International Afro Mass Media: A Reference Guide

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This guide represents the first serious academic assessment of the relationships between peoples in Africa and of African descent and Afro mass media around the world. Experts on communications in sub-Saharan and North Africa and the Caribbean and African-American media in the United States characterize the settings and philosophical contexts for media in the countries that they survey; the development of often difficult relationships between government, society, and the media; the education and training of media personnel; and the implications of new technologies and future challenges. Designed for students, teachers, and professionals in communications and in the social sciences broadly. This comparative study of Afro mass media, the impact of social and political systems, of culture and ideology, of different communications mechanisms, and of special problems is designed for students, teachers, and professionals in all areas of communications and mass media, and in government, sociology, economics, and African and African-American studies.

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"The approach of surveying media worldwide based on a people's place of origin is unique and helpful...In his section on the vast area of Africa south of the Sahara, Cornelius Pratt's interweaving of the countries into subtopics makes for a well-structured and easy read, and he provides a blend of developmentalist and critical theory....[T]here is much to recommend in this book to researchers and media students at all levels."-Choice
The approach of surveying media worldwide based on a people's place of origin is unique and helpful...In his section on the vast area of Africa south of the Sahara, Cornelius Pratt's interweaving of the countries into subtopics makes for a well-structured and easy read, and he provides a blend of developmentalist and critical theory....[T]here is much to recommend in this book to researchers and media students at all levels.-Choice

Author Bio

JAMES PHILLIP JETER, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Division of Journalism, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, has written at length about African Americans and the mass media. KULDIP R. RAMPAL, Professor, Department of Communication, Central Missouri State University, was a professor in the Communications Programme at the National University of Singapore during the 1994-1995 year. VIBERT C. CAMBRIDGE, Associate Professor, School of Telecommunications, Ohio University, has conducted extensive research and written on Anglophone Caribbean mass communication, especially broadcasting history. CORNELIUS B. PRATT, Professor, College of Communication Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, has written expansively about communications and the mass media in sub-Saharan Africa.