In a bid to review the existing objectives of development journalism in Africa with evolving development-related issues, a call has been made for entries for the production of a special textbook.
The proposed textbook with the title: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES AND PERSPECTIVES IN DEVELOPMENT JOURNALISM: A FOCUS ON AFRICA seeks to “redefine development journalism in relation to issues such as health challenge, earth and environmental problems, gender discrimination, in-equality in resource allocation, heightened un-employment, corruption and terrorism among others.”
Interested contributors are expected to send ‘contributions which should be original and innovative in content must be significantly relevant to African situation and may employ quantitative or qualitative methods at an advance level.’
We are therefore inviting scholarly outstanding and well researched chapter contributions that will extend the frontiers of our knowledge within a nation, region or comparatively among regions of Africa.
The editors of this book are: Professor Abiodun Salawu of the Department of Communication, North-West University, South Africa and Dr. Owolabi Toyosi, a former member, Editorial Board of Concord Group of Newspapers.
Areas of concentration include but not limited to the following:
- New technologies and role in development journalism
- Relationship between agenda setting and development journalism
- Social media and development journalism
- Issue of gender discrimination and development communication
- Development communication and socio-economic reforms
- Investigative journalism and community development
- Similarities and dissimilarities between trends in the 20th and 21st centuries development journalism
- Global economic declension and the impact on the development journalism
- Role of human development and capacity building in development journalism practice
- Interface of development journalism and good governance
- Interactive Trinity of development media, terrorism and politics
Contributions are should be submitted on-line to salawuabiodun@yahoo.com or toyowo2000@yahoo.com on or before May 30, 2015 with the reference format in APA 6th edition style.
The Contribution which should not be more than 8,000 words-including tables and bibliography is to include:
- Title
- Author’s name/ names
- Brief profile of author/s and
- E-mail address and institutional affiliation.
NOTE:
The preferred formatting of the contribution should be:
- Justified
- 1.5 spaced
- 12points Arial in Ms Word and an
- Abstract of not more than 200 words
