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Wie Strukturen Medienfreiheit einschränken: Eine Untersuchung zur Medienfreiheit in Uganda während der Präsidentschafts- und Parlamentswahlen am 18.2.2016
München: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Master Thesis (2016), 116 pp.
"Ugandische Eliten erwarten von Journalisten zu Wahlzeiten eine positive Berichterstattung. Kritik und Hinterfragung von Standpunkten werden nicht gerne gesehen. Die übermächtigen Ressourcen der Herrschenden werden dazu eingesetzt, diese Erwartungen zu erfüllen. Dementsprechend können Journalist
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Interactive Radio Program Report: An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2016), 23 pp.
"Here we discuss a unique and innovative radio-based approach to improving mental health literacy and creating a demand for mental health services—part of a larger project called 'An Integrated Approach to Addressing the Issue of Youth Depression in Malawi and Tanzania'. Grounded in theories of so
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The Power of Publics: Competing Imaginaries of the Radio Audience in Kenya and Zambia
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 23 pp.
"With the liberalisation of the airwaves and the rising use of mobile phones since the 2000s, call- and text-in shows have become popular and lively features on broadcast media in Eastern Africa. Amidst expanding possibilities for listeners to speak and contribute to live radio broadcasts, new ways
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ); Wiley (2015), 256 pp.
Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas
Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.
"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man
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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production
Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2015), pp. 275-288
"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa-funded by the Pulitzer Center on C
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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81
"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle
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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives
Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.
"Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities.
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Development Discourse in Kenyan Vernacular Radio: A Case Study of Kass FM
Research on Humanities and Social Siences, volume 5, issue 6 (2015), pp. 63-72
"Language is a major tool for governance and dissemination of information. Citizens need to participate effectively in discourse pertaining to their private and public interests and enterprises in order to understand matters of development and governance. The proliferation of vernacular radio statio
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Malakal: Nile FM: Baseline Assessment
Internews (2015), 9 pp.
"In February 2015, Internews established Nile FM, a community radio station in Malakal County, Upper Nile state [South Sudan]. As part of Internews' Humanitarian Information Service (HIS) that brings information to displaced and vulnerable populations throughout the country, Nile FM responds to the
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Interim Assessment of Media Development in South Sudan
Paris: UNESCO (2015), xii, 60 pp.
From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?
In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media
Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166
"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term
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Kenya Decides: Kiswahili, Social Media and Politics in Kenya’s 2013 General Elections
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 165-183
"In contrast to most recent studies focusing on how ICT and new media were catalysts for the 2007/08 post-election violence, this article will shed light on the role of Kiswahili and social media in the process of fostering participation in the 2013 general election campaigns. It takes a closer look
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Uchaguzi: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Kenya
Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) (2015), 43 pp.
"This study has found that Uchaguzi represents a blended model incorporating both crowd-seeding (placing monitors on the ground to collect data) and crowd-sourcing (collecting information from the public). The success of crowd-seeding is a function of Uchaguzi’s partnerships with local and interna
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Trauma and Public Memory
Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.
"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle
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"We analyzed more than 13,000 statements during the project. This report primarily builds on the statements that were collected between 24 February and 24 June 2015, three months before and one month after the parliamentary elections that took place in Ethiopia on 24 May 2015.
FINDING 1: Hate and d
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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation
London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.
"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for
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Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2015), 29 slides
"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo
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Customary Law and Media Regulation in Conflict and Post-Conflict States
"In the process of drafting new media laws for states emerging from violent confl ict, or transitioning towards more democratic governments, the role of customary law is often overlooked. While “best practices” or international standards draw on widely accepted norms of international human right
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