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Friday\, April 29\, 202211:00 am - 12: 15 pm— Pacific Time (PT)Location: Online via Zoom< div>Free & open to the public. To register\, fill out the RSVP form below.< /div>
Starting in the mid-2000s\, Chinese State- and privately-owned media companies opera ting globally\, but particularly in the Global South\, began engaging more actively in a wide range of activities\, including infrastructure developme nt\, vocational training\, news production and content distribution\, onlin e and offline. One of the geographic areas where these efforts have been mo st felt is Africa. Against this backdrop\, this talk will make a case to de scribe the nature of mediated information flows between Africa and China\, and between China and Africa as perennially asymmetric. After providing an overview of the historical roots of said asymmetries\, the talk will zoom i n on the digital space\, where imbalances in the circulation of information are becoming more pronounced\, with relative limited contestation. Using a diverse range of examples\, including news coverage of Russia’s war in Ukr aine\, the circulation of Chinese kung-fu movies on satellite TV in Africa\ , and social media conversations during the early days of COVID-19\, this t alk will highlight the need to rethink media audiences’ agency in global fl ows of information.
Dani Madrid-Morales is a Lecturer at the Department of Journalism Studies\, The University of S heffield. Prior to this\, he was an Assistant Professor at the Valenti Scho ol of Communication\, University of Houston\, and a Hong Kong PhD Fellow\, at City University of Hong Kong. Dr. Madrid-Morales studies global politica l communication\, with a focus on the impact of new digital technologies in the production of State-sponsored news\, global public opinion\, and misin formation in the Global South. He has published extensively on Africa-China mediated relations\, particularly on the reception of Chinese media conten t in Kenya and South Africa. His latest book\, co-edited with Herman Wasser man\, is Disinformation in the Global South (Wiley).
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