Helge Rønning
Biographic Data
| ID | 327359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helge Rønning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helge |
| FAMILY NAME | Rønning |
| SIGNATURE | RØNNING H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4087-6093 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political communication in East Africa
For a long time, the role of media and communication in African politics was relatively neglected. This neglect can, as Leila Demarest2 argues, to some extent be explained by the authoritarian turn that took place in many African countries after independence and the tight control of state governments on the press, as well as violent repression of dissenting voices. As Bruce Mutsvairo and Beschara Karim have shown in their edited volume on politic…
Constitutional referendums and the media in Africa
The article involves three main topics. The first deals with the role of referendums in relation to constitutional processes, and how they have become increasingly common, with a focus on African developments. The second topic is a description of the referendums in relation to the media coverage of the rejected constitutional change in Zimbabwe in 2000 and in Kenya 2005, and with subsequent elections in both countries shortly after, and then the …
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa
The purpose of this issue of Media Culture and Society is to discuss the possible role of social media in the struggle for democracy, against authoritarianism, and over hidden power structures. The articles included in this volume are meant to offer empirical interventions to beliefs, some of them unproven, on whether the emergence of new media technologies has driven Africa towards democratic change. Papers in this Special Issue cover a wide var…
Reflections on elections in a dominant party state
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelge Rønning Helge Rønning is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Half-orchestrated, half freestyle
The discussion of soft power in China can be dated back to 1992, the year Nye's Bound to lead was translated into Chinese and published in Mainland China. Chinese scholars urged that restrictions on civil society be lifted, since China's lack of voluntary associations and NGOs drastically hindered the development of citizen diplomacy that could serve as a critical agency in building up China's soft power. In recent years, China's strategic moves …
South–North perspectives
Marketers, publishers, editors
African journalism and the struggle for democratic media
Journalism in Africa is faced with many problems and obstacles. The most serious are threats to journalists’ safety, and attempts to curb the freedom of the press. There are daily reports coming out of the continent of journalists being arrested, beaten up and even killed by both governments and by criminals.1 According to the 2003 report by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) about 180 journalists were detained in Africa during 2002, and more than 8…
Systems of control and regulation
This article opens with a discussion of what is implied by the term ‘convergence’ in communications systems, linking it to a related process of divergence. An important aspect of the process of convergence is how systems of control and administration increasingly become a central element in converging media and communications systems. This applies both to issues related to freedom of expression and information, and copyright (or rather, authors’ …
Intellectual property rights and the political economy of culture
The domain of intellectual property rights, along with the regulations that govern them, has a steadily, almost visibly incremental bearing these days upon the ordinary lives of people across the globe, in the rich world and the poor and in the North and the South. Its influence has escalated to the point where for some it may mean the difference between life and death; on it are now founded industries in the first rank of corporate power and thr…
Democracy, civil society and the media in Africa in the Nineties. a discussion of the emergence and relevance of some analytical concepts for the understanding of the situation in Africa
The article argues that the relationship between state and civil society in an African context constitute a dialiectic between a weak state and a weak civil society. The question of the seperation between state and civil society in Africa cannot be understood apart from recent changes in Eastern Europe, with the demise of communism on the one hand, and the rise of neo‐liberalism on the other. Also, the state/society problematic in Africa is linke…
Martin Zerlang
Rebellion
Democracy, civil society and the media in Africa in the Nineties. a discussion of the emergence and relevance of some analytical concepts for the understanding of the situation in Africa
The article argues that the relationship between state and civil society in an African context constitute a dialiectic between a weak state and a weak civil society. The question of the seperation between state and civil society in Africa cannot be understood apart from recent changes in Eastern Europe, with the demise of communism on the one hand, and the rise of neo‐liberalism on the other. Also, the state/society problematic in Africa is linke…
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa
