Reporting China in Africa by Herman Wasserman

Author:Herman Wasserman [Wasserman, Herman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367738785
Google: v97-zQEACAAJ
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2020-12-18T05:08:05+00:00

Data analysed and interviewees

‘Africa Live’is broadcast daily, in English. It consists of ‘African News’, with a weekly series of 30-minute documentary programmes, ‘Faces of Africa’ on Monday, and half an hour on ‘Talk Africa’ on Saturday, featuring interviews on current affairs in Africa.The examined programmes span the period from January (when it was launched) to the end of April 2012. Programmes from the archives on the CCTV website were downloaded and transcribed. For ‘African News’items (N = 283) every fifth day from 24.01.2012 to 30.04.2012 was transcribed and examined, so that the data from 21 days would cover each day of the week, for three weeks. The data were then checked sentence by sentence, summarised and categorised into negative, positive or neutral reports, following the key words of each item in their context (e.g., ‘war’, ‘blood, ‘death’ as negative; ‘celebration’, ‘boost’, ‘stable’ as positive; ‘sports’, ‘football’ as neutral). ‘Talk Africa’ was similarly transcribed from 15.01.2012 to 29.04.2012, summarised and examined for main themes. During the same period ‘Faces of Africa’was transcribed and examined for outstanding features.

Interviewees included three officials from the media industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; nine media professionals from CCTV, Xinhua News Agency, China Daily and Global Times; four media academics from Tsinghua University, China’s University of Communications and Renmin University in Beijing (2011, 2012); and four local and two Chinese employees of CCTV Africa in Nairobi (2012). Note that the author did not examine the validity of what was reported in the CCTV coverage, but focused on state media discourse for the values and norms it was trying to project.

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