Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Discusses innovative ways in which media in fragile regimes are responding to health crises
- Brings up gender, social justice, human rights violation, press regulation, corruption, and mental health concerns
- Highlights concerns like misinformation, fake news, journalists’ safety, financial sustainability & viability issues
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About this book
This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as mental health---simmering across the subcontinent. The chapters fill knowledge gaps, highlight innovations, unpack the complexities surrounding the media ecosystem in times of health crises. They explore, among other issues, the politics of public health communication; infodemics; existential threats to media viability; draconian legislations; threats to journalists/journalism; COVID-related entrepreneurship, marginalization, and more.
This is a timely resource for academics, advocacy groups, media practitioners and policy makers working on crises and media reporting, not just in Africa but anywhere in the global South.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Digital and Political Economy of the Media
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Journalism Practice, Audiences and News Discourses
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Regulation, Representation and Marginalisation
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Angella Napakol (PhD) is a Senior Lecturer and Head the School of Communication, Uganda Christian University. She holds a PhD from the University of Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa, an MS in Mass Communication from North Dakota State University, USA, and a BA in Social Sciences from Makerere University, Uganda. She teaches in both undergraduate and graduate communication and journalism programs at the Faculty of Journalism, Media and Communication. Her key research interests include: health communication; humanitarian, risk and crisis communication; social change communication and intercultural communication.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Editors: Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95100-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95099-6Published: 25 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95102-3Published: 25 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95100-9Published: 24 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 283
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Sociology, Media and Communication, Science and Technology Studies, Public Health