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Social Media and Journalism in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122
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Lions Go Digital: The Internet’s Transformative Potential in Africa

James Manyika, Armando Cabral, Lohini Moodley, Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Suraj Moraje, Michael Chui, Jerry Anthonyrajah, Acha Leke
McKinsey (2013), 112 pp.
"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid ... more
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Government Secrecy in an Information Age: 2013 Report on Open & Secretive Public Institutions in Southern Africa

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 130 pp.
"This study carried out between May and June 2013, seeks to establish levels of transparency in public institution in Southern Africa. The study in currently in its fourth year, and findings highlight the difficulties faced by Southern African when trying to seek, access and receive information from ... more
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more
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Using Radio to Drive Development in Southern Africa: Report on the Radio Platform for Community Development (RPCD)

Lusaka: Panos Southern Africa (2013), x, 27 pp.
"The project aimed at enhancing the capacity of community radio stations to operate as agents of change for the rural poor and marginalised people [...] The project worked with a sample of 15 community radio stations – five per country – in Malawi, Mozambique and Zambia. In implementing the RPCD ... more
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Investigative Journalism in Grassroots Independent Print Media in South Africa: A Baseline Study of the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF); Association of Independent Publishers (AIP); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 20 pp.
"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a ... more
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Starving the Messenger: A Study of Journalists’ Conditions of Service in Malawi

Levi Zeleza Manda, Noel Drake Kufaine
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 2, issue 2-3 (2013), pp. 301-311
"This study used in-depth interviews to investigate the conditions of service and welfare of journalists in Malawi. It found that while the Media Council of Malawi code of professional ethics and standards and in-house policies expected the best out the journalists, the majority of the journalists, ... more
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Speaking Up and Talking Back? Media Empowerment and Civic Engagement Among East and Southern African Youth

Thomas Tufte, Norbert Wildermuth, Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes, Winnie Mitullah (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2013), 302 pp.
"The book questions whether and how young citizens in Africa engage with media and communications technologies and platforms in a desire to be included in the change processes of their societies. The theme echoes some of the claims made by disenchanted and frustrated youth and other citizens in the ... more
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Youth, Facebook and Politics in South Africa

Tanja Bosch
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 119-130
"This article explores how Facebook is used by South African youth, with particular reference to their political participation and involvement. Research has shown the declining involvement of young people in political processes, particularly since democratic elections in 1994. This is an internation ... more
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South Africa’s Media 20 Years After Apartheid

Libby Lloyd
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 54 pp.
"South Africa’s news media has become, in the post-1994 democratic era, among the most concentrated in the world, affecting the quality of its content and the sales of its newspapers. A significant decrease in international development support, and post-1994 changes to the nature of that support, ... more
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Estado do jornalismo investigativo 2012: Um panorama da imprensa moçambicana

Julieta Langa (red.)
Maputo: IREX Moçambique (2013), 32 pp.
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Using Narrative Communication in a Mass-Produced Youth Magazine as an HIV Prevention Intervention

Esther Etkin
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 3-17
"With young people at the epicentre of the HIV epidemic, we need to build upon and find ways of sustaining interventions that place youth at the centre of prevention. This article argues that narrative communication is one such strategy, provided it is part of a comprehensive HIV prevention plan. Na ... more
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Media Interventions

Kevin Howley (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2013), xvi, 430 pp.
"This collection of essays, the first book-length treatment of its kind, explicates the concept of «media interventions», which are herein defined as activities and projects that secure, exercise, challenge or acquire media power for tactical and strategic action. Drawing on insights from media, c ... more
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Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression in South Africa

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI); RAITH Foundation (2013), 32 pp.
"The Freedom of Expression Institute sought to prepare a module on Hate speech in South Africa with the aim of providing basic insight on the framework of hate speech as an aspect of freedom of expression to individuals, communities, social groups and civil society in general. This comes out of the ... more
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more
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Telecentres for Sustainable Rural Development: Review and Case Study of a South African Rural Telecentre

Marthinius C. Breitenbach
Development Southern Africa, volume 30, issue 2 (2013), pp. 262-278
"This paper evaluates a South African rural telecentre that may serve as a ‘best practice’ model. The paper first provides a brief literature review of telecentres and the role of information and communication technology in economic development. A qualitative evaluation of a case study is presen ... more
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The Impacts of an Entertainment-Education Radio Serial Drama in Botswana on Outcomes Related to HIV Prevention Goals in the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief

L. Meghan Mahoney, Benjamin R. Bates
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 3 (2013), pp. 353-367
"This study examines the effectiveness of an entertainment education (EE) programme, Makgabaneng, in reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS in Botswana. If successful, this communication intervention should result in greater self-report of attitudes, actions and knowledge related to risk reduction goals am ... more
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Entertainment Education and Social Change

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 27, issue 1 (2013), 146 pp.
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Access to Information in Africa: Examining Progress Since the APAI Declaration

Windhoek: African Platform on Access to Information (APAI); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 91 pp.
"Out of the twelve countries surveyed, only four have specific access to information laws. These countries are: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. However, a significant indication of the shifting tide on the continent is that six of the countries surveyed have some form of specific access to ... more
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The World Internet Project: International Report

Jeffrey I. Cole et al.
Los Angeles: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Center for the Digital Future, 5th ed. (2013), 87 pp.