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South Sudan Community Radio Audience Feedback Study 2012-2013: A Qualitative Analysis of the Opinions and Information Needs of Listeners in Leer, Malaulkon, Turalei and Nasir

Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 30 pp.
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ICTs and Radio in Africa: How the Uptake of ICT Has Influenced the Newsroom Culture Among Community Radio Journalists

Goretti Linda Nassanga, Linje Manyozo, Claudia Lopes
Telematics and Informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266
"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t ... more
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TMF Success Stories

Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 13 pp.
"TMF wants to add fire to the demand of citizens for accountability – through a strong media that produces a large variety of high-quality stories about things that matter in the lives of Tanzanians. Therefore, TMF is interested in stories from grantees about how their media production changed som ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)
Wiley; Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Inge Brinkman, Francis Nyamnjoh (eds.)
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more
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Comparative Perspectives on Media Law Making in Somalia

Oxford: University of Oxford, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Progamme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (2013), 45 pp.
"The Report builds upon two main directives: on the one hand, it tries to bring together the best practices at the international and comparative level, in an attempt to offer guidance on which policy and regulatory toolkits have already proved successful in achieving longterm goals of economic effic ... more
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Government Secrecy in an Information Age: 2013 Report on Open & Secretive Public Institutions in Southern Africa

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 130 pp.
"This study carried out between May and June 2013, seeks to establish levels of transparency in public institution in Southern Africa. The study in currently in its fourth year, and findings highlight the difficulties faced by Southern African when trying to seek, access and receive information from ... more
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REDD+ Politics in the Media: A Case Study from Tanzania

Demetrius Kweka
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2013), vii, 20 pp.
"The report concluded there was low climate change coverage in Tanzania from 2005 to 2008, but that coverage increased just after 2009; this was mainly due to international negotiations and agreements around the world that played a major role in shaping the REDD+ discourse, including in Tanzania. Mo ... more
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Faces of Peace Radio: Promoting Peace Through Radio

Kussia Bekele, Simone Notz
GIZ Ethiopia, Civil Peace Service Program (2013), 54 pp.
"The Peace Radio project was conceived in 2009 by the Resource Center for Civil Society Groups Association (RCCSGA) and Council of Nationalities (CoN) of SNNPRS (Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State). The Civil Peace Service-Program (CPS) of GIZ is supporting the project financi ... more
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Freedom of Expression in Kenya: Exploring Public Use of Old and New Media

Winnie V. Mitullah
Afrobarometer (2012), 12 pp.
"Freedom of expression in Kenya has witnessed several phases of development, ranging from the autocratic to a proactive new media regime. This transformation has been enabled by governance reforms, including repeals and amendment of laws, as well as the promulgation of a new Constitution in 2010. Wi ... more
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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya

Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, Klara Debeljak
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 245-275
"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2012: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Sarah Cook, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2012), 657 pp.
"This report is the third in a series of comprehensive studies of internet freedom around the globe and covers developments in 47 countries that occurred between January 2011 and May 2012. Over 50 researchers, nearly all based in the countries they analyzed, contributed to the project by researching ... more
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Arab Media Outlook 2011-2015: Arab Media Exposure and Transition. Forecasts and Analysis of Traditional and Digital Media in the Arab World

Dubai: Dubai Press Club, 4th ed. (2012), 247 pp.
"The Arab Media Outlook is the most comprehensive publication on the Arab Media Industry and represents one of the key knowledge development initiatives of the Dubai Press Club. The report serves as a reference point of the media industry in the region highlighting media trends across 17 markets and ... more
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Country Case Study: Uganda. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Richard M. Kavuma
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 24 pp.
Examining Uganda’s increasingly fractured media landscape, this report finds that the media is vulnerable to government intimidation and self-censorship.
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Survey on the Publishing Sector in Selected Sub-Saharan Countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda

Bernadette Böcker
Johannesburg: Goethe-Institut; Frankfurt Book Fair (2012), 81 pp.
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more
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Promoting Awareness of Women’s Human Rights Through Community Radio Listening and Media in Kenya: Evaluation Report

United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2012), 17 pp.
"The project [...] was implemented in Kenya by the Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) from September 2008 to January 2011 [...] The project’s overarching goal is to promote women’s human rights by raising awareness in six communities in Kenya and strengthening social action using commun ... more
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Chad and the Darfur Refugee Crisis: Internews Humanitarian Information Service's Program in Chad 2005-2012

Celeste Hicks, Meredith Kohut
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 56 pp.
"Starting in 2005, Internews built three humanitarian radio stations in Eastern Chad to help those fleeing the violence in Darfur to receive the critical news and information they needed to survive. Seven years after the first station went on air, Internews has left eastern Chad as funding to intern ... more
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets: Kenya

Paris; Nairobi: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2012), 41 pp.
"Kenya has been the scene of sweeping technological innovations, but these have often benefited solely affluent urban and foreign markets. Poorly developed infrastructure and program design have delayed benefits for the broader Kenyan public. In addition, Kenya’s innovations have proven difficult ... more
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Community Radio in East Africa: For or by the Community?

Kennedy Javuru
In: Community Radio in the Twenty-First Century
Janey Gordon (ed.)
Oxford; Bern; Berlin et al.: Peter Lang (2012), pp. 303-320
"The chapter focuses on three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Radio broadcasting in these countries is typically divided into two categories: public and private. Although proponents of community radio are pushing for the sector to be recognised as an independent entity, community ... more