Abstract
Representations of events are particularly important when discussing issues of war and genocide. Diasporic media is a contingent aid in documenting such events and provides an important alternative for people who are victims of conflict to be aware of vital information and a tool to discuss the issues of diasporic groups. Existing scholarship has primarily focused on media coverage of conflict in Western news sources. This study aims to examine the representations of conflict in a diasporic media outlet, SudanTribune.com, particularly in the case of the War of Darfur. Informed by the alternative media theory, which posits that the role of small-scale, grassroots and non-commercially active media should be critical and speak for particular groups, this study explores how this type of media allows for people to tell their “own stories.”
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Ashley, R.R. (2017). Representation of Darfur Conflict in Diasporic Media. In: Ogunyemi, O. (eds) Media, Diaspora and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56642-9_10
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