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Global Activism on Facebook: A Discursive Analysis of 'Bring Back Our Girls' Campaign
"In April 2014, Boko Haram, a militant Islamist group, abducted over 200 Nigerian girls from the town of Chibok in Nigeria. The kidnapping caused global outrage and the local community responded by designing an online social media campaign they called "Bring Back Our Girls" that used Facebook and Tw
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The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its sig
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
Deep Insights
Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.
"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W
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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
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
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla
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The Fight Against Lassa Fever in Ebonyi State, Nigeria: A Clash of the People’s Culture and Broadcast Media Campaign
IDOSR Journal of Communication and English, volume 2, issue 1 (2017), pp. 159-180
"Ebonyi State of Nigeria is among the states where the incidence of Lassa fever has become endemic; and has consequently led to the death of many people including health practitioners in the state. To mobilize the people against the disease, government and stakeholders in the health sector resorted
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People-Powered Media Innovation in West Africa: Accelerating Development & Good Governance in the New Media Landscape
Omidyar Network (2016), 40 pp.
"As media ecosystems in West Africa are increasingly diversifying and opening up after decades of state control, innovative and independent journalism is advancing government transparency and accountability. New opportunities for funders are opening in tandem, with potential for both social and econ
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"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec
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Gendering War and Peace Reporting: Some Insights – Some Missing Links
Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), 278 pp.
Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac
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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp.
"Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces
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Participatory Politics and Citizen Journalism in a Networked Africa: A Connected Continent
Deep Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 308 pp.
"This book investigates the role of citizen journalism in railroading social and political changes in sub-Saharan Africa. Case studies are drawn from research conducted by leading scholars from the fields of media studies, journalism, anthropology and history, who uniquely probe the real impact of t
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Digital Activism in the Social Media Era: Critical Reflections on Emerging Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xv, 341 pp.
"This book probes the vitality, potentiality and ability of new communication and technological changes to drive online-based civil action across Africa. In a continent booming with mobile innovation and a plethora of social networking sites, the Internet is considered a powerful platform used by pr
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Precarious Creativity: Global Media, Local Labor
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2016), x, 324 pp.
World Press Freedom Day and Safety of Journalists: Implication for People’s Freedom of Expression
New Media and Mass Communication, volume 54 (2016), pp. 34-38
"Every 3rd of May in the year, the world celebrates the freedom of the press. The celebration often serves as a reminder on the need for the protection of the Fundamental Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as embedded in the universal declaration of Human Rights as well as the constitution of co
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The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2016), xix, 525 pp.
"The Handbook of International Crisis Communication Research articulates a broader understanding of crisis communication, discussing the theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of domestic and transnational crises, featuring the work of global scholars from a range of sub-disciplines
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Nollywood Central
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), 175 pp.
"Nollywood is often portrayed by the popular press as an unruly industry, with mysteriously fast and cheap production and shadowy distribution networks. In the first overview of Nigeria's burgeoning video film industry, Jade L. Miller reveals that this portrayal is over-simplistic and often untrue.
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Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa
Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 246 pp.
"This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Af
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