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Can Tanzania’s News Media Maintain Popular Support for Watchdog Role?

Rose Aiko
Afrobarometer (2015), 13 pp.
"Tanzanians express near-unanimous satisfaction with the degree of freedom of expression in the country: 96% of respondents in 2014 say they feel somewhat or completely free to say what they think. Two-thirds (65%) say the media should scrutinize the government and report on corruption and mistakes. ... more
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Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation and Subversion

Julia Gallagher (ed.)
Manchester: Manchester University Press (2015), xv, 203 pp.
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"Journalism is Not a Crime": Violations of Media Freedom in Ethiopia

Felix Horne
Human Rights Watch (2015), 73 pp.
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Mechachal: A Preliminary Assessment of Online Debates in Ethiopia. Report One

Iginio Gagliardone et al.
University of Oxford, Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) (2015), 35 pp.
"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness ... more
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey
GSMA; Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.
"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more
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Can Radio Drama Improve Child Health and Nutrition in Somalia?

Shiri Landman, Angela Githitho Muriithi
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 11 pp.
"1. Radio, particularly BBC Somali, is an effective medium for reaching people in remote areas of Somalia who are typically hard to reach, including the poorest [...] 2. Drama has been shown to have a particularly powerful role in encouraging audiences to absorb new and relevant information. Tragic ... more
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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405
"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more
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Broadcasting Governance and Development in ‘Museveni's Uganda’

Emily Comfort Maracthoa
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 5-24
"How has broadcasting governance affected broadcast media development in Uganda during the Museveni years? The main approach was content analysis of relevant legislation and policies, and key informant interviews with major stakeholders. The key finding is that in the period under examination, Ugand ... more
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Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur

Joachim J. Savelsberg
Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.
"How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the ... more
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From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide ... more
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TMF 2015-2018 Strategy: Strengthening Media for Accountability

Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2015), 51 pp.
"By October 2015, the TMF project will have transitioned from being a donor initiative to a new legal entity. Since 2008, the TMF project has been using grants as a way to increase quality content in as well as to strengthen the Tanzanian media landscape. This new strategic plan, which outlines the ... more
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Digital Cleansing? A Look Into State-Sponsored Policing of Ethiopian Networked Communities

Téwodros W. Workneh
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 102-124
"Drawing from hegemonic notions of development statism, this article looks at the extent to which digital platforms have become viable alternatives to traditional electronic and print media in Ethiopia. I argue that, despite its potential to promote freedom of speech, the Ethiopian online sphere is ... more
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Uchaguzi: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of ICTs, Statebuilding, and Peacebuilding in Kenya

Warigia Bowman, Bob Bell, Wambui Ngugi, Wainaina Mungai, Grace Githaiga, Paola Cavallari
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 ... more
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A Community of Communities? Emerging Dynamics in the Community Media Paradigm

Christopher Ali
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23
"Recent years have seen numerous attempts by community broadcasters around the world to reinvent their practices in an effort to remain relevant and financially sustainable in the digital age. One proposed initiative is to have community programming distributed via satellite, either in the form of a ... more
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Free Speech and Censorship Around the Globe
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Péter Molnár (ed.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2015), x, 552 pp.
"This is a book about free speech narratives. Stories about how imagination and rational thinking in wildly different cultures capture, imagine, and conceptualize what freedom of speech means. 1989 and 2011 are only two recent (in historic perspective) turning points when freedom of speech and freed ... more
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The Role of Media in War and Peace in South Sudan

Jok Madut Jok
Juba: Sudd Institute (2015), 13 pp.
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more
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National Communication Strategy for Malaria Control in Uganda

Kampala: Ministry of Health (2015), 40 pp.
"This Uganda national communication strategy for malaria prevention and control has been developed to facilitate the implementation of the Uganda Malaria Reduction Strategy (UMRS) 2014-2020. The strategy will offer a framework where every stakeholder shall take recommended actions to fund, prevent, ... more
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Labeling Albinism: Language and Discourse Surrounding People with Albinism in Tanzania

Giorgio Brocco
Disability & Society, volume 30, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1143-1157
"This article is based on a qualitative study that set out to analyze the labels and terms attached to 28 people affected by albinism in villages in Kilolo district, Tanzania. Even though national and international attention to killings of people with albinism has attempted to improve general knowle ... more