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Can Tanzania’s News Media Maintain Popular Support for Watchdog Role?

Rose Aiko
Afrobarometer (2015), 13 pp.
"Tanzanians express near-unanimous satisfaction with the degree of freedom of expression in the country: 96% of respondents in 2014 say they feel somewhat or completely free to say what they think. Two-thirds (65%) say the media should scrutinize the government and report on corruption and mistakes. ... more
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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students

Leketi Makalela
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418
"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi ... more
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Radios communautaires en RDC: Pluralisme bénéfique ou floraison des moutons noirs?

François Pascal Mbumba Mpanzu
In: Médias d'Afrique: Bingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 101-115
"[...] François Pascal Mbumba [écrit] sur la situation de ces médias particuliers en République démocratique du Congo, un pays qui se distingue par le caractère foisonnant de son secteur radiophonique qui compte actuellement plus de 500 stations. Les radios communautaires congolaises évoluent ... more
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Xenophobie und Medien in Südafrika: Eine Analyse über die Berichterstattung im April und Mai 2015

Verena Löffler
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2015), 12 pp.
"Die südafrikanischen Tageszeitungen Daily Sun, Sowetan, The Citizen und The Star repräsentieren die vier dominierenden Medienverlage in Südafrika und berichteten im April und Mai 2015 alle über Fremdenfeindlichkeit und Migration. Die meisten Artikel in der Stichprobe stammten von der Zeitung St ... more
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more
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TMF 2015-2018 Strategy: Strengthening Media for Accountability

Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2015), 51 pp.
"By October 2015, the TMF project will have transitioned from being a donor initiative to a new legal entity. Since 2008, the TMF project has been using grants as a way to increase quality content in as well as to strengthen the Tanzanian media landscape. This new strategic plan, which outlines the ... more
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National Communication Strategy for Malaria Control in Uganda

Kampala: Ministry of Health (2015), 40 pp.
"This Uganda national communication strategy for malaria prevention and control has been developed to facilitate the implementation of the Uganda Malaria Reduction Strategy (UMRS) 2014-2020. The strategy will offer a framework where every stakeholder shall take recommended actions to fund, prevent, ... more
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Embracing Web 2.0 and Social Media: A Life-Changing Pathway for Agricultural Development Actors

Clare Pedrick
Wageningen: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2015), 61 pp.
"Featuring a range of examples from ACP countries, this booklet includes testimonies on how Web 2.0 and social media have contributed to policy dialogue and advocacy (Chapter 1), value chain development (Chapter 2) and provision of information services (Chapter 3). The booklet features 18 stories co ... more
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Reflections on Elections in a Dominant Party State

Helge Rønning
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 149-155
"In my opinion it is too easy to conclude whether eleetion coverage in the media is balanced, solely based on quantitative data. Although this is obviously important, other aspects are equaliy important, particularly in a country such as Mozambique, where the written press does not penetrate much. A ... more
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Communicating War in Mali, 2012: On-Offline Networked Political Agency in Times of Conflict

Mirjam de Bruijn, Lotte Pelckmans, Boukary Sangare
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 109-128
"This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulani nomads and urbanites in the Mopti region (Hayre), who engage increasingly with new actors and networks present in the war zone: ‘rebels’ and jihadists; the diasp ... more
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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Devra C. Moehler
Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587
"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media ... more
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Afrika Filmfestival Leuven 2015

Guido Convents (ed.)
Leuven: vzw Film en Cultuurpromotie (2015), 210 pp.
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Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice

Christiaan De Beukelaer
Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.
"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks ... more
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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016
Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515
"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)
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Explosive Connections? Mass Media, Social Media, and the Geography of Collective Violence in African States

T. Camber Warren
Journal of Peace Research, volume 52, issue 3 (2015), pp. 297-311
"Growing evidence indicates that the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can substantially alter the contours of collective violence in developing nations. However, empirical investigations of such effects have generally been hampered by an inability to systematically meas ... more
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Les radios communautaires en Afrique de l'Ouest: Moteur de la gouvernance démocratique locale

Diana Senghor
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 81-99
"L'article examine en particulier la relation entre les radios dites communautaires et la gouvernance locale. Se fondant sur l'exemple du Sénégal, elle montre comment la décentralisation politique et administrative d'une part et l'émergence des radios locales d'autre part ont été deux dynamiqu ... more
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Quand l'Afrique réinvente la téléphonie mobile

Alain Kiyindou, Kouméalo Anaté, Alain Capo-Chichi (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 259 pp.
"Entre hybridation et réinvention, les pratiques communicationnelles liées à la téléphonie mobile offrent des perspectives de recherche stimulantes. Pour les opérateurs de téléphonie, il s’ouvre un réel champ, où d’observation en expérimentation, se créent de nouvelles offres. Au-del ... more
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From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide ... more
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Rapid Assessment on the Use of Radio in Extension and Advisory Services in Mozambique

Rex Chapota
USAID (2015), 33 pp.
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405
"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more