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StarTimes: China’s biggest player in the African mediascape

A short piece based on my research on the Chinese pay-TV operator StarTimes, which was published on Africa Is a Country.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on April 20, 2018 In English Media Asia

Chinese media struggle to overcome stereotypes of Africa

An op-ed I wrote for The Conversation on race and representations of Africa in the media in China.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on April 2, 2018 In English Media Asia

Teaching Ideas Presented at the 2017 AEJMC Conference in Chicago

A report on some of the things I took away from the event

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on August 20, 2017 In English Teaching

Chinese media are betting on Africa for their global expansion, but is anybody paying attention?

A guest post for the Blog of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on May 6, 2017 In English Media Research

Fisuras informativas en Corea del Norte

Sobre el impacto de las tecnologías digitales en los medios de comunicación

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on January 25, 2017 En Español Media Asia

Scraping YouTube data with and without Google's API

Finding an alternative to querying Google's API for a list of videos' metadata and avoiding the quotas and restrictions.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on Janaury 28, 2017 R Scraping

China Global Television Network (CGTN): old wine in new bottles?

China's international broadcasting, formerly known as CCTV-News, gets a makeover

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on December 31, 2016 In English Research Media

Afrobarometer: What do Africans think of China? (part 1)

Visualising perceptions of China in 30 African countries

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on October 31, 2016 In English Africa

Some problems (and some solutions) using Google Geocharts

I was preparing some choropleths at province level for China and Geocharts wouldn't understand some names... here is what I had to do.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on October 17, 2016 Google Charts Maps

A beginner's guide to the US National Archives in Maryland

Or how to survive a first visit and go home with what you came looking for.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on August 21, 2016 In English Research

My take on designing an academic conference poster

Two templates and some online resources that I found useful.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on August 10, 2016 In English Research

Careless journalism, defying logic

How a fake story about China taking control of Zambia's national TV made it to Kenya's The Star.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on July 1, 2016 In English Media East Asia

Japón y la puntilla del adjetivo

Notas sobre la cobertura del terremoto de Japón de marzo del 2011 en la prensa española.

Posted by Dani Madrid-Morales on April 20, 2011 En Español Media East Asia