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