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A Clash of Cultures: Pirate Radio Convergence and Reception in Africa

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Chris Atton (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 494-504
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Botswana

Patrick Malope et al.
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) (2019), vi, 64 pp.
"The results of the study indicate that copyright industries make a significant contribution to the national economy of Botswana. In 2016, these industries contributed 5.46 per cent to value added and 2.66 per cent to the total labor force; meanwhile, in foreign trade they contributed 1.28 per cent ... more
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Future Proofing Community Radio

Jayshree Pather
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB); Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2019), 64 pp.
"This NAB guide is [...] aimed at assisting community radio as well as industry stakeholders to unpack current and future challenges facing the sector. These include issues such as digital disruption, technology convergence and the impact of new content platforms. The guide also provides an overview ... more
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The Fact-Checking Preferences of Africacheck.org's Audiences in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa

Anim van Wyk
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 18 pp.
"Africa Check, the continent’s first independent fact-Checking organisation of which I was chief editor until July 2019, has itself expanded exponentially. The organisation –a non-profit mainly funded by large foundations– launched in 2012 in South Africa with a junior researcher and part-time ... more
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Futuros criativos

André Nabais, Alexandro Cardoso, Débora Sanches, Fátima Proença et al.
Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2019), 239 pp.
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A Zambian Journalist: In Pursuit of Three Freedoms

Michael Daka
Lusaka: Gadsden Publishers (2019), 224 pp.
"Mike Daka's story is a fascinating account that is at once the story of an extraordinary journalist, and rich insight into the history of the media and journalism in Zambia and Southern Africa. Born into humble circumstances, his journey took him into journalism as reporter and editor and then to s ... more
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Token Transformation? A Critical Political Economy of the Media Analysis of Ownership and Content Diversity in South Africa's Print Media

Prinola Govenden
Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand (2019), 304 pp.
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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents

Mehita Iqani, Fernando Resende
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more
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Conflict-Sensitive Journalism: A Practical Handbook for Journalists in Southern Africa

Admire Mare (ed.)
Windhoek: Namibia University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Department of Communication; Social Science Research Council; African Peacebuilding Network (APN) (2019), 96 pp.
"The collection of essays in this volume seek among other things to draw attention to the virtues of conflict-sensitive journalism as a way of transforming the negative effects of ‘war’ journalism. Contributors to the handbook include journalists drawn from the following countries: eSwatini, Les ... more
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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Senthan Selvarajah (eds.)
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro ... more
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Redefining Community: Community Radio Licencing in Zimbabwe at Crossroads

Last Alfandika, Sarah Kimberly Muchetwa
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 42-56
"The promulgation of the Broadcasting Service Act (BSA), which contains a three-tier model of the broadcasting system, was supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting media sphere in Zimbabwe. It was supposed to change the dynamics of radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe by increasing the opportunity for p ... more
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Pooling Aid Sector Demand for Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Sizing Mobile Channel Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital Impact Alliance (dial); Altai Consulting (2019), 38 pp.
"We started by performing fieldwork in five countries, covering the four main SSA regions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. We then conducted 116 interviews across 78 organizations, covering the overall ecosystem: mobile network operators (MNOs), aggreg ... more
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After Access 2018: A Demand-Side View of Mobile Internet from 10 African Countries

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2019), vii, 38 pp.
"Of all 10 African countries surveyed, only in South Africa is more than half the population online. The Internet penetration rate in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria and Senegal is above the 20% threshold – but even this requires further investigation in a developing country context, where the unaf ... more
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Navigating Litigation During Internet Shutdowns in Southern Africa

Tyler Walton, Kuda Hove, Otto Saki, Anneke Meerkotter, Isabeau Steytler, Mariano Fanatico, Emma Heo
Southern Africa Litigation Centre (2019), 70 pp.
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Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Free Press Unlimited; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 68 pp.
"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)
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Insights from the Entertainment & Media Outlook: 2019-2023. An African Perspective. Getting Personal: Putting the me in Entertainment & Media

Vicki Myburgh, Charles Stuart
PWC, 10th annual ed. (2019), 189 pp.
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Motsutsana ndi zovuta zonse = Against all odds. A participatory film project in Dowa, Malawi. Facilitator's guide

Steps; Social Mobilization for Transformation (SMOT) (2019), 11 pp.
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Digital News Report 2019

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 153 pp.
"Despite the efforts of the news industry, we find only a small increase in the numbers paying for any online news – whether by subscription, membership, or donation. Growth is limited to a handful of countries mainly in the Nordic region (Norway 34%, Sweden 27%) while the number paying in the US ... more
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The Impact of Social Media in Conserving African Languages Amongst Youth in Limpopo Province

Edgar Julius Malatji
University of Limpopo, Doctoral Thesis (2019), xviii, 286 pp.
"This study focuses on the impact of social media towards conserving African languages, particularly Sepedi, Tshivenda and Xitsonga. Social media are given attention to explore their impact in conserving African languages amongst youth. Youth is a suitable group to focus on as they are the future an ... more
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Media Activism

Anastasia Denisova, Michaela O'Brien (eds.)
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 14, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-98