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Os Moçambicanos perante o cinema e o audiovisual: Uma historia político-cultural do Moçambique colonial até à República de Moçambique (1896-2010)
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Guido Convents
Maputo; Holsbeek: Dockanema; Afrika Filmfestival (2011), 677 pp.
"This is the first monograph on the history of film culture ever for lusophone Africa. It consists of three parts: the colonial period (1896-1974), the first years of independence (1975-1991) and the years of the liberalization of the media (1992-2010). In these three periods attention is given to t ... more
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Media Toolkit for Local Governance in Lesotho

Paul J. M. van Hoof
Pretoria: Idasa; MISA Lesotho (2011), 39 pp.
"This Media Toolkit for Local Governance in Lesotho is designed to encourage media coverage of news and events in Lesotho’s rural areas at local government level. According to the publication, to improve such media coverage there is a need to focus both on the providers and the collectors of news. ... more
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric ... more
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Zimbabwe’s Community Radio ‘initiatives’: Promoting Alternative Media in a Restrictive Legislative Environment

Nhamo Mhiripiri
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 107-126
"Unlike most nations in southern Africa, Zimbabwe has not seen the expansion in community radio stations that has been characteristic of the region from the 1990s. A number of community radio initiatives (CRIs) were formed after the 2001 Zimbabwean Broadcasting Services Act (BSA), but no licences we ... more
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Acting on HIV: Using Drama to Create Possibilities for Change

Dennis A. Francis (ed.)
Rotterdam; Boston; Taipei: Sense Publishers (2011), xii, 153 pp.
"Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promo ... more
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Radio and Religion: A Case of Difference and Diversity

Maria Frahm-Arp
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 208-222
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Legislation, Regulation, and Management in the South African Broadcasting Landscape: A Case Study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli
In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy
Robin Mansell, Marc Raboy (eds.)
Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 414-431
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The State of Media Freedom in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388
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Contesting Mainstream Media Power: Mediating the Zimbabwe Crisis Through Clandestine Radio

Dumisani Moyo
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 49-62
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Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
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Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), xv, 320 pp.
"Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low l ... more
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A Tangled Web: Human Trafficking, Child Protection and the Media

Melanie Hamman, Laura Fletcher
Media Monitoring Africa (2011), 60 pp.
"This report examines South African media coverage of human trafficking during the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. The monitoring period included the month during the World Cup and the month immediately after (11/06/2010 – 06/08/2010). A total of 3009 newspaper stories and broadcast items were monit ... more
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Community Radio: The Future Speaks “glocal”. An African Experience: The Guinea-Bissau & Mozambique Cases

Patricia Mota Paula
Signo y Pensamiento, volume 31, issue julio-diciembre (2011), pp. 282-297
"This article focuses on a comparative analysis of community radio realities in two Lusophone African countries: Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, whose local ield research refers to 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009, respectively. It focuses on the tense relationship between political power and community radio ... more
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The Myth of Press Freedom in Botswana: From Sir Seretse Khama to Ian Khama

Letshwiti B. B. Tutwane
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 1 (2011), pp. 43-55
"This article argues that for all the plaudits that it has received Botswana is not a true example of democracy. It only continues to shine because of its historical context and the elaborate machinations of the ruling party. It supports Good's (1996) thesis of Authoritarian Liberalism as an apt des ... more
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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2010

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 218 pp.
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China in South Africa: The Media’s Response to a Developing Relationship

Herman Wasserman
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2011), 20 pp.
"Literature about China’s role in Africa suggests that China’s presence on the continent is often viewed in stark binary terms, as either an exploitative, predatory force or a benevolent, development partner. An analysis of attitudes in the South African media over the last three years (if De Be ... more
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Political Economy of Media Transformation in South Africa

Anthony Olorunnisola, Keyan G. Tomaselli (eds.)
Cresskill, New Jers.: Hampton Press (2011), ix, 304 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Legal Survey

Toby Mendel
Paris: UNESCO, 2nd ed., revised and updated (2011), ix, 96 pp.
"This book explores the legal and regulatory systems governing public service broadcasters in eight different countries around the world, looking at the services they provide, the way in which their mandates are defined, their internal governance systems, mechanisms of oversight or accountability an ... more
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Revisiting the ‘leapfrog’ Debate in Light of Current Trends of Mobile Phone Internet Usage in the Greater Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Tamsin van Tonder
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 263-276
"At first glance, mobile technology appears to have the potential to allow countries in Africa to technologically ‘leapfrog’ across the digital divide and provide much needed Internet access to a wide range of people currently unable to participate in the Information Society. This study investig ... more
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Human Rights and African Airwaves: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio

Harri Englund
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2011), x, 294 pp.
"Focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi’s public radio. The program often takes authorities to task and questions much of the human rights rhetoric that comes from international organizations. Highlighting obligation and mutual dependence, the program ex ... more