Still the Dark Continent: A Content Analysis of Research About Africa and by African Scholars in 18 Major Communication-Related Journals

Miller, Ann Neville; Deeter, Christine; Trelstad, Anne; Hawk, Matthew; Ingram, Grace; Ramirez, Annie

doi:10.1080/17513057.2013.787112

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“…This is evidenced by European historical literatures that have weaponized the storytelling tradition against African cultures. An example is Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which constructed and proliferated the fictional appeal of Africa as the dark continent (Bassil, 2011;Miller et al, 2013).…”

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In an era of uncertainty, fake news, and declining trust of government institutions and media, a renewed confidence in experts, including CEOs willing to speak out on important social issues, is emerging. According to the 2019 Edelman Trust Barometer trust in news and government is still low. Globally only 64% of respondents had trust in traditional media. Perhaps even more worrisome is that 73% of respondents feared false information or fake news being used as a weapon. Similarly, only 49% of the mass population believe they and their families will be better off in the next five years. What is interesting is these same respondents embrace the idea that organizations, particularly businesses, can be agents of change. The majority of respondents (75%) trust the organizations for which they work, and 73% of respondents believe a corporation can earn profits while also work to make the economic and social conditions of the community in which it operates better. In addition, about 76% of respondents want CEOs to take the lead when policy change is needed. As this shift is occurring, organizations' leaders are increasingly held responsible for more than just products, services, and profits; now "they stand up for our [communication professionals'] values on behalf of all stakeholders-including employees, customers, partners, community and the planet" (duBrowa, 2018, para. 7). What I find most encouraging in the report is the embrace of change. News engagement rose by 22 points meaning people are taking the time and effort to be informed about issues. In addition, respondents state their employers have a greater purpose than making profits, and through shared action the respondents themselves see how they are driving societal change. Of course, along with this shift also come varying emotionsanger, relief, anguish, disappointment, fear, and perhaps even hope. These emotions will also have to be given attention to be understood and harnessed to drive positive change. Organizational leaders prepared to embrace

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“…Li and Tang (2012) conducted a meta-analysis over mass communication research on China between 2000 and 2010, analyzing 159 articles published in 20 major communication journals. Miller, Deeter, Trelstad, Hawk, Ingram, and Ramirez (2013) investigated the trend of 5,228 articles published in 18 leading communication journals from 2004-2010, focusing on African studies. The results indicated that very little research was conducted about African communication and very few African-affiliated authors produced research in this field.…”

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Research and Trends in the Field of Social Media from 2012 to 2016: A Content Analysis of Studies in Selected Journals

Bakan¹,

Han²

2019

Estud. Mensaje Period.

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This paper aims at making a trend analysis of 1142 studies in the field of social media that were published in 12 SSCI journals from 2012 to 2016. Citation and content analyses were used to investigate the trends. Among the 4391 articles published in these journals, 1142 articles were identified as being related to the topic of social media. In the analysis, first, these articles were crossanalyzed by published years, journal, research topic, and citation count. Next, these articles on different sub-topics were analyzed according to their research settings, participants, research design types, and research methods.

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“…HRM and other employee management issues in these countries have therefore been explored and always tagged as models to emulate. Miller et al (2013) attributed reasons of lack of appropriate African research approaches from both the local level and foreign influence. At the local level, it is believed that many African academics work in institutions that are not financially endowed and therefore provide few activities for faculty members to engage in research while libraries are poorly resourced (Teferra, 2004).…”

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“…These systems have been designed to deliberately deny Africans of management development programmes as they were not expected to assume managerial responsibilities (Oppong, 2013a). Based on the lack of attention to the African culture and management systems, argument could be advanced that ‘the inattention to Africa arises out of a parallel ideological devaluation of African culture’ (Miller et al, 2013: 319). African research into African issues, therefore, needs to be more localized, contextual and even ideological (Marais, 2011).…”

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“…Whereas Stanley (1878) referred to the search for ivory trade, Conrad’s metaphor described his search for David Livingston. These two publications, especially that of Conrad (1902), painted a gloomy picture about Africa to the European world at that time (Miller et al, 2013). However, the metaphor referred just to the Congo River basin in Central Africa, portraying the ignorance of European world at that time about anything beyond a narrow strip of land on the African continent.…”

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Still the Dark Continent? Towards contextual methodological approaches to management development research in foreign multinational firms in Africa

Oppong

2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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Following the widespread implementation of liberalization policies across the continent and resultant 'subsidiarity' of the industrial sectors by mostly Western multinational firms, management development in Africa has been dominated by Western approaches. The alternative is contextualization of research approaches that take into account the cultural and societal values of the people being researched. The article therefore proposes two methodologies believed to be contextual to management development research in multinational firms in Africa. These include indigenous methodology and postcolonial methodology. The two methodologies are complemented by appropriate data collection and analytical approaches, which have also been suggested. Data for this conceptual paper were mainly from review of extant popular and academic literature. The article concludes that applying the proposed methodologies could help tackle the neocolonial influence in African industries to decolonize indigenous people from Western hegemony and management development approaches that do not tackle the development problems of indigenous managers. Theoretically, the article contributes to literature on postcolonial management and organizational studies and, practically, contributes to alternative and appropriate approach to research into managerial skills development problems in Africa.

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Still the Dark Continent: A Content Analysis of Research About Africa and by African Scholars in 18 Major Communication-Related Journals

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