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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)
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 ... more
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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
In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Humanitarian Action
Robin Andersen, Robin Purnaka L. de Silva (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), pp. 200-210
"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 ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2017: National and Regional Internet Governance Forum Initiatives (NRIs)
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), 249 pp.
"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 ... more
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La télévision ivoirienne (RTI) de 1963 à 2011: Média de développement ou instrument du pouvoir?

Issa Yeresso Sangaré
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 223 pp.
"Plus d'un demi-siècle après sa création sous Félix Houphouët-Boigny, la RTI a-t-elle atteint l'objectif fixé au départ, renforcer la cohésion sociale, positionner le pays sur la scène internationale et promouvoir le développement ? A-t-elle été un organe de développement souhaité, où ... more
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Controversial Ebola Vaccine Trials in Ghana: A Thematic Analysis of Critiques and Rebuttals in Digital News

Per Egil Kummervold, William S. Schulz, Elizabeth Smout, Luis Fernandez-Luque, Heidi J. Larson
BMC Public Health, volume 17, issue 642 (2017), 24 pp.
"A web-based system was developed to download and analyse news reports relevant to Ebola vaccine trials. This included monitoring major online newspapers in each country with planned clinical trials, including Ghana. All news articles were downloaded, selecting out those containing variants of the w ... more
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Médias au Sénégal: Entre mutations et contraintes

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS); Centre d'Etudes des Sciences et Techniques de l'Information (CESTI) (2017), 290 pp.
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Press Freedom and Nigeria's Cybercrime Act of 2015: An Assessment

Raymond Adibe, Cyril Chinedu Ike, Celestine Uchechukwu Udeogu
Africa Spectrum, volume 52, issue 2 (2017), pp. 117-127
"This study assesses the Cybercrime Act 2015 and its implications for online press freedom in the liberal authoritarian state of Nigeria. Specifically, the study examines how the character of political leadership in Nigeria leads to wrongful application of the act to undermine the independence of th ... more
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Media Ownership Monitor Ghana

Reporters Without Borders; Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2017), 567 pp.
"The Media Ownership Monitor (MOM) reveals a high level of audience concentration in various media sectors. An almost maximum concentration was found among the printed press, where the top four media companies (Graphic Communications Group Limited, New Times Corporation, Western Publications Limited ... more
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The Dilemma of Building Campus Radio Stations on a Business Model: The Case of ATL FM in Ghana

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 60-78
"The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic discourse in the mainstream media as well as independence from political and ... more
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Country Reports 2017

Celia Collins (ed.)
Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.
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Global Media and Local Verbal Art Representations of Northern Mali Touareg

Susan J. Rasmussen
African Studies Review, volume 60, issue 1 (2017), pp. 77-100
"This article offers a critique of widely disseminated portrayals of northern Malian Tuareg by outside media, which tend to portray all Tuareg as warriors and criminals and to project pseudo-scientific concepts of “race” onto relationships between Tuareg and other Malians, recalling the now disc ... more
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Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)
Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.
"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more
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The Fight Against Lassa Fever in Ebonyi State, Nigeria: A Clash of the People’s Culture and Broadcast Media Campaign

Simon Ugochuwu Nwankwo, Agatha Orji-Egwu
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 ... more
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China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and Popular Culture Between Business and State Intervention

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 1-147
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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria: Final Evaluation

Michael Adebisi, Foluke Fadare et al.
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 47 pp.
"In a highly competitive media landscape, BBC Media Action’s governance programmes reached 52.8 million people in 2014 (and an estimated 64.6 million cumulatively), representing more than half the adult population of the country. One reason for this success was the brokering of radio partnerships ... more
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Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global

Joshua Neves, Bhaskar Sarkar (eds.)
Durham; London: Duke University Press (2017), viii, 360 pp.
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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 ... more
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Mouvement interreligieux et usages d’Internet au Burkina Faso: Le cas de l’Union Fraternelle des Croyants (UFC) de Dori

Koudbi Kaboré
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 23-35
"L’arrivée d’Internet provoque des évolutions dans le rapport aux médias des communautés religieuses. Il y a une volonté de visibilité externe grâce à l’usage d’Internet comme moyen de communication et comme mode de présence. À partir de l’exemple de l’Union fraternelle des cro ... more
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Changes in Journalism in Two Post-Authoritarian Non-Western Countries

Levi Obijiofor, Richard Murray, Shailendra B. Singh
International Communication Gazette, volume 79, issue 4 (2017), pp. 379-399
"There have been significant changes in journalistic practices in various countries over the years. Yet little is known about the nature of changes in journalism in transitional developing countries following military rule. Drawing on email surveys of journalists in Nigeria and Fiji, two countries w ... more