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Communicative Justice in the Pluriverse: An International Dialogue

Joan Pedro-Carañana, Eliana Herrera-Huérfano, Juana Ochoa Almanza (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2023), xxiv, 176 pp.
"The book identifies and explains the unequal power relations in place that limit the possibilities of communication justice, the challenges and difficulties faced by activists and communities, the ways in which communities and movements have confronted power structures through discourse and materia ... more
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Deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

Sebastian Conrad
München: Beck, 5., durchges. Aufl. (2023), 127 pp.
"Das deutsche Kolonialreich war nicht groß und währte nur 30 Jahre. Es wirkte jedoch in vielfältiger Weise auf Deutschland zurück. Sebastian Conrad beschreibt, wie die koloniale Ordnung funktionierte, wo sie an ihre Grenzen stieß und wie die einheimischen Gesellschaften auf die Fremdherrschaft ... more
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State of children in South African media: An analysis of media’s coverage of children in 2022

Musa Oswald Rikhotso
Media Monitoring Africa (2023), 21 pp.
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No Easy Solutions: Zambian Journalism’s ‘Blalizo’ Problem

Laida K. Chongo
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 18 pp.
"A suggestion by Government to introduce a minimum wage has the potential to ensure that journalists are paid a living wage, making it feasible to start an open conversation about the ethical implications of accepting blalizo [a “transport refund” issued to journalists by the organisers of event ... more
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The struggle for authority and legitimacy: Lifestyle and political journalists’ discursive boundary work

Sandra Banjac, Folker Hanusch
Journalism, volume 24, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2155–2173
"Scholarship has pointed to an artificial hierarchy between political and lifestyle journalism that is rooted in norms and values stemming from Western-liberal thought. Within this distinction, lifestyle journalism has been subordinated as occupying a marginal or peripheral position in the field. Ye ... more
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing

Andreas Neef, Chanrith Ngin, Tsegaye Moreda, Sharlene Mollett (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 482 pp.
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodologica ... more
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National E-waste Monitor Botswana

Ditshupo Gaobotse, Stephen Pheko, Joyce Isa-Molwane, Neelo Michelle Oppedahl, Frank Molaletsi
Geneva: ITU (2023), viii, 29 pp.
"This report examines the overall statistics of electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) and e-waste generation in Botswana. The main findings indicate that 21 097 tonnes of EEE were placed on the market in Botswana in 2020 generated by demand from households and business ... more
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Consultation on media viability in Namibia

Windhoek: Editor's Forum of Namibia; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD); Namibia Media Trust; UNESCO (2023), 20 pp.
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Sustaining Exposure to Fact-Checks: Misinformation Discernment, Media Consumption, and its Political Implications

Jeremy Bowles, Kevin Croke, Horacio Larreguy, Shelley Liu, John Marshall
[authors] (2023), 37 + 27 pp.
"Exposure to misinformation can affect citizens’ beliefs, political preferences, and compliance with government policies. However, little is known about how to reduce susceptibility to misinformation in a sustained manner outside controlled environments, particularly in the Global South. We evalua ... more
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New Journalism Ecologies in East and Southern Africa: Innovations, Participatory and Newsmaking Cultures

Trust Matsilele, Shepherd Mpofu, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 319 pp.
"This volume presents case studies of news media employing and integrating social media into their news production practices. It links social media use to journalistic practices and news production processes in the digital age of the Global South. Critically, the chapters look at seminal cases of st ... more
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A Decolonial Analysis of the Cyberbullying of South African Women Journalists

Glenda Daniels
In: Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 135-148
"At the heart of decolonial theory is the love for woman, particularly black woman, as the most oppressed of political categories in the old colonial structures of race, class and gender hierarchy. This chapter uses decolonial theory, specifically Chela Sandoval’s concept of ‘decolonial love’ ... more
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Evaluating Use of Mass-Media Communication Intervention ‘MTV-Shuga’ on Increased Awareness and Demand for HIV and Sexual Health Services by Adolescent Girls and Young Women in South Africa: An Observational Study

Natsayi Chimbindi, Nondumiso Mthiyane, Chidumwa, Thembelihle Zuma, Jaco Dreyer
BMJ Open, volume 13, issue e062804 (2023), 12 pp.
"Objective: To investigate the effect of exposure to 'MTV Shuga:Down South’ (MTVShuga-DS) during the scale-up of combination HIV-prevention interventions on awareness and uptake of sexual reproductive health (SRH) and HIV-prevention services by adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) [...] Conclus ... more
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Indigenous Language for Development Communication in the Global South
Deep Insights

Abiodun Salawu, Tshepang Bright Molale, Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed, Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), 310 pp.
"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i ... more
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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

Stanley Tsarwe, Sarah Chiumbu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.
"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b ... more
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Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xvi, 397 pp.
"Covid Conspiracy Theories in Global Perspective examines how conspiracy theories and related forms of misinformation and disinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic have circulated widely around the world. Covid conspiracy theories have attracted considerable attention from researchers, journalists, ... more
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Nielsen BookScan Internacional - Informe trimestral, T5 2022

Bogotá: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en América Latina y el Caribe (CERLALC) (2023), 27 pp.
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Elections Reporting and Peace Journalism Manual

Zimbabwe Media Commission (2023), xii, 116 pp.
"The main objective of coming up with the manual is to equip media practitioners and media houses with the necessary knowledge and skills on how to report elections to assist in the creation of a conducive environment for the holding of free and credible elections. The manual gives media practitione ... more
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Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice: Cases in Post-School Education and Training in South Africa

Tabisa Mayisela, Shanali C. Govender, Cheryl Ann Hodgkinson-Williams (eds.)
Cape Town: African Minds (2022), xi, 396 pp.
"This volume investigates the uptake of 'open learning' in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to prom ... more
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Teaching and Learning Materials in Malawi

Nancy Kendall, Madalo Samati
UNESCO (2022), 35 pp.
"This brief examines the status of primary school TLMs in Malawi. It is based on interviews conducted with 22 Malawian educationalists, a review of international development education (IDE) project literature, and scholarly work on TLMs. It concludes that, particularly since the introduction of Free ... more
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Sounding the Nation, Sounding the Revolution: Music and Radio Broadcasting in Post-Colonial Mozambique (1975-1986)

Marco Roque de Freitas
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 80-103
"This article aims to identify the sounds, editorial policies and values promoted by Radio Moçambique (RM) during the so-called “socialist period” (1975–1986). Given the high illiteracy rate in the country, RM became the primary medium for informing the populations of FRELIMO’s ideology – ... more