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Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution

Jade Miller
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 117-134
"While Nollywood, Nigeria’s video industry, is largely separate from dominant global cultural industry networks of production inputs and distribution, it is an industry that is still globally linked in a number of ways. In this article, I investigate the nature and layout of these connections via ... more
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Partner, Prototype or Persuader? China’s Renewed Media Engagement with Ghana

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau, Daniel Nkrumah
Communication, Politics & Culture, volume 45 (2012), pp. 174-196
"This article provides an empirically grounded assessment of China’s increasing role in the African mediasphere. It examines the strategic importance of Chinese media assistance to Ghana along three dimensions: the potential appeal of the Chinese approach to information regulation for countries st ... more
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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123
"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more
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Truth in Search of a Voice

Alfred Esimatemi Opubor
Ibadan: University of Ibadan (2012), vii, 102 pp.
"This is a compilation of six publications or presentations of Professor Alfred Opubor spanning a period of eight years. They do not by any means amount to a significant percentage of his publications in those years; rather, they most clearly represent his position, argument and, thus, his contribut ... more
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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya

Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, Klara Debeljak
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 245-275
"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte ... more
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Radio Mission: Station ELWA in West Africa

Timothy Stoneman
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, volume 36, issue 4 (2012), pp. 200-204
"The case study of Station ELWA [ = Eternal Love Wins Africa] from 1954 to 1970 exemplifies how conservative evangelical radio missions operated worldwide during the postwar period. Radio missionaries with Station ELWA demonstrated a capacity for creativity in communication, forming part of an histo ... more
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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Obo Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 11 pp.
"Between May 19th-27th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults representative of the adult population in Obo, the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR), and its surroundings [...] Radio is the ... more
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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters

Linje Manyozo, Goretti Nassanga Linda, Claudia Lopes
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 28, issue 52 (2012), pp. 7-27
"This article is a political economy critique that contributes to current scholarship on community radio and development by examining the question of the management of six networks from Mali, Mozambique and Uganda. This discussion argues that understanding the models and functions of management comm ... more
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.
"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more
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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.
"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more
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Final Reflections: Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.
Internews' project Integrating Local Media and Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic (CAR) was an project aimed at improving emergency response, community participation and community resilience. This report presents the final refl ... more
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The Media and Democratic Consolidation in Nigeria: An Overview of Government–media Relations, 1999–2009

Simeon H. O. Alozieuwa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 377-393
"Relations between the media and government in Nigeria have historically been conflictual. Nevertheless, the Nigerian media has played important roles in the country’s struggles to free itself from the shackles of colonialism and military rule. A national desire for disengagement from decades of m ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: Nigeria

Ben Akoh, Abiodun Jagun
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 94 pp.
"Only 40 percent of Nigerians had access to a television in 2008 according to the International Telecommunication Union, and radio is still the dominant medium, reaching three-quarters of households. Both commercial and state broadcasters favor urban audiences and those in the south of the country. ... more
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania

Vipul Khosla, Kavita Abraham Dowsing
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 289-311
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Radio Programmes for Small Businesses: Using Media for Local Economic Development in Ghana

Kofi Owusu, Griet Newiger-Addy
Accra: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Programme for Sustainable Economic Development (PSED) (2012), iv, 32 pp.
"This publication has four main purposes. First, it informs local authorities and business associations in Ghana about the benefits of setting up industrial zones in their localities. Second, decision makers will learn about what has been achieved so far through the support to industrial areas in va ... more
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The Media and the Political Crisis in Côte D’Ivoire

Zio Moussa
Legon; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 62 pp.
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Evaluation Report: Good Governance Through Strengthened Media in Liberia Project

Alphonsus P. Zeon
Monrovia: Liberia Media Center; Journalists for Human Rights (2012), 38 pp.
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The Nigerian Press and the Challenge of Private Newspaper Ownership: A Study of the Nigerian Tribune, 1949–2009

Abimbola Omotayo Adesoji, Shina Alimi
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 357-376
"As the oldest surviving privately owned newspaper in Nigeria, the Nigerian Tribune (NT) provides a classic example of how newspapers come to serve a common cause while at the same time projecting the personal ambitions and interests of their founders. This article examines the challenges of private ... more
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Entwicklung oder Profit? Die staatliche und private Presse in Ghana

Daniel Kuehnhenrich
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2012), 146 pp.
"Im subsaharischen Afrika orientieren sich die Medien am Entwicklungsjournalismus und am westlichen Journalismusverständnis. Daniel Kuehnhenrich untersucht mit verschiedenen Methoden die Ausprägung dieser Konzepte in den ghanaischen Zeitungen. Seine umfassende Analyse beruht auf der ersten Journal ... more