The appeal of African broadcast web sites to African Diasporas: a case study of the United Kingdom

Ogunyemi, Olatunji (2006) The appeal of African broadcast web sites to African Diasporas: a case study of the United Kingdom. Journal of Black Studies, 36 (3). pp. 334-351. ISSN 1552-456

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Abstract

The diversification of African broadcast media into online services provides a vehicle for African diasporas to use not only for interactive communication but also for retrieving, sharing, displaying, and storing audiovisual information about their cultural practices and news about political and socioeconomic issues within their home and host countries. This study uses content analysis and audience survey to examine the content features of some African broadcastWeb sites and their appeal to the African diasporas, on one hand, and to explore the awareness, motivation, and the content preference of the African diasporas on the other. It found little evidence of content differentiation between the Web sites and low audience awareness of their services but reveals a cluster of audience-preferred content features.

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Additional Information: The diversification of African broadcast media into online services provides a vehicle for African diasporas to use not only for interactive communication but also for retrieving, sharing, displaying, and storing audiovisual information about their cultural practices and news about political and socioeconomic issues within their home and host countries. This study uses content analysis and audience survey to examine the content features of some African broadcastWeb sites and their appeal to the African diasporas, on one hand, and to explore the awareness, motivation, and the content preference of the African diasporas on the other. It found little evidence of content differentiation between the Web sites and low audience awareness of their services but reveals a cluster of audience-preferred content features.
Keywords: Diaspora, Interactivity, Content features, Audience preference
Subjects: P Mass Communications and Documentation > P500 Journalism
Divisions: College of Arts > Faculty of Media, Humanities & Performance > Lincoln School of Journalism
Depositing User: Bev Jones
Date Deposited: 22 Jun 2007
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2011 16:12
URI: http://eprints.lincoln.ac.uk/id/eprint/649

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