Dani Madrid-Morales

TL;DR: In recent years, concerns about the perceived increase in the amount of "fake news" have become prevalent in discussions about media and politics, particularly in the United States and Europe.

TL;DR: This article used data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy and found that Chinese media have little impact on students' information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward China are predominantly negative and argue that this stereotyping affects opinions about Chinese media.

Abstract: China’s footprint in Africa’s media sector over the last decade has reached dimensions that make it impossible to go unnoticed. In South Africa, one of the countries where this imprint is most diversified, Chinese media have been engaged in a varied range of activities, including content production and distribution, infrastructure development, direct investment in local media and training of journalists. Building on previous exploratory studies by the authors, this paper addresses an unresolved question in the study of China’s media internationalization: the impact on journalism. Using data from 20 semi-structured in-depth interviews with editors, journalists and policy makers, we investigate how much influence Chinese media exercise on journalism in South Africa. We present responses along three dimensions: consumption of and attitudes towards Chinese media, impact on local journalism and views about South Africa–China relations. Our data offer evidence that, despite having substantially increased their ...

TL;DR: In this paper, Chen et al. investigated the role of Chinese media in Africa and found that China has a long history of media engagement in foreign countries, which goes back to the founding years of the republic and ranges from international broadcasting (e.g., China Radio International) to publishing (e., Beijing Review) (Chang, 1989).