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Title: | Media role in African changing electoral process: a political communication perspective |
Editors: | Nwokeafor, Cosmas Uchenna Langmia, Kehbuma |
Year: | 2014 |
Pages: | 229 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Lanham |
Publisher: | University Press of America |
ISBN: | 0761862544; 9780761862543; 0761862552; 9780761862550 |
Geographic terms: | Subsaharan Africa Nigeria Cameroon Kenya Ghana |
Subjects: | mass media elections Internet social media democracy election management bodies |
Abstract: | This book analyzes the role of mass media in African elections. It contains case studies from Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya and Ghana. Contributions: Introduction: critical overview of new media, media political systems and polyglot mediatocra{z}y & demo-cra{z}y: the African experience (Cosmas U. Nwokeafor); Internet/online media adoption in African elections (Charles Iheagwara); African politics and the mass media: evidence of the role of the media in elections (Fidelis Kpaduwa); Media and sustainable political development in Africa (Ephraim Okoro); Media power in elections: evidence of the role of agenda-setting theory in political communication in Nigeria's evolving democracy (Cosmas U. Nwokeafor); Media managerial practices and effective media coverage of the electoral process: the Nigerian experience (Matthew Uzukwu); The media and democracy in Nigeria: toward the ethics of social responsibility (Benjamin Arah); Transparency in the polls: a review of the role of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) in the April 2011 general elections in Nigeria (Cosmas U. Nwokeafor); Social media technology and the 2011 presidential election in Cameroon (Kehbuma Langmia); Communicating electoral information in recent elections in Cameroon: a sociolinguistic perspective (Isaiah Ayafor); Radio drama on a fertile ground for engineering democratic values in Sub-Saharan Africa (Victor N. Gomia); Understanding the effects of information communication technology and politics: a synthesized analysis of political participation in Kenya (Victor Wacham A. Mbarika); Media and political pluralism in Ghana's quest for sustainable democracy (Kwaku KB Attakora). [ASC Leiden abstract] |