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An Examination of Journalistic Codes of Ethics in Anglophone West Africa

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 29-40
"Ethical scandals involving journalists in English-speaking West African countries have been documented to include conflict of interest, freebies, intellectual theft, deception, carelessness, kowtowing to advertisers and politicians, use of dubious evidence, and outright bias. This study explores ho ... more
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Challenging the Glass Ceiling: Study of Women in the Newsroom in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam: Media Council of Tanzania (2019), viii, 31 pp.
"This study has reconfirmed that the challenges facing media women still persist. The glass ceiling is still intact. There are still fewer women in decision making position than man. Women are more likely to be paid less than their male counterparts and upward mobility is very small. Situations wher ... more
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Usages et services d'Internet au Mali: Rôle et positionnement des bibliothèques

Amadou Békaye Sidibé
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 268 pp.
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Assessing the Capacity, Challenges and Sustainability of the Community Radio Sector in Ethiopia

Negash, Tewodros, Per Oesterlund
International Media Support (IMS); danicom (2019), 36 pp.
"International Media Support (IMS) carried out two initial assessment missions in Ethiopia in June and August 2018, and the community radio sector was identified as an area of possible cooperation and support. In order to follow up on this finding, an IMS team consisting of Mr. Tewodros Negash and M ... more
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Genre et migrations féminines à l'ère du numérique

Brice Arsène Mankou (ed.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 154 pp.
"Cette étude porte, à partir du cas camerounais, sur un nouveau phénomène social de migration statutaire, apparu en Afrique, dans le cadre de la mondialisation que nous appelons la cybermigration maritale. Cette modalité contemporaine de mobilité met en relation des personnes exclues ou auto e ... more
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Cultural and Moral Implications of Soli and its Effects on Journalism in Northern Ghana

Amin Alhassan, Muhammed Abdulai
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 41-51
"The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media worke ... more
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L'audiovisuel africain et la capitalisme global

Politique Africaine, issue 153 (2019), pp. 7-159
"Ce dossier se concentre sur ces transformations plus récentes afin d’analyser leur impact sur l’économie et la politique de la production et de la distribution audiovisuelle en Afrique, tout en mettant en question les cadres théoriques et méthodologiques que nous adoptons en tant que cherch ... more
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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
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Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other ... more
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An Investigation into State Suppression of Freedom of Expression in Lesotho

Ntsoareleng Koroloso, Tawanda Mukurunge, Takura Bhila
IJCIRAS, volume 2, issue 2 (2019), pp. 75-82
"The constitution of Lesotho gives assurance to freedom of expression which is supposed to protect the rights of journalists in the day to day dispensation of their duties. The situation on the ground however shows the exact opposite. Recent history can show assassination attempts on practicing jour ... more
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Numérique, espaces et sociétés en Afrique

Dabié Désiré Axel Nassa (ed.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 403 pp.
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How foreign aid fuels African media’s payola problem

Prue Clarke
Project Syndicate, February 12 (2019)
"Today, a typical journalist in Africa is a professional workshop attendee. Non-governmental organisations from every sector “train” journalists in their subject matter, often with content conceived in Western capitals by people with no experience in journalism or in the target countries. Journa ... more
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Journalism and Human Rights Standards in Africa: Reportage of Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Malawian Newspapers

Joe Mlenga
African Human Rights Yearbook (2019), 15 pp.
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Le Niger sur les ondes: La radio, première source d’information

Adamou Moumouni, Toumane Seyni Amadou
Afrobarometer (2019), 7 pp.
"Trois-quarts des Nigériens possèdent un téléphone portable ou y ont accès à travers quelqu’un du foyer qui en possède un. Cet accès est de 55% pour la radio, 21% pour la télé, et 6% pour l’ordinateur. Mais juste 12% des Nigériens ont un téléphone portable avec accès à l’Interne ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2019. Artificial Intelligence: Human Rights, Social Justice and Development
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Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Article 19; Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2019), 87 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is now receiving unprecedented global attention as it finds widespread practical application in multiple spheres of activity. But what are the human rights, social justice and development implications of AI when used in areas such as health, education and social service ... more
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Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary African Cinema: The Politics of Beauty

James S. Williams
London: Bloomsbury Academic (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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Investigating Usage of Social Media Platforms in South Africa

Adheesh Budree, Katja Fietkiewicz, Elmar Lins
African Journal of Information Systems, volume 11, issue 4 (2019), pp. 314-336
"This study investigated the differences in usage of different social media platforms within the South African context, broken down by user characteristics, specifically gender and age, in addition to investigating the correlation between usage of differing social media platforms. This was carried o ... more
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Anti-Corruption Tabloid Journalism in Africa

Brian Chama
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), x, 219 pp.
"Defining tabloid journalism practice as an infotainment genre, the book examines corruption exposure by tabloids in Arabic, Portuguese and Francophone speaking countries across Africa, making it a unique addition to the field. In doing so, it also builds an understanding of the evolution of anti-co ... 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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Netflix geht nach Nollywood

Alessandro Jedlowski
welt-sichten, 28.3. (2019)
"Der US-amerikanische Streamingdienst kauft sich in Afrikas wichtigste Filmindustrie ein. Ob das anspruchsvollen afrikanischen Filmemachern mehr Geld und mehr Zuschauer bringt, ist jedoch fraglich." (Einleitung)