Media, Diaspora and Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Introduction: Communicating Conflict from the Diaspora

   • Ola Ogunyemi

   Pages 1-16

3. Roles of Diasporic Media in Conflicts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Diaspora Journalism and Conflicts in Transnational Media Circuits

      • Ayo Oyeleye

      Pages 19-36

   3. The Diasporic Community’s Intervention in the Libya Uprising

      • Everett Ndlovu

      Pages 37-51

   4. Diaspora Media Role in Conflict and Peace Building from the Perspectives of Somali Diaspora in Canada

      • Brian Chama

      Pages 53-68

   5. An Exploration of Discourses of Peace and Conflict During Negotiations for Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity in the Diaspora Media

      • Tendai Chari

      Pages 69-85

4. Culture of Journalism and Conflicts

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Diasporic Online Radio and the Mediation of Zimbabwean Conflict/Crisis

      • Bhekinkosi Jakobe Ncube

      Pages 89-103

   3. Connected to Conflict; the Precariousness of Working in the Somali Media

      • Idil Osman

      Pages 105-118

   4. Dynamics of the Diasporic Syrian Media in Egypt: The Context and Perspectives

      • Alamira Samah F. Saleh

      Pages 119-136

   5. Representing Conflict: Gatekeeping Practices and Framing Devices of African Diasporic Press

      • Ola Ogunyemi

      Pages 137-152

5. Representation of Conflicts and Audiences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Representation of Darfur Conflict in Diasporic Media

      • Rokeshia Renné Ashley

      Pages 155-171

   3. The Media Use of Diaspora in a Conflict Situation: A Case Study of Venezuelans in Finland

      • Virpi Salojärvi

      Pages 173-188

   4. A Comparative Analysis of the Representation of Syrian Refugees in Turkish and Diasporic Media: The Case of “etilaf.org”

      • Burcu Kaya Erdem, Uğur Gündüz

      Pages 189-204

   5. Diasporic New Media and Conversations on Conflict: A Case of Zimbabwe Genocide Debates

      • Shepherd Mpofu

      Pages 205-221

   6. Online Communities, Conflict, and Diaspora: The Case of South Sudanese Women

      • Maha Bashri

      Pages 223-234

6. Back Matter

   Pages 235-240

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This edited collection argues that the connective and orientation roles ascribed to diasporic media overlook the wider roles they perform in reporting intractable conflicts in the Homeland. Considering the impacts of conflict on migration in the past decades, it is important to understand the capacity of diasporic media to escalate or deescalate conflicts and to serve as a source of information for their audiences in a competitive and fragmented media landscape. Using an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapters examine how the diasporic media projects the constructive and destructive outcomes of conflicts to their particularistic audiences within the global public sphere. The result is a volume that makes an important contribution to scholarship by offering critical engagements and analyzing how the diasporic media communicates information and facilitates dialogue between conflicting parties, while adding to new avenues of empirical case studies and theory development in comprehending the media coverage of conflict.

• Diaspora
• Journalism
• war
• conflict
• identity

• School of Journalism, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

  Ola Ogunyemi

Olatunji Ogunyemi is Principal Lecturer in journalism at the University of Lincoln, UK, and has extensive teaching and research experience in both the United Kingdom and overseas. He regularly publishes articles in journals and chapters in edited books and is the author of What Newspapers, Films, and Television do Africans Living in Britain See and Read? The Media of the African Diaspora.

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