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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
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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-213
Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xvii, 305 pp.
"This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratiz
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Social Media and Politics in Africa: Democracy, Censorship and Security
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp.
"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra
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Social Media in Zimbabwe: A Toxic Tool or a Future Bridge to Peace?
Tokyo: Toda Peace Institute (2019), 10 pp.
"The rise of social media in Zimbabwe has brought with it a greater variety of platforms which offer people a means to express themselves. However, the democratisation of information and the increase in digital spaces have also come with greater state restriction and polarisation among Zimbabweans.
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Community Newspaper as a Tool for Community Development: A Readers’ Perception Study of Idikelethu Newspaper in Alice, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Journal of Asian and African Studies, volume 54, issue 6 (2019), pp. 930-944
"This paper evaluates readers’ perceptions of Idikelethu newspaper as a tool for community development, particularly in Alice, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Data was collected from two focus group discussions that were held in the areas where Idikelethu newspaper has high readershi
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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
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Digital News Report 2019
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
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The Impact of Social Media in Conserving African Languages Amongst Youth in Limpopo Province
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
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
Deep Insights
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service
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Video Games and the Global South
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University; ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.
"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi
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Dialogue Between Absentees? Liberation Radio Engages its Audiences, Namibia, 1978-1989
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2019), pp. 489-510
"Liberation radios, the propaganda stations operated by the anti-Apartheid and anticolonial movements Southern Africa, provide us with a unique lens on the relationship between broadcasters and their audiences. Most importantly, they conceptualized audiences in a specific, two-pronged way to mobiliz
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Investigating Usage of Social Media Platforms in South Africa
African Journal of Information Systems, volume 11, issue 4 (2019), pp. 314-336
"This study investigated the differences in usage of different social media platforms within the South African context, broken down by user characteristics, specifically gender and age, in addition to investigating the correlation between usage of differing social media platforms. This was carried o
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The Role of Community Radios in Information Dissemination to Rural Women in South Africa
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58
"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w
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