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Résurgence du Mouvement du 23 mars : Quel avenir pour la Région des Grands Lacs africains ?

Goma: Éditions de Pole Institute (2023), 331 pp.

"Ce numéro porte un regard critique sur la crise que traverse actuellement la Province du Nord Kivu, et la RDC en général, à cause de la nouvelle guerre imposée au pays par le mouvement rebelle M23. Connaissant une période sécuritaire sombre qui y a motivé l’instauration d’un État de si ... more

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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

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Audience Perceptions of Radio Stations and Journalists in the Great Lakes Region

Marie-Soleil Frère

In: Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2016), pp. 113-139

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Media and Journalism in Peace Work

Christiane Kayser, Flaubert Djateng (eds.)

Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2015), 110 pp.

"[...] we have tried to reproduce some keys to the theory behind journalism and the media in a crisis situation without forgetting the internet and the social networks. We do not recommend a single approach but try to provide you with the major principles of responsible and professional work in this ... more

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Médias et journalisme dans le travail pour la paix

Christiane Kayser, Flaubert Djateng (eds.)

Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2015), 112 pp.

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Comunicación para la paz en acción: Periodismos, conflictos, alfabetización mediática y alianza de civilizaciones = Communication for Peace in Action: Journalisms, Conflicts, Media Literacy and Alliance of Civilizations

Eloísa Nos Aldás, José Ignacio Martín Galán, Fatuma Ahmed Ali (eds.)

Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I (2011), 301 pp.

"Desde la perspectiva de los medios de comunicación, se presentan en esta obra investigaciones académicas y lecciones aprendidas en cuatro apartados: el impacto de los medios de comunicación en la construcción de violencia cultural, medios alternativos para la construcción de paz, alfabetizaci� ... more

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Radio Kwizera: Empowerment in a Fragile Region

Damas Missanga

In: Media on the Move: Migrants and Minorities and the Media. 4th Symposium Forum Medien Und Entwicklung (FoME)

Christoph Dietz, Petra Stammen (eds.)

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2009), pp. 18-24

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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)

New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.

"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more

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Afrique des grands lacs: Comprendre la crise

Paris: MFI (Radio France); Panos (2004), 98 pp.

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IRIN: Evaluation Report

Graham Mytton, Sharon Rusu

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) (2003), 110 pp.