13:30 - 15:00
Media and The Politics Of Representation
Room: Physics – Seminar Room
Stream: Media and Politics in Africa
Chair/s:
Fred Mudhai
13:30 - 13:45
We-A29 Media and Politics 2-P-001
For Whom Does the Media Speak Anymore: Revisiting the Ideal of the Media as the People's Watchman in Kenya Today
Tom Odhiambo
Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
13:45 - 14:00
We-A29 Media and Politics 2-P-002
Contested discourses of ‘Africa Rising’: The struggle for control of the image of the foreign ‘partner’
Chris Paterson1, Toussaint Nothias2
1University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, 2Stanford University, Stanford, United States
14:00 - 14:15
We-A29 Media and Politics 2-P-003
'Kill them before these cameras?' Strategic uses of global media in Wizard of the Crow
Penelope Claire Bicol Cartwright
University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom