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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.
"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A
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Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"This book explores how journalism is practiced around the world and how there are multiple factors at the structural and contextual level shaping journalism practice. Drawing on case studies of how conflicts, pandemics, political developments, or human rights violations are covered in an online-fir
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Artificial Intelligence in the Information and Communications Space. Country Assessment Report: South Africa
Forum on Information & Democracy; Media Monitoring Africa (2023), 80 pp.
Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.
"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric
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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp.
"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be
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Radio, Public Life and Citizen Deliberation in South Africa
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 286 pp.
"As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, reac
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Television in Africa in the Digital Age
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxi, 295 pp.
"This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of t
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.
Media and Elections: African Perspectives
In: Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
Sarah Chiumbu, Mehita Iqani (eds.)
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), pp. 149-172
Big Brother is Watching: Surveillance Regulation and its Effects on Journalistic Practices in Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 26-41
"In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, journalists have been subjected to various policy regulations that have widely been criticised for making the practice of journalism difficult. Part of the reason has been the advent of competitive politics that have left the ruling regimes scrambling
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'The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio in the Digital Age
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 249-264
"In this article, I analyse the changing nature and meaning of ‘community’ in community radio in the digital age using insights from literature on imagined communities, translocality and liminality. I argue that new media technologies are opening up new spaces for community radio that go beyond
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Zimbabwe
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2009), x, 106 pp.
The Power of Communication: Changes and Challenges in African Media
Oslo: Oslo Academic Press (2009), 362 pp.
"This book examines how the media in different parts of Africa plays an important role in the continent's political and social processes of change. The perspective of the book is comparative. It contains overviews of the role of communication, as well as case studies, of the situation in individual
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