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Investigate Without Peril: How to Support Investigative Journalism in East Africa
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre; Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2011), 4 pp.
"The political and economic environment in some regions of the world present specific challenges for investigative journalists: countries that score low on governance and transparency present particular risks and underline the need to build investigative journalism capacity. This Brief analyses the
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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.
A New Frontier, an Old Landscape: A Report for the Ford Foundation About the Impact of Digital Communications on Media and Communications, and on Human Rights
London: Global Partners (2011), 270 pp.
Examines the impact that the rise of digital communications is having on the media, and on human rights activism. The report goes on to explore the main policy issues which must be addressed at the national and international levels to shape an enabling environment. The report combines global level a
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The Practice of Public Diplomacy: Confronting Challenges Abroad
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xviii, 262 pp.
"Relying heavily on scores of first-hand accounts collected through interviews, the studies examine the practice of public diplomacy largely from the perspective of American practitioners in different countries. The analyses follow the standard field officer approach, asking systematically: what iss
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The State of Media Freedom in Africa
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388
Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E
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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.
"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th
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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa
EIFL; TNS RMS East Africa (2011), 101 pp.
"The report presents key findings of the research in six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Findings were that most people believe public libraries have the potential to contribute to community development in important areas such as health, employment and agriculture.
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Towards a Theory of Communication for Africa: The Challenges for Emerging Democracies
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20
"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of
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Kenya
Nairobi; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP); Open Society Media Program (OSMP) (2011), xi, 126 pp.
"Kenya’s liberalisation of the airwaves since the mind-1990s has resulted in the transformation of broadcasting with numerous stations now serving as a platform for information and public debate. This has promoted a culture of participation in the democratic process, and has impacted positively to
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Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 626-654
Kenya's Indigenous Radio Stations and Their Use of Metaphors in the 2007 Election Violence
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 109-125
"The article focuses on the use of metaphors during the 2007 pre- and post-election violence in Kenya that left at least 1400 people dead and more than 350,000 internally displaced. During and after the violence, vernacular radio stations, though not entirely responsible for the violence, were highl
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Atlas de l'Afrique
Paris: Éditions du Jaguar, 4. éd. (2011), 255 pp.
"L'Afrique dans son ensemble : 28 chapitres présentant le continent par rapport au reste du monde. Tous les aspects de la géographie physique : relief, hydrographie, climat, végétation, et aussi l'histoire, les religions, les langues. L'Afrique par régions. Les cartes de localisation avec visua
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Media and the Common Good: Perspectives on Media, Democracy and Responsibility
Nairobi; Dar-es-Salaam; Kampala: LawAfrica Publishing; Strathmore University (2010), 169 pp.
Journalism Education in Countries with Limited Media Freedom
Deep Insights
New York: Peter Lang (2010), xiii, 263 pp.
"Since the 1990s journalism education programs have expanded exponentially around the world, but media freedom has not. Globally comparative, this edited volume assesses journalism education and the challenging environment in which it is delivered in countries with a partly free or not free status a
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Health Communication in Africa
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 205-367
Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xxi, 420 pp.
"This book highlights the importance of the news media as watchdogs, agenda setters and gatekeepers for the quality of democratic deliberation in the public sphere. At the same time, it theorizes that the capacity of journalists and media systems to fulfill these roles depends on the broader context
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