Media in the Global Context

Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

• 1. Foreword - Ronald L. Jackson II.- 2. Terrorism as a Strategic Reporting Mechanism in African Media - Charles Okigbo & Okafor Blessing.- 3. Foreign Correspondents and the Image of Africa: The Coverage of Ethiopia in the 1930s - Charles Muiru Ngugi.- 4. African Media Coverage of Terrorism: A Case Study of Nigerian and East African Newspapers - Seseer P. Mou-Danha.- 5. One Culture, Different Perceptions: The Role of Politics in the work of Journalists in Two Arab Countries - Galander Mahmoud.- 6. African-American communities in the Press: Dissolving the Black identity - Alice, A. Tait.- 7. Mass Communication and Society Media, Terrorism, and Society: Perspectives and Trends in the Digital Age - Shahira Fahmy.- 8. Why all the hoopla? Fake News Reporting on Social Media Platforms and implications for Nation-State Building -E. Ngwainmbi.- 9. Social Media use among African Youth: Cultural setback orstep toward globalization - E. Ngwainmbi.- 10.Digital Media and Online Extremism among African Youth: Implications for cultural discontinuity and social cohesion - Adebayo Fayoyin.- 11. Reassessment of international media reporting of Africa’s protracted wars and conflicts -Adebayo Fayoyin.- 12. Confronting the lion with bare hands: The case of Anglophone Cameroonians political awakening - Kehbuma Langmia.- 13. China’s National Media Coverage of Counter-terrorism and its Netizens’ Reactions - Wei Sun.- 14. Young women and internet cafés in China: Risks and aspirations in a contested techno-social space - Janice Hua Xu.