Book chapter
Telling Whose Stories?
A Companion to Media Authorship, pp.158-180
Wiley‐Blackwell
03/15/2013
DOI: 10.1002/9781118505526.ch8
Abstract
This chapter presents the challenges on the implication of strong author agency in popular discussions of self‐representational media. While the idea of disadvantaged groups telling their own stories is exciting and laudable, scholars have consistently found that media production is a complex and contested process that is affected by a number of factors, including ideology, organizational policies, and routines. The chapter explores these ideas through an examination of young media producers who live in two of Nairobi's largest slums: Kibera and Mathare. While their media production activities are far removed from the industrial forces of the oft‐theorized and oft‐demonized Hollywood, these activities are still complicated by a variety of factors, including constraints that exist within the nonprofit industry, the producers' communities, their organizations, and themselves. Further, the chapter presents the challenges on the ownership model of stories, and discusses self‐representational media authorship.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Telling Whose Stories?
- Creators
- Brian Ekdale - University of Iowa
- Contributors
- Jonathan Gray (Editor) - University of Wisconsin–MadisonDerek Johnson (Editor) - University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- A Companion to Media Authorship, pp.158-180
- DOI
- 10.1002/9781118505526.ch8
- Publisher
- Wiley‐Blackwell; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/15/2013
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Public Policy Center (Archive); School of Journalism and Mass Communication
- Record Identifier
- 9984283725002771
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