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Mapping Digital Rights and Online Freedom of Expression in East, West and Southern Africa

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2018), 100 pp.
"This report maps the current landscape in respect of digital rights and online freedom of expression in East, West and Southern Africa. It looks at the trends regarding law and policy developments, as well as recent litigation, within these regions. The report focuses on 18 countries – 6 per regi ... more
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Journalisme pour la paix et résolution de conflit dans les médias, tome 1 = Peace journalism and conflict resolution in the media = Periodismo de paz y resolución de conflictos en medios

Andi Faisal Bakti, Pierre Gigùere, Yves Théorêt (eds.)
Paris: Les Editions de l'Immatériel; ORBICOM (2018), 311 pp.
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Transnationalisierte Öffentlichkeit und Klimapolitik: Akteursensembles in der Medienberichterstattung von 15 Ländern

Mike S. Schäfer, Senja Post, Rafel Schwab, Katharina Kleinen-von Königslöw
Publizistik, volume 63, issue 2 (2018), pp. 207-244
"Die kommunikationswissenschaftliche Öffentlichkeitsforschung hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren verstärkt mit transnationalisierten Formen von Öffentlichkeit beschäftigt. Allerdings gehen nur wenige empirische Arbeiten über die (mögliche) Entstehung einer europäischen Öffentlichkeit hinaus. ... more
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Dangerous Disinformation

D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue May (2018), pp. 23-38
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Swasiland: Monarchie ohne Menschenrechte

Simone Knapp, Helge Neuschwander-Lutz (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW); Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika (KASA) (2018), 101 pp.
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African Cinema on Demand? The Politics of Online Distribution and the Case of the African Film Library

Alexander Fisher
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 3 (2018), pp. 239-250
"This article considers the impact of online distribution on the long-term availability and preservation of African cinema. It examines the case of Electronic Media Network’s (M-Net) African Film Library (AFL), a video-on-demand (VOD) library of classic African films that was launched in 2012, but ... more
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Uganda: Press Freedom Attacked by State Bodies

Eva Namusoke
Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, volume 107, issue 2 (2018), pp. 221-223
"On 16 October 2017, the editors of two popular Ugandan newspapers—the Daily Monitor and Red Pepper—were summoned to the Criminal Investigations Directorate in Kampala following the publication of stories revealing the allocation of a Ugandan Shillings 715 m (almost £150,000) budget for a plann ... more
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State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2018. Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Zimbabwe: Challenges and Trends

Kampala: CIPESA (2018), 28 pp.
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Ugandan Women Online: A Quantitative Survey on Digital Literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.
"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal ... more
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Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders; Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more
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African Youth Languages: New Media, Performing Arts and Sociolinguistic Development

Ellen Hurst-Harosh, Fridah Kanana Erastus (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xv, 255 pp.
"This book showcases current research on language in new media, the performing arts and music in Africa, emphasising the role that youth play in language change and development. The authors demonstrate how the efforts of young people to throw off old colonial languages and create new local ones has ... more
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The Little Data Book on Information and Communication Technology 2018

Washington, DC; Geneva: World Bank; ITU (2018), vi, 240 pp.
"In 2016, there were more than 7.3 billion mobile-cellular subscriptions worldwide. Globally, 3.5 billion people were using the Internet, of which 2.5 billion were from developing countries. Mobile-broadband subscriptions have risen constantly to reach 3.6 billion, while the number of fixed-broadban ... more
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Madagascar 2018: Mass media, communication et internet

Institut National de la Statistique (INSTAT) (2018), 6 pp.
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Tiangao or Tianxia? The Ambiguities of CCTV's English-Language News for Africa

Vivien Marsh
In: China's Media Go Global
Daya Kishan Thussu, Hugo de Burgh, Anbin Shi (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), pp. 103-121
"Sustained media interest in African countries, funded from deep pockets in Beijing, may well attract admirers if the coverage is positive or uncritical. The forward-looking narrative promoted by 'constructive' or 'positive' reporting may help developing nations by not crushing them under too much e ... more
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Women in News Somalia

Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2018), 5 pp.
"Women in News Somalia aims to increase women’s leadership and voices in the media. It does so by equipping women journalists and editors with the skills, strategies, and support networks to take on greater leadership positions within their media. Through a two-year programme (2015-2017) twelve wo ... more
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Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo, Beschara Karam (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp.
"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza ... more
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Community Radio in Rural Development in Northeastern Ghana: Experiences of Radio Gaakii in the Saboba District

Amadu Mohammed Faisal, Amin Alhassan
International Research Journal of Social Sciences, volume 7, issue 5 (2018), pp. 1-12
"This research paper draws on the theory of development communication to explore the relationship between community radio broadcast and community development in Northern Ghana. It traces the history of development communication practice in Ghana and its application in Ghana's rural development effor ... more
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Information Needs Assessment: Gao, Mali

Lucas Destrijckes et al.
Washington, DC et al.: Internews (2018), 63 pp.
"This study analyses if people on the move in the northeastern region of Mali, more specifically in the city of Gao, have accurate information at their disposal. It maps information needs and habits of migrant communities in Gao to better understand how these individuals and communities receive info ... more
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Evaluation of Media Support in Somalia 2014–2017

Nora Stenius
Helsinki: Vikes Finnish Foundation for Media and Development (2018), 26 pp.
"The main partners of the project have been Somali National Television (SNTV), Somali Ministry of Information and Public Awareness, and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). After expanding the geographical coverage of the project in 2015, partnerships were also established with Somalila ... more
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Mediatized China-Africa Relations: How Media Discourses Negotiate the Shifting of Global Order

Shubo Li
Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xv, 218 pp.
"This cutting edge book explores the role of the media in the highly disputed area of China-Africa relations, notably how various aspects of the issue have been portrayed, negotiated and contested in media and academic discourses. As Africa's biggest trading partner and creditor, China explores Afri ... more