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

Authors

Brian Chama, Sheridan CollegeFollow

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Role

Brian Chama contributed the chapter "Diaspora Media Role in Conflict and Peace Building from the Perspectives of Somali Diaspora in Canada" to the book Media, Diaspora and Conflict.

Document Type

Book Chapter

Description

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.

ISBN

978-3319566412

Publication Date

2017

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Keywords

diaspora media, Somali diaspora, Canada, peace building, conflict resolution

Disciplines

Communication | Journalism Studies

Faculty

Pilon School of Business

Copyright

© Palgrave Macmillan

SOURCE Citation

Chama, Brian, "Diaspora Media Role in Conflict and Peace Building from the Perspectives of Somali Diaspora in Canada" (2017). Books & Chapters. 12.
https://source.sheridancollege.ca/pilon_book/12

Original Citation

Chama, B. (2017). Diaspora media role in conflict and peace building from the perspectives of Somali diaspora in Canada. In O. Ogunyemi (Ed.), Media, diaspora and conflict (pp. 53-68). Palgrave Macmillan.