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Analysis of Ethiopia’s Hate Speech and Disinformation Prevention and Suppression Proclamation No.1185/2020

Kampala: CIPESA (2020), 4 pp.
"Although the Proclamation has good intentions of curbing hate speech in Ethiopia, it fundamentally restricts freedom of expression online and the right to information. Further, the proclamation has a chilling effect on online and offline rights, which could lead to self-censorship. For instance, jo ... more
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Alternate Realities, Alternate Internets: African Feminist Research for a Feminist Internet

Neema Iyer, Bonnita Nyamwire, Sandra Nabulega
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), 50 pp.
"For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalization, digital tools enable groups that are marginalized across the intersections of gender, race, sex, class, religion, ability and nationality to pr ... more
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State of Internet Freedom in Ethiopia 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019

Ashnah Kalemera, Victor Kapiyo, Paul Kimumwe et al.
Kampala: CIPESA (2020), III, 18 pp.
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A Case of Double Standards? Audience Attitudes to Professional Norms on Local and English Language Radio News Programmes in Ghana

Audrey Gadzekpo, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-22
"This article explores the reception practices of multi-lingual audiences in Ghana, focusing on their views on the different norms and approaches of local language and English language radio newscasts. Using data from a convenience sample of 1000 radio listeners in five Ghanaian cosmopolitan cities ... more
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Prix Regional Journalisme Sensible au Genre. Edition 2020

Dakar: Panos West Africa (2020), 20 pp.
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"Big changes start small": Geschichten von Menschen, die etwas bewegen. Ein Wirkungsbericht

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2020), 97 pp.
"Die DW Akademie sammelt und dokumentiert die Wirkungen ihrer Projekte auf verschiedenen Ebenen, mit verschiedenen Methoden. Dazu zählen zunächst drei Wege, die heute Standard in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sind: erstens angewandte Studien, die neues Wissen über Wirkungen ermöglichen, zweiten ... more
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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The Missing Perspectives of Women in COVID-19 News: A Special Report on Women’s Under-Representation in News Media
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Luba Kassova
Gates Foundation (2020), 101 pp.
"This report was commissioned by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to examine women’s representation in COVID-19/coronavirus newsgathering and news coverage in India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US. It is rooted in a computational news content analysis of 11,913 publications an ... more
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Digital Inclusion Across the Globe: What is Being Done to Tackle Digital Inequities?

Bianca C. Reisdorf, Colin Rhinesmith (eds.)
Social Inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 132-259
"There is a large body of research that has examined digital inequities, inequalities, and divides—i.e., those countries, communities, and individuals digitally left behind or disadvantaged. Whereas we know quite a lot about what is lacking and for whom, there is less focus on what works to allevi ... more
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ICT Aid Flows from China to African Countries: A Communication Network Perspective

Rong Wang, François Bar, Yu Hong
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25
"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014 ... more
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IPA Global Report on Copyright & Publishing

Vera Castanheira, Natalie Joy Marrer (eds.)
International Publishers Association (IPA) (2020), 257 pp.
"The first edition of the IPA Global Report on Copyright & Publishing aims to provide an overview of aspects of copyright law and policy in the 69 countries where IPA’s members are established, based on the issues that are most relevant to the publishing industry. The objective of this report is t ... more
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Essentials of the Right to Information Law (989): Ghana. A Guide Book

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), ii, 28 pp.
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Research Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Public Affairs, May-September 2020

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2020), 49 pp.
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Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research

Matthew L. Smith, Ruhiya Kristine Seward (eds.)
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp.
"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene ... more
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Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change
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Jan Servaes (ed.)
Singapore: Springer (2020), 2 vols.
"The book contains 85 chapters written by persons who have been on those frontlines of communication and development [...] A variety of case studies appear in the book. For example, Kriss Barker and Fatou Jah – in a chapter titled “Entertainment-Education in Radio: Three Case Studies from Africa ... more
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Assessing the Effectiveness of Online Facebook Campaigns Targeting Potential Irregular Migrants: A Pilot Study in Three West African Countries

Esther Haarman, Jasper Tjaden, Gustavo López
Geneva: International Organization for Migration (IOM) (2020), 41 pp.
"Studies have shown that many irregular migrants embark on journeys without accurate or complete information about migration. In response, IOM and other organizations run information campaigns intended to inform potential migrants of the dangers associated with irregular migration and to facilitate ... more
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Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones

Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Margee Ensign
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxvi, 219 pp.
"This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile technologies to improve educational outcomes for over 20,000 displaced and out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs typically interact with a func ... more
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Intervention or Collaboration? Redesigning Information and Communication Technologies for Development
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Anna Bon
Amsterdam: Pangea (2020), 359 pp.
"This thesis describes the search for and the design of a field-based approach to ICT4D. Ten years of field and action research in Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana have led to a practical approach that guides design and development of information systems. It fosters knowledge exchange between people fr ... more
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Chilling or cosy effects? Zimbabwean journalists’ experiences and the struggle for definition of self-censorship

Nhamo Anthony Mhiripiri
In: Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Ingrid Fadnes, Anna Grøndahl Larsen, Roy Krøvel (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), pp. 47-64
"The definition of censorship denotes direct or overt restriction on free expression or freedom of the media. The popular understanding of self-censorship involves a person’s involuntary self-silencing. A journalist’s wilful, personal, intentional self-censorship, at times motivated by selfish m ... more
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Fake News, the Media & COVID-19 in West Africa

East Legon: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 11 pp.
"This report briefly examines the phenomenon of fake news in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Anglophone West Africa. It specifically addresses the following areas: fake news trends; how the phenomenon has impacted the work of the media and the fight against the pandemic; measures taken so fa ... more