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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Deep Insights
London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 29 slides
"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by
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Contributing to Change: Supporting Zimbabwe's Media
International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 50 pp.
"It is my pleasure to introduce this report on the contribution of International Media Support and our partners to important changes in the Zimbabwean media sector over the past decade. Impact—or ‘contribution towards change’ as we term it in this report— is often an elusive, hard-to-illustr
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When the Subaltern Speaks: Citizen Journalism and Genocide ‘victims’ Voices Online
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101
"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly
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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology
London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.
Three Waves of Media Repression in Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 25-44
"This article seeks to highlight how the media – especially radio – have always been used in Zimbabwe to consolidate the power of the government. This invariably led to oppositional media emerging from outside the country, giving the populace access to alternative discourses from those churned o
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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation
London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.
"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for
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Beyond Tokenism: The Need to License Community Radio Stations in Zimbabwe
London: Amnesty International (2015), 39 pp.
"This report is a qualitative study focussing on Zimbabwe’s failure and/or refusal to license community radio stations since 2001, despite existing legal frameworks providing for such. It looks at the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Broadcasting Services Act, the two key pieces of legislation whi
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.
"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and
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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat
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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.
"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and — even at times exposing official
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The Re-Emergence of Diasporic Radio in Independent Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 54-72
"The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled outside Zimbabwe to examine how diasporic radio has re-emerged in independent Zimbabwe, where it manages to utilise affordable communication technologies to link with the population, providing the people with an a
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy
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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures
London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.
"Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comp
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Women and Media: Africa in Focus
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 35 slides
"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Vol. 2
New York: Peter Lang (2014), xii, 406 pp.
Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 2
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2013), pp. 397-707
"A practical guide for journalists practising in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lesotho, Namibia, Zimbabwe and Tanzania. The handbook not only contains a comprehensive overview of applicable media laws for each country reviewed, it also contains suggestions on possible law reforms to improve
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