Mass media in sub-Saharan Africa /

Bourgault (mass communication, Northern Michigan U.-Marquette) analyzes the historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and stylistic factors that have shaped media products in African radio, television, and newspapers. She investigates the three major influences of the precolonial legacy of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bourgault, Louise Manon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1995.
Subjects:
Mass media > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Médias > Afrique subsaharienne.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Mass media
Massenmedien
Massamedia.
Sub-Saharan Africa
Subsaharisches Afrika
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The precolonial legacy
  • The colonial legacy
  • Broadcast management
  • Radio broadcasting
  • Television broadcasting
  • Colonial history and postcolonial developments of the press
  • Discourse style, oral tradition, and the question of freedom in the press
  • The flowering of democracy and the press in the 1990s
  • Modernization, development, and the communitarian social agenda.

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