Periodismo

L'information se trouve aujourd'hui au centre de la construction de savoirs. Le professeur documentaliste est appelé à former les élèves à rechercher l'information, étape indispensable avant toute exploitation et acquisition de connaissances. Il s'agit pour l'enseignement secondaire de prendre de plus en plus en compte de la nécessité de former les élèves aux méthodes de travail et de leur "livrer une technologie du travail intellectuel".

Radio has been called 'Africa's medium'. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the 'third wave' of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low literacy levels. This sets it apart from other media platforms in facilitating political debate, shaping identities and assisting listeners as they negotiate the challenges of everyday life on the continent.

Radio in Africa breaks new ground by bringing together essays on the multiple roles of radio in the lives of listeners in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to the history of radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as Angola and South Africa. Others – such as the essay on Mali, gender and religion – show how radio throws up new tensions yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics.

A number of essays look to radio's current role in creating listening communities that radically shift the nature of the public sphere. Essays on the genre of the talk show in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa point to radio's role in creating a robust public sphere. Radio's central role in the emergence of informed publics in fragile national spaces is covered in essays on the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. The book also highlights radio's links to the new media, its role in resistance to oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, and points in several cases – for example in the essay on Uganda – to the importance of African languages in building modern communities that embrace both local and global knowledge.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Soundscapes of Radio in Africa

I. RADIO, POPULAR DEMOCRACY AND NEW PUBLICS

Wisdom J. Tettey: Talk Radio and Politics in Ghana: Exploring Civic and (Un)Civil Discourse in the Public Sphere

Christopher Joseph Odhiambo: From Diffusion to Dialogic Space: FM Radio Stations in Kenya

Dumisani Moyo: Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe Crisis through Clandestine Radio

Dorothea E. Schulz: Equivocal Resonances: Islamic Revival and Female Radio 'Preachers' in Urban Mali

II. THE CULTURES OF RADIO: LANGUAGES OF THE EVERYDAY

Scott Straus: What Is the Relationship between Hate Radio and Violence?
Rethinking Rwanda's 'Radio Machete'

Winston Mano: Why Radio is Africa's Medium of Choice in the Global Age

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi: Bantustan Identity, Censorship and Subversion on Northern Sotho Radio under Apartheid, 1961s0980s

David B. Coplan: South African Radio in a Saucepan

Dina Ligaga: Radio Theatre: The Moral Play in the Historical Context of State Control and Censorship in Kenya

Liz Gunner: Zulu Radio Drama and the Modern Subject – Restless Identities in South Africa in the 1970s

III. RADIO AND COMMUNITY: VOICES OF CHANGE

Stephanie Wolters: Radio Okapi – 100% Congolese

Tanja Bosch: Talk Radio, Democracy and the Public Sphere: 567MW in Cape Town

Maria Frahm-Arp: Radio and Religion: The Shaping of Religious Discourse

Stephen R. Davis: Voices from Without: The African National Congress, its Radio, its Allies and Exile, 1960-1984

Marissa J. Moorman: Airing the Politics of Nation: Radio in Angola, Past and Present

David Smith: Radio in Zones of Conflict – Abnormal Measures for Abnormal Circumstances

Monica B. Chibita: Multiple Publics, Multiple Languages: Radio and the Contestations of Broadcasting Language Policy in Uganda

Vivimos en el mundo de la información y el conocimiento, pero, aunque manejamos cotidianamente móviles y ordenadores, no entendemos del todo lo que esto significa.
En un libro ambicioso y apasionante, James Gleick comienza contándonos una historia que ha cambiado la naturaleza de la conciencia humana, desde los tambores africanos o la invención de la ordenación alfabética de las palabras hasta los avances más recientes de la tecnología informática. Examina después cómo se desarrollaron las ideas en que se ha basado este avance, llevándonos, dice el profesor Nunberg, “del demonio de Maxwell al teorema de Gödel, de los agujeros negros a los genes egoístas”, explicando con claridad los más complejos principios, e ilustrándolos con las vidas de sus protagonistas, de Charles Babbage a Alan Turing o a Claude Shannon. Y concluye analizando lo que representa para nuestras vidas la agobiadora inundación de informaciones que nos rodea.

Como ha dicho Josh Rothman, este es “un libro bellamente escrito y muy documentado que consigue sorprendernos continuamente”.

Durante los últimos años las redes sociales han protagonizado una inmersión definitiva en las rutinas de los medios y en las pautas de consumo informativo de la audiencia. La recomendación social se ha convertido en un paradigma periodístico que los medios deben aprender a manejar. Este libro aborda, a través de numerosos casos de estudio, los desafíos que el nuevo escenario mediático presenta a los estudiantes de Periodismo en particular y a periodistas en general. La gestión de la identidad online y las redes de periodistas como nuevo modelo de medio son algunos de los nuevos ingredientes de ese escenario.

