Routledge Handbook of Media and Communication in the Global South

Bringing together insights from across the social sciences, the Routledge Handbook of Media and Communication in the Global South provides a comprehensive and critically engaged overview of the power, practice, and politics of media and communication in the Global South. At a time when digital platforms simultaneously amplify new voices from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and beyond while reproducing structural inequalities, this handbook offers an intellectually rigorous and geographically expansive resource for scholars, students, and policymakers seeking to understand these contradictions.

Key themes within the book include:

• the Global South in the context of global media flows and geopolitics
• postcolonial and decolonial media theories from the Global South
• political economy, platform governance, and digital colonialism
• conflict journalism, war and peace framing, and media in crisis contexts
• feminist media studies, gender representation, and online violence
• creative, indigenous, and alternative media practices
• development communication and subaltern resistance
• media infrastructure, ICT, and data sovereignty

Demonstrating the different ways in which international and national media imagine, construct, and contest the Global South and its diverse communities, this handbook provides an in-depth exploration of media representation, discursive power, and communicative resistance across regions and contexts. Multidisciplinary and international in scope, it will be of considerable interest to policymakers, researchers, and students of media studies, journalism, development, public policy, international studies, and related fields worldwide.