Western television news from the Frontline States

Paterson, Christopher J.

doi:10.1080/02560054.1991.9653057

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“…Ecquid Novi revealed entrepreneurial fl air and networking strategy in developing not only the penetration of the journal, but also in cultivating international networks benefi ting its host institutions. Even critical authors were encouraged to publish in a journal perceived to be conservative; their work started appearing since the late 1980s (cf., e.g., James, 1987;Paterson, 1991;Williams, 2000). This led to a greater interaction between the so-called "mieliedriehoek" (maize triangle) and "Marxist/radical" pockets.…”

Section: Ecquid Novi: Let the Tournament Beginmentioning

confidence: 95%

First and third person encounters:Ecquid Novi, theoretical lances and research methodology

Tomaselli¹

2004

Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies

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A number of epistemological skirmishes illustrating the nature of debate, and which comment on broader, often antagonistic, assumptions held by communication science vis-à-vis cultural studies, are discussed with regard to the author's own relationship with Ecquid Novi. The intention is to create a space for culturalist and ethnographic approaches vis-à-vis disciplinary journals known to be cautious with regard to submissions applying unconventional (i.e., from the humanities, or what it calls "subjective") approaches in comparison to what it holds to be "objective" science. This study examines how productive debate can occur from paradigmatic engagement. The two approaches discussed are communication science and culturalism. Autoethnography is discussed in relation to science, research and questions of what constitutes data, and it is argued that this method applied within culturalism facilitates an "objective" analysis of a "subjective" perspective. This article is not about Ecquid Novi per se, but is about memories of an epistemological relationship between the author and the editor of Ecquid Novi, as well as a particular reading of the journal in a particular historical context.

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Section: Ecquid Novi: Let the Tournament Beginmentioning

confidence: 95%

First and third person encounters:Ecquid Novi, theoretical lances and research methodology

Tomaselli¹

2004

Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies

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“…Scholars such as Chouliaraki (), Dahlgren and Chakrapani (), Fair (), Hawk (), and Mody () have argued that Africans are seen in the North as the most distant of Others. In studies of U.S. television coverage of Africa during mid‐1980s famines, it was found that information sources were generally non‐African, naturalizing the concept of Africa as a victim dependent upon Western aid, and reinforcing images of Western power and good will (Paterson, ; Rome‐Report, ). In a study of how U.S. media construct the topic of hunger in Africa, Kogen () concluded that some U.S. media have moved beyond simply failing to notice Africa, or presenting the United States as the solution, to dismissing the possibility of any active humanitarian role for the United States in Africa.…”

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Representation of China and the United States in Africa in Online Global News

Paterson

Nothias

2016

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article examines global representation of the primary continental imperialisms reshaping contemporary Africa: the parallel expansionist exercises of China (centering on commercial expansion) and of the United States (centering on military expansion). Our analysis assesses the current state of these continent-wide involvements and sets out the background of how US-African and Sino-African relationships have been portrayed by news media. We then analyze how both Chinese and US expansions in Africa are represented by three prominent global media organizations online: Al Jazeera English, BBC and CNN. This research concludes that global media report modern imperialism in Africa mostly in ways that support the imperial project rather than mobilize resistance toward it.

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“…He added that "it appears acceptable in the American media to view Africans, as well as many other non-Western peoples, as groups who live in tribes and/or individuals whose worldviews are prescribed by tribal definition" (p. 152). Paterson (1992) researched television coverage of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Angola, and Mozambique and suggested that these states were depicted as poor, starving, Marxist, and fighting U.S. allies. He added, "U.S. television has, since its inception, delivered to its viewers such a distorted and simplistic view of Africa that American ignorance of African geography, politics, and culture is hardly as bewildering as African visitors often find it to be" (p. 176).…”

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Gratifying the “Self” by Demonizing the “Other”

Taha

2014

Sage Open

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This qualitative study examines the U.S. media portrayals of African, Arab, and Islamic countries and sheds light on the response to these portrayals by a number of international students (Africans, Arabs, and Asians) in a middle-sized public university in the United States. The study uses Foucault’s power–knowledge constructs, Bhabha’s cultural difference, Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, and Said’s Orientalism as well the framing theory as a conceptual framework. It concludes that negative U.S. media portrayals of Africans, Arabs, and Asians were based on an Orientalist discourse and elicited negative reaction from the African, Arab, and Asian respondents.

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Western television news from the Frontline States

Cited by 4 publications

References 1 publication

First and third person encounters:Ecquid Novi, theoretical lances and research methodology

First and third person encounters:Ecquid Novi, theoretical lances and research methodology

Representation of China and the United States in Africa in Online Global News

Gratifying the “Self” by Demonizing the “Other”

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