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Paying the Piper: The Sustainability of the News Industry and Journalism in South Africa in a Time of Digital Transformation and Political Uncertainty

Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2018), 108 pp.
"This report explores the recent trajectory of South African news with a specific focus on the economic sustainability of news media. Digital news consumption on mobile phone, and especially via Social Media on Smart Phones (SMSP) is fracturing audiences and reducing traditional sources of revenue. ... more
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more
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Die Deutschen und ihre Kolonien: Ein Überblick

Horst Gründer, Hermann Joseph Hiery (eds.)
Berlin: be.bra Verlag, Sonderausg. (2018), 352 pp.
"Zwischen 1884 und 1914 besaß Deutschland ein Kolonialreich, das von Togo in Westafrika bis zu den Inseln Samoas im Pazifik reichte. Dieses Buch bietet einen kenntnisreichen und allgemeinverständlichen Überblick über das kurzlebige deutsche Kolonialabenteuer. Es informiert über die politischen ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa
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Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 497 pp.
"This handbook attempts to fill the gap in empirical scholarship of media and communication research in Africa, from an Africanist perspective. The collection draws on expert knowledge of key media and communication scholars in Africa and the diaspora, offering a counter-narrative to existing Wester ... more
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Digital Inclusion: An International Comparative Analysis

Massimo Ragnedda, Bruce Mutsvairo, Gerard Goggin (eds.)
Lanham: Lexington Books (2018), xx, 223 pp.
"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.
"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more
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Quid Pro Quo: How Donor-Funded Journalism Redefines Job Descriptions

Mia Malan
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 121-129
"Donor-funded journalism is a complex sphere, frequently characterised by balancing acts between the priorities of two vastly different environments. The health desk of one of South Africa’s legacy media outlets, the Mail & Guardian, owes its existence to philanthropy. Launched in 2013, the Bhekis ... more
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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Florencia Enghel, Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.
"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more
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The Plight of the Private Press During the Zimbabwe Crisis (2010–18)

Pedzisai Ruhanya
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 201-214
"This study critically examines how the private press in Zimbabwe survived during periods of economic and political crises. In year 2010, the Zimbabwe media fraternity saw the re-opening of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) after closure in 2003 and the emergence of the NewsDay, published by t ... more
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Interrogating the Role of Zimbabwe's Print Media in Environmental Reporting

Lisborn Webster Mandizvidza
University of South Africa (2018), ix, 263 pp.
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African Language Digital Media and Communication

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 236 pp.
"This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twi ... more
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Media, Geopolitics, and Power: A View from the Global South

Herman Wasserman
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2018), xvi, 217 pp.
"The end of apartheid brought South Africa into the global media environment. Outside companies invested in the nation's newspapers while South African conglomerates pursued lucrative tech ventures and communication markets around the world. Many observers viewed the rapid development of South Afric ... more
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When the Subaltern Speaks: Re-Examining Indigenous-Language Media as Alternative Public Sphere During Colonial South Africa

Gilbert Motsaathebe
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 169-183
"This article attempts to examine the efficacy of indigenous-language newspapers published in South Africa during the colonial era. In doing so, the article is particularly interested to see how the success achieved by those publications could be replicated to boost post-apartheid indigenous-languag ... more
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Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

Sylvester Dombo
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 277 pp.
"This book examines the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in the dearth of credible opposition political p ... more
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Global Photographies: Memory – History – Archives

Sissy Helff, Stefanie Michels (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2018), 208 pp.
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Public Engagement in Malawi Through a Health-Talk Radio Programme ‘Umoyo Nkukambirana’: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Deborah Nyirenda, Tamara Chipasula Makawa, Chapita, Greyson, Chisomo Mdalla, Nkolokosa, Mzati et al.
Public Understanding of Science, volume 27, issue 2 (2018), pp. 229-242
"Radio is an effective source of health information in many resource poor countries. In Malawi, 53% of households own radios however few radio programmes in Malawi focus on health issues in the context of medical research. An interactive health-talk radio programme ‘Umoyo nkukambirana’ was intro ... more
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How Influential are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231
"The increased presence of Chinese media in Africa has been the focus of much debate since the early 2010s. Discussions tend to revolve around issues of production and content, providing little evidence on the way audiences decode media messages aimed at extending China’s “soft power.” This ar ... more
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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi ... more
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Journalism Education and Training in Malawi: A Case for a National Policy

Levi Zeleza Manda, Noel Drake Kufaine
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 35-53
"[...] despite the welcome increase in the number of journalism and communication qualifications offered by public and private journalism training colleges in Malawi, the quality of the output is still lackluster. This is overwhelmingly because practical skills courses are taught inadequately, hapha ... more
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The Future of Radio in South Africa: Innovations and Trends
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Sarah Beham
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2018), 43 pp.