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Etude sur les domaines d'intérêt et l'accès à l'information par la jeunesse rurale burkinabé

Ouagadougou: Initiatives Conseil International; Fondation Hirondelle (2019), 67 pp.
"Cette étude menée dans 5 régions différentes du Burkina-Faso a permis de relever quelques caractéristiques générales des modalités d’informations de la jeunesse rurale et de dégager des grandes thématiques d’intérêt liées aux réalités vécues localement. Il faut néanmoins releve ... more
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The Media and Participatory Governance in Senegal: Trends and Challenges

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2019), 12 pp.
"The paper begins with an introduction on the media landscape in Senegal and explains how they have today become platforms where citizens can get information and express their views on the implementation and the operationalization of public policies. This paper also elaborates on the challenges that ... more
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Family Planning and Youth in West Africa: Mass Media, Digital Media, and Social and Behavior Change Communication Strategies. Literature Review
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Sarah Castle, Martha Silva
Washington, DC: Population Council (2019), 42 pp.
"This review presents evidence about the impact of mass media and digital media on young people’s family planning (FP) attitudes and behaviors. It primarily focuses on the Ouagadougou Partnership countries, but also describes lessons learned from other initiatives implemented more widely in Africa ... more
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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.
"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more
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An Examination of Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Anglophone West Africa

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 29-40
"Ethical scandals involving journalists in English-speaking West African countries have been documented to include conflict of interest, freebies, intellectual theft, deception, carelessness, kowtowing to advertisers and politicians, use of dubious evidence, and outright bias. This study explores ho ... more
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Content Analysis of the Reflection of Media Literacy in Communication Curricula of Select Nigerian Universities

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju
World of Media: Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 3 (2019), pp. 66-85
"This study analysed the media-literacy content in curricula of nine select universities in Africa’s most populous nation: Nigeria. Some key findings revealed that: (a) media-literacy courses proper were not on the curricula; (b) media-literacy-related courses, which stood as proxies, accounted fo ... more
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Futuros criativos

André Nabais, Alexandro Cardoso, Débora Sanches, Fátima Proença et al.
Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2019), 239 pp.
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After Access 2018: A Demand-Side View of Mobile Internet from 10 African Countries

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), vii, 38 pp.
"Of all 10 African countries surveyed, only in South Africa is more than half the population online. The Internet penetration rate in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Senegal is above the 20% threshold – but even this requires further investigation in a developing country context, where the unaf ... more
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Usages et services d'Internet au Mali: Rôle et positionnement des bibliothèques

Amadou Békaye Sidibé
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 268 pp.
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L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global

Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159
"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch ... more
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Insights from the Entertainment & Media Outlook: 2019-2023. An African Perspective. Getting Personal: Putting the me in Entertainment & Media

Vicki Myburgh, Charles Stuart
PWC, 10th annual ed. (2019), 189 pp.
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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.
"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more
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Survie d'une radio communautaire sénégalaise: Le cas de Manoore FM à Dakar

Aude Jimenez
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 169 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose une incursion au coeur d’une radio communautaire silencieuse, mais résiliente. Mise en place par une association de femmes au début des années 2000, la station Manoore FM a subi plusieurs pannes au cours de la décennie 2010, jusqu’à cesser d’émettre en 2015. Pourtant ... more
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FemmePowermentAfrique: Introducing the Scope and Design of the Project

Emma Heywood
Sheffield, UK: University of Sheffield (2019), 16 pp.
"This working paper defines the scope of the FemmePowermentAfrique project, its significance, its research approach and its intended beneficiaries. This project originated in an impact assessment of radio on women’s rights and empowerment in Niger, yet has broadened to incorporate a series of rela ... more
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African Cinema and Human Rights

Mette Hjort, Eva Jørholt (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), x, 314 pp.
"Bringing theory and practice together, 'African Cinema and Human Rights' argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the causes of justice and fairness. The contributors to this volume identify three key ways in which film can achieve these goals: documenting human rights ... more
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Civil Society and Media Whole-of-Intermediate Result (IR) Evaluation

Monrovia: USAID; Social Impact Inc. (2019), ix, 107 pp.
"This report presents findings and recommendations from the whole-of-Intermediate Result (IR) evaluation of activities generated from the USAID Civil Society and Media Project Appraisal Document (PAD) created in 2015. The evaluation included two current activities—Liberia Accountability and Voice ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Journalism and Journalism Education in Developing Countries
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Beatrice Dernbach, Beate Illg (eds.)
Manipal, Kanartaka: Manipal Universal Press (2019), vi, 250 pp.
"This book provides an international perspective on the different aspects of journalism – the situation in which journalists work, their working conditions, educational backgrounds, struggles and successes. It is aimed at an international public interested in the field of journalism and freedom of ... more
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African Media Barometer: Nigeria 2019

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 60 pp.
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Media, Access to Information and ICT, and the Empowerment of Women & Girls: Technical Assistance to the EU Delegation to Burkina Faso

Virginie Ramey, Nestorine Sangare Compaore, Dessi Damianova
Media 4 Democracy (2019), 72 pp.