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Dez anos da lei de acesso à informação: Limites, perspectivas e desafios

Elen Geraldes, Alessandra Durante, Barros Dirlene, Gabriela Kaya et al.
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 260 pp.
"Este livro surge em defesa da Lei de Acesso às Informações Públicas, que completa dez anos da entrada em vigor em 16 de maio de 2022. A Lei 12.527/11 ou LAI, como é conhecida, é inegavelmente um instrumento importante para a promoção da participação e da cidadania para a constituição de ... more
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Malawi Media Landscape Guide

Levi Zeleza Manda et al.
CDAC Network; Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 25 pp.
"This Media Landscape Guide provides a snapshot of the media in Malawi, including the audiences, the producers, the preferences of different groups in the community, the communications culture, and the languages associated with the media. It gives an insight into the role of media in development wor ... more
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Platform Work Amidst the Cost of Living Crisis: South Africa Ratings 2022

Sharon Geeling, Pitso Tsibolane, Kelle Howson et al.
Fairwork; Oxford Internet Institute; Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (2022), 43 pp.
"This fourth Fairwork report for South Africa continues to chart the evolution of the national platform economy. In South Africa, digital labour platforms hold the potential to reduce the extremely high levels of unemployment and inequality. However, the annual South African Fairwork ratings also p ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2021-2022: Digital Futures for a Post-Pandemic World

Alan Finlay et al.
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2022), 268 pp.
"The pandemic made inequality, discrimination, exclusion and structural inequity more palpable, and rather than stagnating in indignation, it reactivated a sense of rebellion and contestation. The strength and sharpness with which we connect social justice, gender justice, environmental justice, eco ... more
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Reframing Africa? Reflections on Modernity and the Moving Image

Cynthia Kros, Reece Auguiste, Pervaiz Khan (eds.)
Cape Town; Bethlehem, PA: African Minds; Media Studies Press (2022), ix, 246 pp.
"Reframing Africa is at root a project about the African archive broadly defined. It asks questions pertaining to this archive as a repository of historical knowledge, its systems of classification, and what strategies should be developed to ensure its preservation in light of state negligence. In a ... more
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Rooted in Trust: The Humanitarian Bulletin. Zimbabwe, June, 2022

Internews (2022), 6 pp.
"Internews in Zimbabwe collected 276 rumors on-line and 36 offline in the communities of Masvingo, Matabeleland South, Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Midlands. The most trending rumors include that COVID-19 vaccines are unsafe for children (35%), COVID-19 vaccines cause death (31%), COVID-19 vacc ... more
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Data Journalism Practice in Sub-Saharan African Media Systems: A Cross-National Survey of Journalists’ Perceptions in Zambia and Tanzania

Gregory Gondwe, Robert A. White
African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 2 (2022), pp. 21-36
"This study explores the state of data-driven journalism practices in Sub-Saharan Africa. It aims at examining journalists’ perceptions of data-driven journalism in Zambia and Tanzania as it attempts to redefine and demystify the concept. We base our hypotheses on the notion that most journalists ... 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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Collective Memory: Visual Perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa

Ebenezar Acquah, Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako, Patrique deGraft-Yankson, Mary Clare Kidenda, Nicola Pauli, Avi Sooful (eds.)
München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.
"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote ... more
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The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists
Deep Insights

Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.
"This ground-breaking three-year global study on gender-based online violence against women journalists represents collaborative research covering 15 countries. It is the most geographically, linguistically, and ethnically diverse scoping of the crisis conducted up until late 2022. The research draw ... more
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Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 252 pp.
"Delving into the meanings, implications, contexts and effects of extreme speech and gated communities in the media landscape, the chapters analyse misleading metaphors and rhetoric via focused case studies to understand how we can overcome the risks and threats stemming from the past decade's defin ... more
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Assessment of Media Development in Malawi: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Francis Chikunkhuzeni, Peter Mhagama, Jacob Jimu, Paul Kingstone Mphepo et al.
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 157 pp.
"Malawi has seen an exponential growth of its media, both in quality and quantity. For example, there were only two broadcasting stations at the start of the 1990s, while Malawi has increased this over the years to 57 radio stations and 14 television broadcasters. Although the plurality of Malawi’ ... more
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A Qualitative Exploration of the Salience of MTV-Shuga, an Edutainment Programme, and Adolescents’ Engagement with Sexual and Reproductive Health Information in Rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Nambusi Kyegombe, Thembelihle Zuma, Siphesihle Hlongwane, Mxolisi Nhlenyama, Natsayi Chimbindi et al.
Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters, volume 30, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-12
"This paper examines the extent to which an edutainment programme, MTV-Shuga, was reported to influence young people’s engagement with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 2019 we conducted eight community-based screenings of MTV-Shuga episodes ... more
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.
"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr ... more
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Television Dramas and the Global Village: Storytelling Through Race and Gender

Diana I. Rios, Carolyn A. Lin (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2022), ix, 320 pp.
"This book discusses the role of television drama series on a global scale, analyzing these dramas across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. Contributors consider the role of television dramas as economically valuable cultural products and with their depictions of gender roles, sexua ... more
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African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change

Ezra Chitando, Ernst M. Conradie, Susan M. Kilonzo (eds.)
Routledge (2022), xi, 241 pp.
"This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith ... more
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Landscape Study of AI Policies and Use in Southern Africa: Research Report

Harare: UNESCO Office in Harare (2022), 89 pp.
"This report is intended to provide a broad review of the use and emerging governance of AI technology in Southern Africa. It aims at initiating public discussions and policy dialogue not only on the technological implications of the use of AI, but also on the social, political, and ethical signific ... 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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Social media and behaviour in Zimbabwe: A case of the Ruwa youths in Harare

D. H. Mapuvire, V. Mapuvire
Public Administration & Development Alternatives (JPADA), volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 50-59
"Social media, with its generally reported adverse effects, has become prevalent in daily lives of young people in Zimbabwe. The aim of this article is to outline the effects of social media on youth behaviour in Zimbabwe, as described by the Ruwa youths in Harare. The article reports the results of ... more
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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa

Fazila Farouk
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.
"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo ... more