Author: Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149859977X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe provides an empirical analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas T. Muneri examine the intersection between journalism, democracy, and human rights to historicize and critique past successes and failures that have played out in Zimbabwe’s past, as well as interrogate future challenges that await the nation’s quest for democratization. The authors examine what role citizen journalists, human rights activists, professional journalists, and social media dissents could potentially play toward ending the country’s current adversity. Scholars of journalism, media studies, communication, African studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.
Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe
Author: Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149859977X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe provides an empirical analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas T. Muneri examine the intersection between journalism, democracy, and human rights to historicize and critique past successes and failures that have played out in Zimbabwe’s past, as well as interrogate future challenges that await the nation’s quest for democratization. The authors examine what role citizen journalists, human rights activists, professional journalists, and social media dissents could potentially play toward ending the country’s current adversity. Scholars of journalism, media studies, communication, African studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149859977X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
Journalism, Democracy, and Human Rights in Zimbabwe provides an empirical analysis of Zimbabwe’s ongoing state of affairs. Bruce Mutsvairo and Cleophas T. Muneri examine the intersection between journalism, democracy, and human rights to historicize and critique past successes and failures that have played out in Zimbabwe’s past, as well as interrogate future challenges that await the nation’s quest for democratization. The authors examine what role citizen journalists, human rights activists, professional journalists, and social media dissents could potentially play toward ending the country’s current adversity. Scholars of journalism, media studies, communication, African studies, and political science will find this book particularly useful.
Democracy, Human Rights and the Media
Author: Sarah Helen Chiumbu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Press Freedom and Democracy in Zimbabwe
Author: Elin W. Andersen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Media, Public Discourse and Political Contestation in Zimbabwe
Author: Henning Melber
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The current situation in Zimbabwe under the ZANU-PF government shows increasing signs of abuse of power by those in political control. They also direct their desire to suppress criticism towards the media. Press organizations in private ownership have been closed down and journalists have been physically harassed, arrested and expelled. Laws are abused to regulate and manipulate public opinion by a policy of banning. Worldwide condemnation of the growing restrictions upon the freedom of expression goes hand in hand with the protests inside the country against the growing tendencies of totalitarian rule. Current events are critically reflected upon and the background to these developments is summarized in this publication. It is based on some of the contributions to a recent conference on Zimbabwe organized by the Nordic Africa Institute and offers insights into the contested space of public opinion in Zimbabwe. The critical analyses of current developments are there-by complemented with particular reference to the media sector in the ongoing battle for hegemonic control over the public sphere.
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
The current situation in Zimbabwe under the ZANU-PF government shows increasing signs of abuse of power by those in political control. They also direct their desire to suppress criticism towards the media. Press organizations in private ownership have been closed down and journalists have been physically harassed, arrested and expelled. Laws are abused to regulate and manipulate public opinion by a policy of banning. Worldwide condemnation of the growing restrictions upon the freedom of expression goes hand in hand with the protests inside the country against the growing tendencies of totalitarian rule. Current events are critically reflected upon and the background to these developments is summarized in this publication. It is based on some of the contributions to a recent conference on Zimbabwe organized by the Nordic Africa Institute and offers insights into the contested space of public opinion in Zimbabwe. The critical analyses of current developments are there-by complemented with particular reference to the media sector in the ongoing battle for hegemonic control over the public sphere.
African Media and the Digital Public Sphere
Author: O. Mudhai
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230621759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230621759
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
This book examines the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. It takes optimist, pragmatist-realist and pessimist stances on various political actors and institutions, from government units and political parties to civil society organizations and minority groups.
Digital Media, Globalisation and Human Rights
Author: Last Moyo
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Historical Dimensions of Democracy and Human Rights in Zimbabwe: Nationalism, democracy, and human rights
Author: Ngwabi Bhebe
Publisher: University of Zimbabwe Publications
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Zimbabwean human rights historiography often assumes that pre- colonial African politics were democratic; whilst colonialism implies a total denial of human rights. It further assumes that Zimbabwean nationalism was in essence a human rights movement; and that the liberation struggle, which led to the overthrow of colonial oppression, reinstated both human rights and democracy. This, the second volume on the historical dimensions of human rights in Africa, reconsiders questions of nationalism, democracy and human rights. It asks why the first 'democratic revolution' was frustrated in Africa, despite the democratic dimensions of the early nationalist movements. It considers possible causes of the resulting post-independence authoritarianism in Zimbabwe as centralism, top-down modernisation, or 'development'; and it reviews the outcomes of a commandist state. Common themes running through the book are the ambiguities and antitheses which concepts of nationalism and democracy imply; and the delicate, but necessary balancing which discourse on majoritarian democracy and human rights is bound to produce. This in-depth historical analysis by some of Zimbabwe's leading intellectuals and academics sheds essential light on some of the conflicts, traumas and human rights dilemmas that the country is experiencing at present.
Publisher: University of Zimbabwe Publications
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Zimbabwean human rights historiography often assumes that pre- colonial African politics were democratic; whilst colonialism implies a total denial of human rights. It further assumes that Zimbabwean nationalism was in essence a human rights movement; and that the liberation struggle, which led to the overthrow of colonial oppression, reinstated both human rights and democracy. This, the second volume on the historical dimensions of human rights in Africa, reconsiders questions of nationalism, democracy and human rights. It asks why the first 'democratic revolution' was frustrated in Africa, despite the democratic dimensions of the early nationalist movements. It considers possible causes of the resulting post-independence authoritarianism in Zimbabwe as centralism, top-down modernisation, or 'development'; and it reviews the outcomes of a commandist state. Common themes running through the book are the ambiguities and antitheses which concepts of nationalism and democracy imply; and the delicate, but necessary balancing which discourse on majoritarian democracy and human rights is bound to produce. This in-depth historical analysis by some of Zimbabwe's leading intellectuals and academics sheds essential light on some of the conflicts, traumas and human rights dilemmas that the country is experiencing at present.
Human Rights and the Media
Author:
Publisher: Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa (SAHRIT)
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Human Rights Trust of Southern Africa (SAHRIT)
ISBN:
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa
Author: Bruce Mutsvairo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137554509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137554509
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of technologies in driving change in Africa.
Media Laws in Zimbabwe
Author: Tawanda Hondora
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freedom of the press
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description