Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Chika Onyenezi Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 84 ISBN: 9783659267284
Описание
This book is an attempt to look at the media double standing in reportage of conflicts in Africa and dissecting those reports with the aim of finding out the role media conglomerates play in African conflicts. An important study of the media at this information age with corrective approach, providing answers and raises critical questions to effectively study the role of the media in African conflicts is thus desirable. Africa has become an important political laboratory where the media focus on war, hunger and poverty. This research therefore is an inquest to dynamics of media activities in the African continent, with specific reference to Libya. Drawing from well-founded theories of Noam Chomsky et al; Walter Lippmann, McCombs, Shaw, Weaver and others who studied the media behaviour. This work which is based on qualitative in methodology, attempt to answer the question: what is the role of media in African conflicts is exploratory in strategy. The data were collected from sources...
