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People-Powered Media Innovation in West Africa: Accelerating Development & Good Governance in the New Media Landscape

Panthea Lee, Nonso Jideofor, Kate Reed Petty
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 ... more
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Thirty Rising Media Markets 2016

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon
London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.
"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon ... more
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La presse écrite: Crise ou mutations?

Sadok Hammami (coord.)
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2016), 135 pp.
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How the UN Silenced Liberia’s Press

Prue Clarke, Rodney Sieh
Foreign Policy, August 8 (2016)
"Few aspects of Liberian society have suffered more under UNMIL than the media, which is critical for any young democracy but all the more so for one emerging from civil war. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.N. mission itself, and other donors have spent more than $10 mil ... more
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Media Contact List [Liberia]

Internews (2015), 16 pp.
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Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

Savita Bailur, Jonathan Donner et al.
Farnham: Caribou Digital Publishing (2015), 186 pp.
"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli ... more
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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.
Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100
"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more
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Histoires de courage: Des journalistes centrafricains témoignent

International Media Support (IMS); Panos Europe (2015), 51 pp.
"Cette publication présente l’histoire de 18 journalistes centrafricains, tous victimes de diverses menaces, bastonnades et intimidations, pendant qu’ils effectuaient leur travail de reportage sur le conflit qui a déchiré leur pays entre 2012 et 2014 [...] Les témoignages dans cette publicat ... more
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Ouverture médiatique, pluralisme et audiovisuel: Ajustements au Sénégal, du monopole au numérique

Guila Thiam
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 204 pp.
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Communicating War in Mali, 2012: On-Offline Networked Political Agency in Times of Conflict

Mirjam de Bruijn, Lotte Pelckmans, Boukary Sangare
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 109-128
"This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulani nomads and urbanites in the Mopti region (Hayre), who engage increasingly with new actors and networks present in the war zone: ‘rebels’ and jihadists; the diasp ... more
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Digital Divides: The New Challenges and Opportunities of E-Inclusion

Kim J. Andreasson (ed.)
Boca Raton et al.: CRC Press (2015), xxviii, 300 pp.
"The rapid development of the information society has accentuated the importance of digital divides, which refer to economic and social inequalities among populations due to differences in access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies (ICT). This book discusses the cu ... more
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Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings

Theodora Hannides
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 64 pp.
"This synthesis of evidence suggests that BBC Media Action interventions have an important role to play in assisting people affected by crisis, and is consistent with other literature that highlights the role of media in providing accurate and reliable information in crisis. It highlights that, as w ... more
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Les médias centrafricains dans la tourmente

Reporters Sans Frontières (2015), 21 pp.
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Boko Haram: Der Vormarsch des Terror-Kalifats

Mike Smith
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 287 pp.
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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)
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 ... more
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Le paysage médiatique guinéen: état des lieux, enjeux et défis

Corinne Matras, Daniel Fra, Michel Leroy, Mohamed Camara, Monique Curtis
Chasseur d’Etoiles; Expertise France (2015), 191 pp.
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Media and Masculinities: The Role of Key Media Outlets in Nigeria in Shaping Perceptions of Masculinities

Voices for Change (V4C) (2015), 70 pp.
"The report examines the links between the media’s promotion of unequal gender power relations based on stereotypical images of men and women and men’s expressions of dominance, control and violence in their everyday relationships with women and girls. It also explores media representations of m ... more
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L'autre version de la crise centrafricaine

Johnny Vianney Bissakonou
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 132 pp.
"La bipolarisation de la crise centrafricaine en conflit "chrétiens versus musulmans" détourne l'attention du monde sur les origines, la vraie nature et les auteurs instigateurs de ce drame. Cet ouvrage allume les projecteurs sur tous ceux qui ont joué une partition non négligeable dans ce mélo ... more
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From Crisis to Transition: Media in Burkina Faso

Michelle Betz
International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 23 pp.
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey
GSMA; Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.
"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more