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Mass Media in Zambia: Demand-Side Measures of Access, Use and Reach

Gayatri Murthy, Muzammil M. Hussain
Washington, DC: InterMedia (2010), 50 pp.
"The data presented in this report are based on a survey conducted in April and May 2010 among Zambian adults age 15 and above. Using the 2000 Zambian National Census as the sampling frame and a stratified random sampling design, a nationally representative probability sample of 2,000 respondents wa ... more
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Health Communication in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 205-367
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Writing Change: Affirmative Action as a Tool for Newspaper Transformation at the Durban Post

Miriam Leshin
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 51-72
"This study explores the use of affirmative action as a tool for transformation in the mainstream English-language press in South Africa through a case study at The Durban Post. It seeks to understand the extent to which the newspaper has transformed its staff, coverage and readership in the eyes of ... more
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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.
"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more
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L'Église Catholique en Afrique = The Catholic Church in Africa = A Igreja Católica em África

Paris: Oeuvres Pontificales Missionaires (OPM); Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), 24th ed. (2010), 775 pp.
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Broadcasting in UN Blue: The Unexamined Past and Uncertain Future of Peacekeeping Radio
Deep Insights

Bill Orme
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 73 pp.
"For almost twenty years, United Nations peacekeeping missions have set up local radio stations in conflict-prone countries - 14 to date, seven of which remain in operation. According to this report, some of the fourteen peacekeeping radio stations implemented by the United Nations contributed more ... more
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Debating “Zimbabweanness” in Diasporic Internet Forums: Technologies of Freedom?

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano
In: Zimbabwe’s New Diaspora: Displacement and the Cultural Politics of Survival
Joann McGregor, Ranka Primorac (eds.)
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2010), pp. 183-201
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Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa

Last Moyo
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 4-5 (2010), pp. 425-440
"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given ... more
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Fair Lady: Effective Coverage of Politics in a Women’s Magazine

Chanél Boshoff, Lynnette Fourie, Thalyta Swanepoel
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2010), pp. 163-185
"The article discusses the coverage of politics in South African women’s magazine Fair Lady in selected years from democratisation in 1994 to ten years later in 2004. In a democracy, the media has the explicit duty to inform society. Within this context three questions are asked: (1) Which politic ... more
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South Africa

Libby Lloyd, Jane Duncan
Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xiii, 273 pp.
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Communication for Empowerment: Global Report

Elizabeth McCall, Birgitte Jallov
Oslo; South Orange, New Jers.: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre; Communication for Social Change Consortium (2010), 52 pp.
"The 52-page report summarised here is the result of the three-year partnership between UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and the Communication for Social Change Consortium in piloting the C4E approach in five least-developed countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Ghana, Lao PDR, and Nepal. The report present ... more
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Media System and News Selection in Namibia

Andreas Rothe
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2010), 219 pp.
"This publication was created to serve two purposes: Firstly, it aims to provide a thorough review of the status quo of the Namibian media system. Secondly, it is the first study to apply the theory of the European-focused news value research tradition to Namibian media. Aside from literature and on ... more
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Diasporic Grief and Grievance On-Line: How South African and Serbian Diasporas Use the Web

Eric Louw, Zala Volcic
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), 19 pp.
"This paper explores the political and psychological angles of white South African and Serbian diasporas’ discourses on-line. On the basis of textual analysis of diasporic websites we argue that participants speak of ongoing grievance over the loss of their countries and assert that they have been ... more
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Negotiating Journalism Ethics in Zambia: Towards a 'Glocal' Ethics

Fackson Banda
In: Media Ethics Beyond Borders: A Global Perspective
Stephen J. A. Ward, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2010), pp. 124-141
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Farm Radio: An Effective Tool for Increasing Access to Agricultural Extension Messages by Small Scale Farmers in Malawi. Proceedings Report of the 1st Annual Farm Radio Symposium

Lilongwe; Ottawa: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Department of Agricultural Extension Services; Farm Radio International (2010), ix, 59 pp.
"This paper discusses the effectiveness of farm radio as a tool for enhancing access to agricultural extension services by small scale farmers in Malawi. It outlines the current agricultural extension policies, methodologies and the role that radio can play in improving food security and communicati ... more
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ICTs and Development in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities

David Souter
London: Panos London (2010), 8 pp.
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Scholarly Publishing in Africa: Opportunities & Impediments

Solani Ngobeni (ed.)
Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa (2010), xxv, 378 pp.
"The proceedings of a conference held at the Africa Institute of South Africa in 2009, this is a major new collection of essays on the state of scholarly publishing in Africa, with a strong emphasis on the situation in South Africa. The conference was convened, and the papers published, in an attemp ... more
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Mozambique

Tomás Vieira Mário
Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xi, 145 pp.
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Making Our Media: Global Initiatives Toward a Democratic Public Sphere. Vol. I: Creating New Communication Spaces

Clemencia Rodríguez, Dorothy Kidd, Laura Stein (eds.)
Cresskill: Hampton Press (2010), x, 338 pp.
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Telling the right(s) story? Die Arbeit der Nichtregierungsorganisation „Media Monitoring Africa“ in Johannesburg/Südafrika

Susanne Dietmann
Kaiserslautern: Technische Universität, Fernstudium „Nachhaltige Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“, Hausarbeit (2010), 38 pp.