Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Beschreibung
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.
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.
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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Carol Azungi Dralega
Themen in »Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa«
Open Access Health communication COVID-19 Political economy of the media Pandemics and the media Media gagging Marginalization discourses Sub-Saharan Africa Regulatory frameworks Reporters Without Borders Intimidation of journalists