Statebuilding Missions and Media Development

A Context-Sensitive Approach
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-06387-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 286 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding

This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South, and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development.

The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has in, and on, a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, including interviews, observations and social surveys, it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries, from the population’s point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented, which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study, it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore, the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up.

This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding, media studies, development studies and international relations in general.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomiak, Kerstin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Media development: The ideas behind the concept 2. Leadership and the media 3. Access to the media and trust in the media 4. The audience: Wishes and expectations 5. The journalists: Views, wishes and challenges 6. The conflict and the media 7. The host country and the international community Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Kerstin Tomiak is Assistant Professor at the American University of Kurdistan, Iraq. She holds a PhD degree from Cardiff University and has worked as a media expert for NATO in Afghanistan.