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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices

Tendai Chari
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat ... more
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Barómetro Africano da Media: Moçambique 2014

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 111 pp.
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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries

Rebecca Stringer
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more
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Whose Media, Whose Agenda? Monitoring the Malawi 2014 Tripartite Elections

Ivor Gaber, Edrinnie Lora-Kayambazinthu
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 106-114
"In 2014 Malawi experienced its first-ever tripartite elections involving presidential, parliamentary and local government contests. The role of the media was monitored in a major operation covering radio, television, newspapers, news websites and social media. The results revealed that, with the ex ... more
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In Service of Two Masters: A Political History of Radio in Pre-Independence Botswana

James Zaffiro
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 28, issue 6 (2014), pp. 958-976
"This study identifies and critically analyses the major imperial (global and regional) political and economic factors and decisions that influenced and shaped the development of pre-independence radio broadcasting in the Bechuanaland Protectorate. With little or no consideration of the needs of the ... more
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Análise da cobertura de saúde na mídia moçambicana 2013

Rui Lamarques
Maputo: IREX (2014), 32 pp.
"Se quisermos caracterizar o perfil das fontes às quais os jornalistas recorreram, poder-se-á dizer que esta é masculina, oficial e com fala desenraizada de um lugar geográfico específico – portanto, de nível nacional. É o caso do ministro da Saude, Alexandre Manguele, que é uma fonte reco ... more
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Women and Media: Africa in Focus

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 35 slides
"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male ... more
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The Network Society, Power and the Print Media in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Media Contestation in Durban for Environmental Justice

Llewellyn Leonard
Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 966-981
"This article is interested in the extent to which various social actors in the Durban network society, such as civil society, corporations and the state, shape public information and perception in their own interests regarding environmental discourse. Empirical evidence presents viewpoints from key ... more
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HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa: Are You Human?

Colin Chasi
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 89 pp.
"Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicab ... more
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Business Journalism Thrives - Even Under Repressive Regimes

Don Podesta
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2014), 8 pp.
"Even as a growing number of authoritarian regimes crack down on the political press, business news is thriving. And the coverage is more vigorous than might be expected. Enterprising journalists are exposing mismanagement and unearthing shady business deals, and — even at times exposing official ... more
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The Re-Emergence of Diasporic Radio in Independent Zimbabwe

Everette Ndlovu
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 54-72
"The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled outside Zimbabwe to examine how diasporic radio has re-emerged in independent Zimbabwe, where it manages to utilise affordable communication technologies to link with the population, providing the people with an a ... more
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Third-party complaints in the system of press regulation: Inviting the reader to take part in journalistic accountability and securing press freedom

Julie Reid
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 2 (2014), pp. 58-74
"The system of self-regulation for the press was subject to contentious debates in South Africa from 2010 to 2012. The Press Council of South Africa and the accountability mechanism for the press (self-regulation) underwent two separate processes of review during this period, subsequently altering t ... more
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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2013

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 75 pp.
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Uses and Gratifications of Christian Television Viewers: A Case for Luntha TV in Malawi

Andrew Kaufa
Balaka (MW): Montfort Media (2014), 160 pp.
"This study sought to find out the specific uses and gratifications of Christian television viewers with a view of providing relevant information base for the re-launch of Luntha TV in Malawi. The population of this study was Christian television viewers from 10 denominations in and around Area 18 i ... more
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb (eds.)
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
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'The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio in the Digital Age

Sarah Helen Chiumbu
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 249-264
"In this article, I analyse the changing nature and meaning of ‘community’ in community radio in the digital age using insights from literature on imagined communities, translocality and liminality. I argue that new media technologies are opening up new spaces for community radio that go beyond ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more
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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.
"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more
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Care Takers: Sustaining South Africa's Rich Biodiversity. Series 2. Facilitators Guide

Steps; SANBI (2014), 40 pp.