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Financial Inclusion Youth Toolkit
Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2018), 121 pp.
"Between August 2017 and July 2018, CRF implemented the Kilimo Mtaji project (“agriculture makes sense” in Swahili) in Tanzania and DRC. The aim of the project was to seize the power of youth-produced radio shows and outreach events in order to share key messages that raise awareness around fina
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Au-delà de la liberté: Le journaliste face aux infractions de presse
Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED); Internews (2018), 38 pp.
"Ce petit manuel va à titre didactique répertorier une liste d’infractions de presse pour attirer l’attention des médias et professionnels des médias sur leur responsabilité pénale dans l’exercice de la liberté de presse." (Verso)
Mamas in the Newsroom: Women’s Journalism Against Sexual Violence in Eastern Congo
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 215-227
"This article analyses the performance and professional culture of journalists in situations of armed conflict, based on the results of research using qualitative techniques and conducted in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (2008–09) and Europe (2010–14), focusing on the case of the Cong
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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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Modeling Collective Action Through Media to Promote Social Change and Positive Intergroup Relations in Violent Conflicts
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 68 (2017), pp. 200-211
"Does social influence exerted through role modeling of collective action impact social change in contexts that are not conducive to collective action, such as long-lasting violent conflicts? We examined this question in two field experiments in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. We created t
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
Deep Insights
"National and Regional Internet Governance Forums (NRIs) are the stars of the 2017 Global Information Society Watch. The story of NRIs began two years after the first global IGF held in 2006. In 2008, stakeholders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda organised national forums and a subsequent Eas
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Country Reports 2017
Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.
Manuel d'observation des médias pendant la période électorale: Un guide d'observation à l'attention des médias et des missions d'observation électorales
Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 131 pp.
"Ce manuel a pour but d’accompagner les missions d’observation électorale dans leur mission de surveillance des contenus médiatiques et des discours politiques, la qualité du discours des acteurs politiques et le comportement des médias dans une période clé de la vie démocratique. Il donn
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De l’utilisation d’Internet en République démocratique du Congo: Un outil de mobilisation politique et religieuse
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 105-123
"En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le Web constitue, depuis le dernier mandat constitutionnel du président Joseph Kabila au pouvoir depuis 2001, un espace d’affrontements politiques par le biais des discours religieux, ou par leaders religieux interposés. Alors que le président Kabil
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Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm: UN Information Operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg (2017), xvi, 231 pp.
"Nigerian researcher Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob compares the impact on people in the Kivu provinces of eastern DR Congo of United Nations Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO) communication programmes encouraging militia to return to the country and Radio Okapi’s informative debate programme 'D
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Schwieriger Dienst an der Wahrheit
welt-sichten, issue 10 (2017), pp. 22-24
"Als Journalist zu arbeiten bedeutet in der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, sein Leben und seine Berufsethik ständig aufs Spiel zu setzen. Schon ihr Finanzierungsmodell erschwert es den meisten Medien im Land, eine stabile Grundlage ihrer Arbeit zu finden. Allein in der Hauptstadt Kinshasa gibt es n
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station That Helped Bring Peace to the Congo
Vancouver; Berkeley: Figure (2017), 304 pp.
"When Jennifer Bakody steps off the plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004, she walks right into the hardest and most inspiring job an idealistic young journalist from Nova Scotia could ever imagine. Six years of war involving eight countries and several million deaths have just ended
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Front Pages and Frontlines: How the News Cycle Impacted Humanitarian Assistance in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
"Heather Bourbeau finds that in a crisis, media professionals and humanitarian aid providers negotiate a delicate balance between thorough and consistent coverage, and coverage that sensationalizes a crisis and leads to hysteria, misery, and fatigue. In "F" Bourbeau compares the media coverage of th
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Reporting on the Independence of the Belgian Congo: Mwissa Camus, the Dean of Congolese Journalists
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 81-99
"Many individuals were involved in the Belgian Congo's attainment of independence. Born in 1931, Mwissa Camus, the dean of Congolese journalists, is one of them. Even though he was opposed to this idea and struggled to maintain his status as member of a certain ‘elite’, his career sheds light on
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Encouraging Rebel Demobilization by Radio in Uganda and the D.R. Congo: The Case of “Come Home” Messaging
African Studies Review, volume 59, issue 1 (2016), pp. 33-55
"For several years, local radio stations in Uganda have broadcast “come home” messages that encourage the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army to demobilize. Since the rebels began carrying out attacks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central African Republic, several international actors h
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Évangéliser les médias, un défi chrétien
Saint-Denis: Edilivre (2016), 114 pp.
Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time
Journal of Conflict Resolution, volume 60, issue 4 (2016), pp. 748-781
"Poor-quality data about conflict events can hinder humanitarian responses and bias academic research. There is increasing recognition of the role that new information technologies can play in producing more reliable data faster. We piloted a novel data-gathering system in the Democratic Republic of
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