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New Media Entrepreneurs and Changing Styles of Public Communication in Africa: Introduction

Tilo Grätz
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-13
"Central to the work represented in this issue is what we have called the emergence of new media entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. These actors generate a multitude of new (and often not easily definable) genres of information as well as entertainment and distraction, but also persuasion and heal ... more
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Towards a Diagnostic Approach to Media in Fragile States: Examples from the Somali Territories

Nicole Stremlau
Media, War & Conflict, volume 6, issue 3 (2013), pp. 279-293
"Media interventions by international organizations and NGOs in conflict and post-conflict situations seek to develop and shape a media system to contribute to specific political and social ends. The analyses and assessments that inform these interventions are often based on an overview of the forma ... more
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Media in Mali Divided by Conflict

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS); Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Panos West Africa (2013), 37 pp.
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Edutainment: Using Stories and Media for Social Action and Behaviour Change
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Harriet Perlman et al.
Johannesburg: Soul City Institute (2013), 141 pp.
"This manual is for media practitioners and social activists who wish to use the power of entertainment and mass media to promote health, human rights and social justice. Drawing on successful stories and case studies from Africa and elsewhere, this manual aims to inspire, give fresh ideas and share ... more
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The Long Shadow of Chinese Censorship: How the Communist Party’s Media Restrictions Affect News Outlets Around the World

Sarah Cook
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2013), 67 pp.
"This report focuses on six types of media outlets based outside mainland China that together reach news consumers in dozens of countries: major international media; local outlets in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; mainstream media in Hong Kong and Taiwan; exile Chinese outlets providing uncensored ... 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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Deconstructing the Community Radio Model: Applying Practice to Theory in East Africa

David Conrad
Journalism, volume 15, issue 6 (2013), pp. 773-789
"Community radio is often theorized as being (1) independent from political and economic influence and (2) a platform for the meaningful engagement of marginalized populations traditionally excluded by its private and commercial cousins. Contrasting this theoretical model against the reality of prac ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)
Wiley; Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
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Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich

Barbara Thomaß (ed.)
Konstanz: UVK, 2nd ed. (2013), 378 pp.
"Das in zweiter Auflage überarbeitete Lehrbuch führt konsistent und verständlich in Theorie, Methodik und Gegenstandsbereiche der international vergleichenden Mediensystemforschung ein. Es macht mit deren Fragestellungen vertraut und arbeitet die für den Vergleich relevanten Strukturelemente her ... 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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A Baseline Study of Youth Identity, the Media and the Public Sphere in South Africa

Jane Duncan, Irene Costera Meijer, Nico Drok et al.
School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University (2013), v, 115 pp.
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Climate Change in Africa: A Guidebook for Journalists

Mike Shanahan, Willie Shubert, Cameron Scherer et al.
Paris: UNESCO (2013), 91 pp.
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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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Listeners' Clubs: New Partnerships

Dimitra Newsletter, issue 23 (2013), pp. 3-7
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Die Lage der Bistumspresse: Ein Blick über die Grenze. Kirchenzeitungen in Poona, Gitega und Leitmeritz

Andrea Franzetti, Annika Franzetti
Communicatio Socialis, volume 46, issue 1 (2013), pp. 44-55
"Anhand dreier Fallbeispiele aus Indien, Burundi und der Tschechischen Republik kann exemplarisch gezeigt werden, wie sehr das jeweilige Umfeld die Schwierigkeiten diözesaner Presse prägt. Mediensystem, gesellschaftliche und diözesane Rahmenbedingungen scheinen als Einflussgrößen auf die Bistum ... more
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Priming Effects of a Reconciliation Radio Drama on Historical Perspective-Taking in the Aftermath of Mass Violence in Rwanda

Rezarta Bilali, Vollhardt, Johanna Ray
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, volume 49, issue 1 (2013), pp. 144-151
"A field experiment in Rwanda investigated the impact of a radio drama designed to increase perspective-taking with regard to the history of intergroup conflict. An audio-based priming technique was used to assess the causal impact of the radio drama. Rwandan participants (N=842) listened to an audi ... more
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Baseline Community and Decision Maker Media Perception Survey

Ipsos Synovate; Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 104 pp.
"This study has looked at the opinions of ordinary citizens (n=2000) as well as a small sample of decision makers at community level (n=200). Chapters 1 and 2 provide a background sketch and methodology for the survey, followed by a detailed overview of the findings for the general public and decisi ... more
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Sender & Frequenzen 2013: Jahrbuch für weltweiten Runfunk-Empfang

Michael Schmitz, Wolf Siebel
Baden-Baden: Siebel Verlag, 30th ed. (2013), 608 pp.
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Media Use in Somalia 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2013), 2 pp.
"The majority of Somalis (65.6%) access news at least once per day. More than one in four Somalis (27.9%) share news daily or most days. Radio is the most popular means for obtaining news in Somalia, with more than four in five (83.9%) reporting they get news via radio at least once per week. More t ... more
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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2010-2012, Part I: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)
Paris: UNESCO (2013), 181 pp.