Following the end of the Cold War and recent terrorist attacks – such as 9/11, the 2105 London Bombings or Beslan – the presumed existence of an Islamic threat has been discussed and researched extensively. What lacks in the current literature is any substantive comparative, cross-national research on media discourse on Islam, the war on terror and national identity, particularly focusing on television news – still the principal and most trusted source of information for most of the world's population. Focusing on British, French and Russian television news coverage of Islam as a security threat, the book synthesizes approaches from political science and cultural studies, providing the first comparative, interdisciplinary account of how television broadcasting integrates discourses on Islam into distinct, nationally oriented, representational systems. The authors assess how the transfer of Islam-related meaning across national media landscapes shapes, and is shaped by, those discourses.

Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution
The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from Middle East Report—the premier journal covering the region—that offer unrivaled analysis of the major social and political trends that underpinned these tumultuous events.

Starting with the momentous eighteen days of street protest that compelled Mubarak's resignation, the volume moves back in time to plumb the state's strategies of repression and examine the mounting dissent of workers, democracy advocates, anti-war activists, and social and environmental campaigners. Leading analysts of Egypt detail the demographic and economic trends that produced wealth for the few and impoverishment for the many. The collection brings clear-headed, first-hand understanding to bear on a moment of intense hope and uncertainty in the Arab world's most populous nation.

La Columna. Periodismo y literatura en un género plural es el estudio más completo que existe sobre el género periodístico ‘Columna’.
La Columna —un género creado «desde el periódico y para el periódico»— se encuentra a medio camino entre el periodismo y la literatura, entre la realidad y la ficción, entre los géneros periodísticos de opinión y los creativos.
Antonio López Hidalgo, reputado experto en la materia, aborda a lo largo de estas páginas aspectos tales como:
—Los elementos paralingüísticos que definen la columna.
—Su estilo creativo.
—Los temas que trata: la Columna es un género libre, por ello el columnista lo mismo recurre a la realidad y a los acontecimientos informativos que a narraciones ficticias.
—Su estructura.

Y es que, como bien dice el autor, la columna «está escrita a sangre, como un poema; pero también es fruto de la reflexión, como el editorial; y de la documentación y la creatividad, como el reportaje. Es un cóctel variado, un brebaje completo de fórmulas no escritas».
No podemos dejar de reseñar aquí esa capacidad infinita que la columna tiene dentro del estrecho margen en el que el periodista o el escritor escriben. Es un género libre, sin corsés, que confiere al columnista el poder para «contar lo que no ocurre, lo que se queda oculto detrás de los acontecimientos, lo que no se percibe a simple vista, lo que no está escrito en las páginas de información».

Estudio de las herramientas de participación en la prensa digital de Argentina, Colombia, España, Estados Unidos, Israel, México, Perú, Portugal y Venezuela.

Este libro presenta los resultados de un estudio de las fórmulas de participación que ofrecen una selección de diarios digitales de referencia de varios países. La investigación se basa en el análisis de las herramientas participativas, así como de la visibilidad que se otorga a los contenidos elaborados por los usuarios y las modalidades de control practicadas por los diarios. El trabajo, fruto de la colaboración de expertos de varias universidades y centros de investigación, parte de la necesidad acuciante de fijar el momento para analizar cómo se articula la participación en los sitios periodísticos y reflexionar sobre los cauces que se abren a la expresión de ia ciudadanía a través de los nuevos medios de comunicación.

Herramienta indispensable para conocer la realidad de una de las áreas informativas más importantes. La actualidad deportiva alcanza altas cuotas de interés popular y requiere un enfoque singular y en profundidad. Esta obra analiza todos los aspectos que envuelven los fenómenos deportivos y el tratamiento que ha de ofrecer un profesional de los medios de comunicación, mostrándose como una referencia imprescindible en esta especialidad.

Book synopsis
This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism – a term the editors view as disputed terrain. Journalists from a uniquely wide range of countries and regions – including Britain, Canada, Cape Verde, Finland, India, Ireland, Latin America Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, the United States – are covered as are a range of subject areas. These are divided into sections titled Disputed Terrains: Crossing the Boundaries between Fact, Reportage and Fiction, Exploring Subjectivities: The Personal is Where We Start From, Long-form Journalism: Confronting the Conventions of Daily War Journalism, Colonialism, Freedom Struggles and the Politics of Reportage, and Transforming Conventional Genres. The collection will be of interest to students of journalism, media studies, literary studies, and culture and communication as well as all those interested in exploring the literary possibilities of journalism at its best.
About the author(s)/editor(s)
Richard Lance Keeble (PhD, City University) is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln and currently Acting Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism. He is the winner of the National Teaching Fellowship 2111 – the highest award for teachers in higher education in the UK. He is the author and editor of 21 books including The Newspapers Handbook (2005, fourth edition); Ethics for Journalists (2008, second edition); and The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler). He is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
John Tulloch is Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics (CEMPRE). From 1997-2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster. He has taught, designed and validated journalism programmes in a number of international settings including India, Yemen, Oman, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and nine European countries. Prof. Tulloch has edited two books and authored numerous journal articles and chapters on media subjects.
Reviews
«This text uses literary journalism as a prism through which to critique journalism past and present, bringing journalism face to face with important critical debates facing not only societies in general but aspiring journalists. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to all journalists, consumers of journalism and anybody concerned with the potential of this most varied of cultural products» (Martin Conboy, Professor of Journalism History, Sheffield University)
Series
Mass Communication and Journalism. Vol. 10
General Editor: Lee B. Becker