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Interactive Radio Shows and the Role of New Information Brokers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 14, issue 2 (2024), 21 pp.

"This study investigates interactive forms of public communication in the Republic of Benin (West Africa) with a specific focus on the emergence of new media actors. Benin’s media landscape features a variety of media formats, which are constantly incorporating interactive elements. These developm ... more

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Media Freedom and Right to Information in Africa

Luca Bussotti, Miguel de Barros, Tilo Grätz (eds.)

Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2015), 136 pp.

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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)

Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.

"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more

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Technologische Dramen: Radiokulturen und Medienwandel in Benin (Westafrika)

Tilo Grätz

Bielefeld: transcript (2014), 385 pp.

"Neue Mediengesetze und Technologien verändern das Radio in Westafrika. Tilo Grätz analysiert diesen Wandel am Beispiel der Aneignung von Radiotechnologien in Benin. Er zeigt: Die Prozesse vollz ... more

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Médias, religion et mobilité en Afrique et dans la diaspora = Media, Religion and Mobility in Africa and the Diaspora

Katrien Pype, Anne Mélice, Steven Van Wolputte (eds.)

Social Compass, volume 61, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-72

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New Media Entrepreneurs and Changing Styles of Public Communication in Africa: Introduction

Tilo Grätz

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-13

"Central to the work represented in this issue is what we have called the emergence of new media entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. These actors generate a multitude of new (and often not easily definable) genres of information as well as entertainment and distraction, but also persuasion and heal ... ing (Böhme 2013). They are often categorized as cultural brokers (cf. Thalen 2011), mediating between dispersed audiences and spaces of communication, and taking advantage of their privileged access to new media technologies and/or advanced positions in the media field. Thus, we propose to refer back to quite classical notions of intermediaries, stemming especially from the realm of political and economic anthropology, such as brokers or middlemen (cf. Boissevain 1974, 148; Lewis and Mosse 2006), interpreting these figures mainly as entrepreneurs who control second order resources such as information, social relations, or channels of communication. In our articles we exemplify the relevance of such a conceptualization for contemporary African media fields, also beyond more functionalist aspects as we discuss their often ambiguous positions as well, caught as they are between contradicting loyalties to clients and colleagues or authorities, and also between professional standards and aspirations on the one hand and the need for income on the other. This category of media entrepreneurs, benefitting fromthese newopportunities and opening new social spaces and realms of creativity, may include journalists, radio producers (cf. Gunner et al. 2011), media technicians, or artists working within private as well as public structures, as well as those who are establishing institutions that offer media-related training, counselling, and marketing. Other media entrepreneurs are, for example, individuals who, thanks to their mass-mediated appearances and particular preaching style, draw large groups of supporters in their role as religious or political actors (Meyer 2003, cf. also the contribution by Sounaye). Examples of such media entrepreneurship also include the rising number of independent media production outlets, studios, or PR agencies doing public or private contract work, and who often profit from the new opportunities raised by national and transnational ventures in commerce and finance which require advertising and publicity. As already indicated, among those who are benefitting most from these new opportunities are many young people, often graduates, who have not always received formal training to prepare them for a job in media production, but who make their way through the various steps of internship, freelance, and contractualwork, often combining severalmedia activities in the press, in radio andTV, or asPRofficers. Some have even been successful at establishing themselves as leading media figures or local celebrities in this field." (Page 49) more

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‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 161-188

"In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maran ... more

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Community-Radios in Benin: Rahmenbedingungen, Problemfelder, Potentiale

Tilo Grätz

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2010), 35 pp.

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Radiokulturen und Wandel öffentlicher Räume in Benin: Ein ethnographischer Bericht

Tilo Grätz

Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien (2003), 35 pp.

"Der folgende Text behandelt einige Aspekte der aktuellen Veränderung der Radiokulturen in der Republik Benin. Der Focus der Betrachtung liegt hierbei auf Gebieten, in denen das Radio das wichtigste Massenmedium darstellt. Gerade hier hat die Radiokultur durch die Einführung neuer, unabhängiger R ... more

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African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
Inspiring Practice

Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss (eds.)

Oxford: James Currey Publishers (2000), xvi, 256 pp.

"Radio has played a pivotal role in situations of conflict, crisis, change and development on the African continent. Local radio stations are as important as international broadcasters being both the barometers and agents of change. This text examines African radio broadcast cultures." (Publisher de ... more

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Local Radio Stations, Political Transformation and the Demonopolisation of Public Communication: The Case of Radio Rurale Locale Tanguieta (Northern Benin)

Tilo Grätz

Bielefeld: University of Bielefeld (1999), 20 pp.

African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition Inspiring Practice

African Broadcast Cultures: Radio in Transition
Inspiring Practice