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Trust in the Media

Ipsos (2019), 48 pp.
"People across 27 countries are divided on whether they trust traditional media (magazines and newspapers, TV and radio). These sources are equally trusted as they are distrusted. However, levels of trust in media sources vary greatly at the country level. Trust in traditional media is perceived to ... more
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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
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Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Josephine Appiah-Nyamekye
Cape Town: Afrobarometer (2019), 34 pp.
"Popular support for media freedom continues to decline, dropping to below half (47%) of respondents across 34 countries. More Africans (49%) now say governments should have the right to prevent publications they consider harmful. Twenty-five of 31 countries tracked since 2011 experienced declines i ... more
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty

James S. Williams
London: Bloomsbury (2019), xii, 364 pp.
"Since the beginnings of African cinema, the realm of beauty on screen has been treated with suspicion by directors and critics alike. James S. Williams explores an exciting new generation of African directors, including Abderrahmane Sissako, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Fanta Regina Nacro, Alain Gomis, Ne ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke (eds.)
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 612 pp.
"This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual ch ... more
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Media and the Rights of the Child in Africa

Olusola Oyero (ed.)
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La communication organisationelle en reseau: éléments structurels et stratégiques pour une pastorale de la communication au Burundi

Dieudonné Niyibizi
Rome: Université Pontificale Salesienne, Faculté des Sciences de la Communication Sociale, Thèse de Doctorat (2019), iii, 336 pp.
"Ce travail se propose un double objectif d’étudier la communication dans les organisations en réseau et identifier un modèle structurel et stratégique applicable à la pastorale communicationnelle au Burundi. Il s’agit de tenter de proposer des aspects pastoraux réticulaires sur base d’u ... more
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Despots and Disruptions: Five Dimensions of Internet Shutdowns in Africa

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 12 pp.
"The more undemocratic the system of government, the more likely it is that the Internet will be shut down. To prove this, the authors refer to the annual Democracy Index of the British consulting firm Economist Intelligence Unit of the news magazine of the same name. According to the index, 17 of t ... more
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Journalistic Griots: The Marginalization of Indigenous Language News and Oral Epistemologies in Ghana

Wunpini Fatimata Mohammed
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 235-252
"This study examines news production and newsroom culture in radio stations in Ghana’s Northern Region. It explores the dynamics of news production and delivery in indigenous language newsrooms. Through in-depth interviews with eight indigenous language news presenters and journalists, the study c ... more
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Community Media and Media Policy Reform in Anglophone Sub-Saharan Africa

Patrick E. Okon
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
Chris Atton (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 210-221
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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age

Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-213
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The Economic Contribution of Copyright-Based Industries in Botswana

Patrick Malope et al.
Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); Botswana Institute for Development Policy Analysis (BIDPA) (2019), vi, 64 pp.
"The results of the study indicate that copyright industries make a significant contribution to the national economy of Botswana. In 2016, these industries contributed 5.46 per cent to value added and 2.66 per cent to the total labor force; meanwhile, in foreign trade they contributed 1.28 per cent ... more
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Continuity in Change: A History of Radio for National Development

Gilbert K. M. Tietaah, Margaret I. Amoakohene, Marquita S. Smith
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 17, issue 2 (2019), pp. 217-234
"In this article, we assert and demonstrate a particular and enduring adaptability of radio in tandem with observable temporal shifts in development communication theory and practice in Africa. Specifically, we use the historical research method to explore and explain the ideological discourses, pol ... more
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Unpacking Social Media Use in Stabilization Efforts

Dianna E. Almanza, Victor Odundo Owuar
One Earth Future (2019), 2 pp.
"Social media use has provided access to entertainment, opportunities for a richer social life, and the ability to communicate with many others in a manner that was not possible just a few decades ago. In SSA, the convergence of homegrown ideas and collaboration with the international community has ... more
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Infographics, New Media and Media Consumption Habits in Nigeria

Chineme Carl Okafor
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 52 pp.
"This study engages in a comparative analysis of the history, importance, and benefits of infographics, in general, and in the media, in particular in Nigeria. It looks at the history of the Nigerian press, as well as the scale of use of infographics and new media tools in communicating business sto ... more
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FemmePowermentAfrique: Introducing the Scope and Design of the Project

Emma Heywood
Sheffield, UK: University of Sheffield (2019), 16 pp.
"This working paper defines the scope of the FemmePowermentAfrique project, its significance, its research approach and its intended beneficiaries. This project originated in an impact assessment of radio on women’s rights and empowerment in Niger, yet has broadened to incorporate a series of rela ... more
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Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit
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Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2019), 52 pp.
"Section One (Elections 101) deals with the aspects of voter education and election regulations for both citizens and the media. Section Two (Your Community Radio Station at Election Time) suggests ways to reflect local issues in election coverage and how to make the most of the resources you’ve g ... more
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The Entertaining Way to Behavioral Change: Fighting HIV with MTV

Abhijit Banerjee, Eliana La Ferrara, Victor Orozco-Olvera
Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2019), 45 pp.
"This paper tests the effectiveness of an entertainment education television series, MTV Shuga, aimed at providing information and changing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV/AIDS. Using a simple model, the paper shows that “edutainment” can work through an individual or a social channel. Th ... more
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What is the Relationship Between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's "Radio Machete"

Scott Straus
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 97-130
"The evidence amounts to a persuasive refutation of the commonly held beliefs that radio had widespread, direct effects and that hate radio was the primary driver of the genocide and participation in it. That said, the evidence suggests radio had some marginal and conditional effects. RTLM broadcast ... more
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Survie d'une radio communautaire sénégalaise: Le cas de Manoore FM à Dakar

Aude Jimenez
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 169 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose une incursion au coeur d’une radio communautaire silencieuse, mais résiliente. Mise en place par une association de femmes au début des années 2000, la station Manoore FM a subi plusieurs pannes au cours de la décennie 2010, jusqu’à cesser d’émettre en 2015. Pourtant ... more
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Zooming in on Media and Information Literacy: A Survey-Based Typology of Young Media Users
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Dennis Reineck, Roland Schürhoff, Jan Lublinski
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 19 pp.
"While global youth is often referred to as a fairly homogeneous generation of digital natives, data drawn from a survey in Jordan, Moldova, and Uganda suggests that this is not the case. Based on an instrument for measuring digital and news literacy, this paper presents a typology of five personae: ... more