commbox Tanzania

Filter

389

Sort by:

Direction:

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (13)

African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century

Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, Stephanie Newell (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.

"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow tra ... more

External Link (11)

Albino: The Desperate Plight of the Tanzanian Albinos

Ana Palacios

North Salema, NY: Vision Project (2017), 18 pp.

External Link (19)

Google Scholar (15)

WorldCat (16)

Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (13)

In Media We Trust: Journalists and Institutional Trust Perceptions in Post-Authoritarian and Post-Totalitarian Countries

Alice N. Tejkalová et al.

Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 629-644

"Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have i ... more

External Link (5)

Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

London: GSMA (2017), 47 pp.

"This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region. Established in 1996, it now hosts more than 136,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bu ... more

External Link (18)

Google Scholar (15)

WorldCat (16)

The Need and the Opportunities for Sustainability: The Case of Local Radio Stations in Tanzania

Christoph Spurk, Filip Dingerkus

Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 38-59

"Local radio stations have mushroomed in Africa, including Tanzania, partly due to increased support from international donors. However, research results show that the lack of economic viability is a major constraint for local radio stations. They can hardly generate sufficient revenues from adverti ... more

External Link (10)

Listening In: An Internews Assessment of Community Radio in Tanzania

Brice Rambaud

Internews (2017), 52 pp.

"Internews set out to take stock of community radio stations (CRS) in Tanzania through a rapid, structured assessment. We were determined to understand the extent to which CRS across the country were providing a valuable public information service, and what barriers could be overcome and opportuniti ... more

Download (1)

In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
Top Insights

Anya Schiffrin (ed.)

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.

"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are ... more

Download (0)

Tanzania: Freedom of Expression in Peril

Mélissa Cornet

Paris: International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH); Legal and Human Rights Centre (2017), 20 pp.

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (14)

WorldCat (13)

Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan

Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15

"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more

External Link (12)

Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017 – 2021: An African Perspective. An In-Depth Analysis of the Trends Shaping the Entertainment and Media Industry in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania
Quick Overview

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc), 8th. annual ed. (2017), 161 pp.

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (14)

WorldCat (12)

Twinning Social Memory and Social Imaginary: Challenges for East African Media Policies

Ullamaija Kivikuru

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 50-73

"The article discusses the significance of the past in the planning of media policies in two neighbouring countries in Africa, namely Kenya and Tanzania. The theoretical frame is composed of four concepts: social imaginary, collective memory, domestication, and liminality. The scrutiny starts from t ... more

External Link (6)

The Political Economy of Media Capture: What Influences Media Capture in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) and How Does This Present Opportunities and Challenges for Progress in Achieving Key Components of SDG 16?

Pamela Jiménez Cárdenas, Antony Declercq, Mandy Shi Lai, Nathan Rasquinet

London: Capstone Project London School of Economics (LSE) (2017), vii, 75 pp.

"In South Sudan, media capture, media market and audience segmentation are driven by: the ongoing civil conflict (since 2013), ethnic and linguistic divisions, a lack of rule of law, the legacy of clientelistic networks in the media and the government, a stark urban-rural divide, and a lack of infra ... more

Download (1)

Country Reports 2017

Celia Collins (ed.)

Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.

Download (1)

Country Reports 2016

Celia Collins (ed.)

Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 253 pp.

Download (1)

Building an Ecosystem Around Data: Using Interactive Radio for Accountability to Farmers in Tanzania

Francesca Feruglio, Heather Gilberds

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS); Farm Radio International (2017), 15 pp.

"In 2015, Farm Radio International applied to Making All Voices Count for a practitioner research and learning grant. Farm Radio International (FRI) is a Canadian-based not-for-profit organisation working in direct partnership with approximately 600 radio broadcasters in 38 African countries to figh ... more

Download (0)

Digital Principles Into Practice

Dar es Salaam: Human Development Innovation Fund (HDIF) (2017), 15 pp.

"At HDIF, we want to share learning from our own experience to assist players in ICT4D to ensure we are not creating more stacks of unused hardware and limited viability which combine to create a larger wasteland of well-intended development projects. A broad set of donors and partners have combined ... more

Download (1)

Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

Download (1)

Needs Assessment: Strengthening Indigenous Academic and Digital Publishing in Tanzania

Oxford: International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP) (2017), 7 pp.

Download (0)

Mediengesetzgebung in Tansania in Geschichte und Gegenwart

Martin Sturmer

Stichproben: Wiener Zeitschrift für kritische Afrikastudien, volume 17, issue 33 (2017), pp. 25-52

"Mit dem Media Services Act, 2016 ist in Tansania am 3. Februar 2017 ein neues Mediengesetz in Kraft getreten, das die Pressefreiheit drastisch einschränkt und in klarem Widerspruch zur Verfassung von 1977 steht. Die umstrittenste Bestimmung betrifft die Verpflichtung von JournalistInnen zur Akkred ... more

In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy Top Insights

Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017 – 2021: An African Perspective. An In-Depth Analysis of the Trends Shaping the Entertainment and Media Industry in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania Quick Overview

In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
Top Insights

Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017 – 2021: An African Perspective. An In-Depth Analysis of the Trends Shaping the Entertainment and Media Industry in South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana and Tanzania
Quick Overview