The purpose of this issue of Media Culture and Society is to discuss the possible role of social media in the struggle for democracy, against authoritarianism, and over hidden power structures. The articles included in this volume are meant to offer empirical interventions to beliefs, some of them unproven, on whether the emergence of new media technologies has driven Africa towards democratic change. Papers in this Special Issue cover a wide var…
Marketers, publishers, editors
South–North perspectives
Intellectual property rights and the political economy of culture
The domain of intellectual property rights, along with the regulations that govern them, has a steadily, almost visibly incremental bearing these days upon the ordinary lives of people across the globe, in the rich world and the poor and in the North and the South. Its influence has escalated to the point where for some it may mean the difference between life and death; on it are now founded industries in the first rank of corporate power and thr…
Rebellion
Martin Zerlang
Democracy, civil society and the media in Africa in the Nineties. a discussion of the emergence and relevance of some analytical concepts for the understanding of the situation in Africa
The article argues that the relationship between state and civil society in an African context constitute a dialiectic between a weak state and a weak civil society. The question of the seperation between state and civil society in Africa cannot be understood apart from recent changes in Eastern Europe, with the demise of communism on the one hand, and the rise of neo‐liberalism on the other. Also, the state/society problematic in Africa is linke…
African journalism and the struggle for democratic media
Journalism in Africa is faced with many problems and obstacles. The most serious are threats to journalists’ safety, and attempts to curb the freedom of the press. There are daily reports coming out of the continent of journalists being arrested, beaten up and even killed by both governments and by criminals.1 According to the 2003 report by Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) about 180 journalists were detained in Africa during 2002, and more than 8…
Systems of control and regulation
This article opens with a discussion of what is implied by the term ‘convergence’ in communications systems, linking it to a related process of divergence. An important aspect of the process of convergence is how systems of control and administration increasingly become a central element in converging media and communications systems. This applies both to issues related to freedom of expression and information, and copyright (or rather, authors’ …
Intellectual property rights and the political economy of culture
The domain of intellectual property rights, along with the regulations that govern them, has a steadily, almost visibly incremental bearing these days upon the ordinary lives of people across the globe, in the rich world and the poor and in the North and the South. Its influence has escalated to the point where for some it may mean the difference between life and death; on it are now founded industries in the first rank of corporate power and thr…
Marketers, publishers, editors
Half-orchestrated, half freestyle
The discussion of soft power in China can be dated back to 1992, the year Nye's Bound to lead was translated into Chinese and published in Mainland China. Chinese scholars urged that restrictions on civil society be lifted, since China's lack of voluntary associations and NGOs drastically hindered the development of citizen diplomacy that could serve as a critical agency in building up China's soft power. In recent years, China's strategic moves …
South–North perspectives
Reflections on elections in a dominant party state
Additional informationNotes on contributorsHelge Rønning Helge Rønning is Professor in the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Political communication in East Africa
For a long time, the role of media and communication in African politics was relatively neglected. This neglect can, as Leila Demarest2 argues, to some extent be explained by the authoritarian turn that took place in many African countries after independence and the tight control of state governments on the press, as well as violent repression of dissenting voices. As Bruce Mutsvairo and Beschara Karim have shown in their edited volume on politic…
Constitutional referendums and the media in Africa
The article involves three main topics. The first deals with the role of referendums in relation to constitutional processes, and how they have become increasingly common, with a focus on African developments. The second topic is a description of the referendums in relation to the media coverage of the rejected constitutional change in Zimbabwe in 2000 and in Kenya 2005, and with subsequent elections in both countries shortly after, and then the …
The Janus face of social media and democracy? Reflections on Africa
The purpose of this issue of Media Culture and Society is to discuss the possible role of social media in the struggle for democracy, against authoritarianism, and over hidden power structures. The articles included in this volume are meant to offer empirical interventions to beliefs, some of them unproven, on whether the emergence of new media technologies has driven Africa towards democratic change. Papers in this Special Issue cover a wide var…
Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (6 works) · Media studies (5 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works)