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Bribery and Corruption in African Journalism
Deep Insights
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 367-575
Nurturing Nationhood Through Peace Media: Analysing Peace Related Programming in Community Radio Stations
Nairobi: Peace and Development Network Trust (PeaceNet Kenya) (2010), 35 pp.
"Peace and Development Network Trust- Kenya (PeaceNet-Kenya) and The Seed Institute commissioned the “Nurturing Nationhood through Peace Media” study to assess the extent to which Vernacular/Community Radio stations cover peace programmes. The study gauged perceptions of audience as well as syst
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The Media We Want: The Kenya Media Vulnerabilities Study
Nairobi: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 64 pp.
"The main finding of this study is that the Kenyan media have been operating in an unpredictable and swiftly changing political, social, cultural, economic and technological environment that has heavily influenced its development. A hostile and inadequate political, legal, policy and regulatory envi
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Kenya Talks Climate: The Public Understanding of Climate Change
London: BBC World Service Trust; British Council (2010), 27 pp.
"In May 2009, the BBC world Service Trust’s Research and Learning Group, on behalf of the British Council, conducted research in Kenya to gauge public understanding of climate change. The research consisted of 12 focus-group discussions with Kenyan citizens, as well as 17 in-depth interviews with
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The Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in East Africa
Deep Insights
Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2010), 100 pp.
"This report gives an overview of the current state of mobile phone use and services in East Africa. It outlines major trends and main obstacles for increased use as well as key opportunities and potential for upscaling mobile applications. The report draws on secondary data and statistics, as well
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Pambazuka Press (2010), xxii, 149 pp.
"This collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socio-economic, political and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The essays address a broad range of issues including inequalities in access to technology base
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Kenya: Communicating with Policymakers About Development Issues. A Guide for International Development Community
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 52 pp.
"InterMedia conducted in-depth interviews with senior Kenyan government officials and policy influencers outside government (collectively referred to in this report as policy actors), to find out how they gather, assess, share and disseminate information critical to development policy work. The aim
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Religion Macht Frieden: Das Friedenspotenzial von Religionen in politischen Gewaltkonflikten
Deep Insights
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2010), 480 pp.
Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright
Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp.
"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen
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Reporting Tax Research: Connecting Researchers and Journalists for Improved Media Coverage and Debate in Kenya
London: Panos London (2010), 20 pp.
"In late 2009, three newspaper articles appeared in the Kenyan press, contributing to a newly emerging debate in the Kenyan media over government transparency and accountability. Media reporting in Kenya on governance issues, particularly in relation to corrupt practices in public spending, is not n
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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa
Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 411 pp.
Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci
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Internationales Handbuch Medien
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa
Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126
Community Radio and Ethnic Violence in Africa: The Case of Kenya
University of East Anglia, Master Thesis (2009), 65 pp.
"This research aims to explore the nature of community radio in Kenya, the levels at which some community radio stations were involved in the Kenyan post election violence and the impact they had on their audiences. Community radio is now widespread across Africa. Although it has a variety of functi
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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere
New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.
"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide
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