Research Catalog

Title

Communication in an era of global conflicts : principles and strategies for 21st century Africa / edited by Ritchard T. M'Bayo, Chuka Onwumechili, Bala A. Musa ; foreword by Ali A. Mazrui.

Publication

Lanham : University Press of America, c2009.

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Additional Authors

• M'Bayo, Ritchard.
• Musa, Bala A.
• Onwumechili, Chuka.

Description

xi, 395 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Communication > Africa
• Conflict management > Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Attribution, psychodynamics, and communication behaviors of conflict actors / Ritchard T. M'Bayo -- Media messages, sins of distortion, and signs of wisdom / Ali A. Mazrui -- Agenda-setting, African media, and conflict / Eronini R. Megwa -- Framing theory and conflict transformation in Rwanda and Bosnia / Bala A. Musa -- Professional and organizational influences on conflict reporting / Ritchard T. M'Bayo -- Media messages, the academy, and the Internet / Ali A. Mazrui -- Global media and changing news practices / Mohammed Musa -- Conflict, globalization, and the New World Information and Communication Order / Nosa Owens-Ibie & Abigail O. Ogwezzy -- Threat perceptions and security in the West African subregion / Joses Gani Yoroms -- Virtual communication and the role of diasporic communities in conflict mediation / Bala A. Musa -- Harnessing the power of traditional and modern media systems to avert conflicts in Africa / Ritchard T. M'Bayo [and others] -- Conflict and conflict resolution in African folklore / Christine Oduor-Ombaka -- The press as tools and casualties of political conflicts in Nigeria / Abiodun Salawu, Sola Isola -- The mass media and the establishment of peace as path to sustainable development in Africa / Matt Mogekwu -- The mass media and ethnic conflict in West Africa / Emeka J. Okoli -- Social conflict, communication, and youth in Tanzania / Nicholls K. Boas -- Negotiating the thorny road of conflict as Nigeria opens its communications market to private interests / Chuka Onwumechili -- Global communication media and the replication of internal conflicts in Northern Nigeria / Ogu Sunny Enemaku -- Conflict and ferment in internal communication / Ephraim A. Okoro -- Multinational corporations, community relations, and the Niger Delta conflict / Abigail O. Ogwezzy -- Poverty, professionalism, and the challenges of democratization among conflicted print media journalists in Nigeria / Nosa Owens-Ibie -- Language of conflict and the coverage of global terrorism in Kenyan mass media 1998-2005 / Benson Oduor Ojwang -- Managing conflict in Nigeria through television / Olufemi Onabajo.

ISBN

• 076184094X
• 9780761840947

LCCN

^^2008926049

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library