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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa

Felicitas Becker, Joel Cabrita, Marie Rodet (eds.)
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc ... 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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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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ISolezwe’s Coverage of the May 2008 Xenophobic Riots: An Irresolute Start and an Ambivalent End

Simphiwe Ngwane
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 297-315
"IsiZulu is one of South Africa’s Lingua francas and has two successful news publications, iLanga and iSolezwe, both written in isiZulu but vastly different in how they convey, craft and package news. This article aims to examine how iSolezwe, an isiZulu-language tabloid, used two editorials to sh ... more
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Investigative Journalism in Africa: An Exploratory Study of Non-Profit Investigative Journalism Organizations in Africa

Ntibinyane Ntibinyane
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2018), 99 pp.
"This exploratory study [.] argues that in a continent where traditional media organizations are increasingly failing to hold power to account, not-for-profit organizations are leading by example, setting the agenda and constantly scrutinizing those in power. This study further looks at the motivati ... more
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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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Discourses of Power and Counter-Power in the Zimbabwean Politico-Religious Communication in Online News Media

Nyasha Mapuweyi, Janina Wozniak
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 273-295
"Christianity as the predominant religion in Zimbabwe consists of several faith groupings, each of which responds to public events through the mass media. Mainline churches uphold a conventional human rights approach to faith-based political criticism, while Mapostori or Apostolic churches follow an ... more
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The Zambian Press Freedom Conundrum: Reluctance Rather Than Resilience

Twange Kasoma, Greg Pitts
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 129-144
"As different governments have assumed power in Zambia since the democratic tide that swept across Africa in the early 1990s, the conundrum of a free press continues to complicate governance and journalistic practices. This study investigated how members of Parliament (MPs) felt about press freedom. ... more
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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Stephen M. Croucher (ed.)
New York; London: Routledge (2017), vii, 376 pp.
"What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geograph ... more
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The Role of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Staffers in Mediating Malawi's Ideological Nation-Building Project: The Case of 'Speak Out'

Sydney Friendly Kankuzi
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 141-158
"The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) was established as Malawi's first national radio station when the country gained independence from Britain in 1964, partly with an ideological function of mobilising Malawians for the task of nation building. Since its inception, the broadcaster has been ac ... more
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“Preaching to the Converted”: Teaching Calvinistic Media Ethics in the Apartheid Era

Arnold S. De Beer
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 31, issue 1 (2017), pp. 82-99
"The purpose of this article is to shed light on a Christian Reformed version of media ethics, more particularly one that was applied for just more than half a century (1960–2014) during the apartheid era and thereafter at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (PUCHE), now No ... more
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Networks of Communication in South Africa: New Media, New Technologies

R. Sooryamoorthy
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xii, 288 pp.
"R. Sooryamoorthy examines the development of communication patterns, social contacts and networks in South Africa. Based on pioneering quantitative and qualitative data, he analyses trends in changing media use in Africa, showing the development of the use of new media for communication by South Af ... more
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Watching Out for Media: An Institutional Ethnographic Perspective on the Feminist Democratic Media Activism of "Media Monitoring Africa"

Giuliana Sorce
Pennsylvania State University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), xi, 180 pp.
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Assessing the Role of Community Radio Stations in Facilitating Development: A Case Study of Forte FM in the Eastern Cape Province

Mawokomayi Betina
Alice: University of Fort Hare, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Master Thesis (2017), xv, 160 pp.
"Forte FM is a community radio station located at University of Fort Hare Alice campus and was established to facilitate development in communities within the Amathole district municipality. Alice, a small rural town under Raymond Mhlaba Municipality, is one of the communities under the coverage of ... more
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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan
Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15
"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more
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Digital Environments: Ethnographic Perspectives Across Global Online and Offline Spaces

Urte Undine Frömming, Steffen Köhn, Samantha Fox, Mike Terry (eds.)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2017), 267 pp.
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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)
Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.
"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more
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The Audience-Centred Approach to Media Policymaking: A Critical Analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a Participatory Process of Review

Julie Reid
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 74-99
"This article presents and makes a case for the audience-Centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this discussion within the South African revision of the regulatory mechanism for the press. In South Africa the press accountability mechanism, the Press Council of South Afric ... more
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
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Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... more