association (ICA).
