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Communication, community engagement and accountability in Sudan’s regional response: Outcomes of the high-level meeting to discuss elevating collective CCEA in the regional Sudan conflict response

CDAC Network (2023), 5 pp.
"Despite the strides made towards strengthening two-way communication and dialogue in the regional response to the Sudan crisis, there remain critical gaps inhibiting the effectiveness of collective efforts. The Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and the Regional Refugee Response Plan should allocate ... more
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Fairwork Tanzania Ratings 2023: Towards Improving Platform Work in Tanzania

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
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YouTube vlogging and dissidence in Zimbabwe: Opportunities from authoritarian media policies

Wishes Tendayi Mututwa, Gift Gwindingwe
Journal of Alternative and Community Media, volume 7, issue 2 (2023), pp. 199-214
"This article explores the use of YouTube in the increasing practice of vlogging in Zimbabwe. Vlogging counters authoritarian media policies that restrict the entry of new media players and democratic participation in existing traditional media. This dearth of public debate on traditional media has ... more
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa

Farooq A. Kperogi (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric ... more
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Summary Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of Road Safety

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2023), 15 pp.
"This is a summarised report of a study on Ugandan news media coverage of road safety, focusing on the country’s three main daily newspapers, three television stations and two online platforms. The study explored the attention and the nature of coverage these newspapers, television stations and on ... more
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Climate Change Journalism in South Africa: Noticeable Improvements, Less Than Adequate

Enoch Sithole
Fojo Media Institute (2023), 58 pp.
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Reimagining the Role of Media in Mozambique in the Era of Terrorism and Natural Disasters

International Media Support (IMS) (2023), 9 pp.
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Kenya Media Landscape Report

Communications Authority of Kenya (2023), 18 pp.
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After Access 2022: Internet Usage Trends in Uganda

Andrew Partridge
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2023), 9 pp.
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Malawi: Inclusive Digital Economy Report

Samantha Malambo, Tobias Schilling, Iris Kissiti, Naomi de Groot
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2023), 21 pp.
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Enslaved. Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya

Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, Klara Smits, Morgane Wirtz (eds.)
Bamenda: Langaa (2023), xxix, 791 pp.
"Eritrean refugees are being trafficked and enslaved in Libya, where they are tortured to force relatives to pay a ransom for their release. Labelled with a digital code, they are moved along in the possession of the traffickers through a series of ‘black holes’, in which their access to digital ... more
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Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda

Karen McIntyre, Meghan Sobel Cohen, Brian Semujju, Kioko Ireri, Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 2 (2023), pp. 116-133
"Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contributes to the body of scholarship examining misinformation literacy beyond the Western world. Data came fr ... more
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Media Ownership in Africa in the Digital Age: Challenges, Continuity and Change

Winston Mano, Loubna El Mkaouar (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xiv, 295 pp.
"Who owns the media and communications in Africa today and with what implications? The book elegantly answers this urgent question by unpacking multiple dimensions of media ownership through rare and authoritative perspectives, including both historical and contemporary digital developments. It trac ... more
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Histories of Children's Television Around the World
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Yuval Gozansky (ed.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2023), viii, 288 pp.
"This edited book based on a collective effort of researchers and professionals dedicated to compile the stories of children's television around the world. With 12 national chapters, the book includes historical accounts of children's television from the following countries: Australia, Brazil, Canad ... more
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Examining Terrorism, Extremism and Radicalization Through a Peace Communication Perspective

Flora Khoo (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2023), 322 pp.
"This edited book expands the applicability of peace journalism research beyond war to cover terrorism and radicalization, an issue that has not yet been touched by peace journalism scholars." (Publisher description)
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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign

Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, Sophie Sarrassat, David Khanyile, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle
Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817
"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus ... more
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Influence of New Media on Evangelization: A Case of Paulines Book and Media Centres in Nairobi, Kenya

Roselyne Wambani Wafula
Leicester: University of Leicester, Master Thesis (2023), x, 90 pp.
"[...] Using a qualitative approach and a descriptive research design, data was gathered from Sisters and lay collaborators at three Pauline Centres in Nairobi through questionnaires, interviews, and document analysis. The main findings show that even though new media platforms like WhatsApp and Fac ... more
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Community Radio Acceptance in Rural Africa: The Nexus of Language and Cultural Affinity

K. Onyenankeya, A Salawu
Information Development, volume 39, issue 3 (2023), pp. 567-580
"Community radio has gained traction with the grassroots in South Africa, especially subaltern groups excluded from the public sphere during the colonial and apartheid years. This paper argues that rural audience acceptance of and participation in community radio is closely associated with indigenou ... more
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The Routledge Handbook of Media Education Futures Post-Pandemic

Yonty Friesem, Usha Raman, Igor Kanižaj, Grace Y. Choi (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxvi, 531 pp.
"Combining an innovative mix of traditional chapters, autoethnography, case studies, and dialogue within an intercultural framework, the handbook focuses on the future of media education and provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and affordances of media education as we move forward. Topi ... more
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Effect of Short, Animated Video Storytelling on Maternal Knowledge and Satisfaction in the Perinatal Period in South Africa: Randomized Controlled Trial

Maya Adam, Zwannda Kwinda, Mithilesh Dronavalli et al.
Journal of Medical Internet Research, volume 25, issue e47266 (2023), 13 pp.
"Innovative mobile health (mHealth) interventions can improve maternal knowledge, thereby supporting national efforts to reduce preventable maternal and child mortality in South Africa. Studies have documented a potential role for mobile video content to support perinatal health messaging, enhance m ... more