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The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press: The Influence of Global News Organisations

The Image of Africa in Ghana’s Press is a comprehensive and highly analytical study of the impact of foreign news organisations on the creation of an image of Africa in its own press. Identifying a problematic focus on the Western media in previous studies of the African media image, Serwornoo uses the Ghanaian press as a case study to explore the effects of centuries of Afro-pessimistic discourse in the foreign press on...

Keywords:: Afro-pessimism, image of Africa, Africa, Social sciences, journalism, 1H (Africa), Ghana, Western media, media studies, newsworthiness, HIS001050 (HISTORY / Africa / West)., J (Society and social sciences), news organisations, KNTJ (Press and journalism), postcolonial theory, journalism studies, JFD (Media studies), LAN008000 (Language Arts & Disciplines : Journalism), intermedia agenda setting, SOC052000 (Social Science : Media Studies), Press, ethnography

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Humanities / Journalism

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Material Type:: Open (Access) Textbook
Date Added to MERLOT:: January 5, 2021
Date Modified in MERLOT:: January 5, 2021
Author:: Michael Serwornoo
Submitter:: Open Book Publishers
Primary Audience:: College Upper Division, Graduate School, Professional
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