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Mediated Sociability: Audience Participation and Convened Citizen Engagement in Interactive Broadcast Shows in Africa

Sharath Srinivasan, Claudia Abreu Lopes
International Journal of Communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006
"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol ... more
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Using Drama to Encourage Non-Violent Conflict Resolution in South Sudan

London: BBC Media Action (2020), 2 pp.
"Mixed methods research found that including entertaining and relatable characters and storylines in the Life in Lulu radio drama engaged listeners and helped them to apply lessons from the programme to resolve conflicts peacefully in their own households and communities." (Page 1)
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Peace Journalism in East Africa: A Manual for Media Practitioners

Fredrick Ogenga (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2020), vi, 101 pp.
"This publication is the outcome of the “East Africa Regional Peace Journalism Training Workshop” for journalists covering conflict and peacebuilding in East Africa. Organized by Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace, and Security (CMDPS) in partnership with the African Peacebu ... more
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Is Media Assistance Obsolete? A Practice-Based Perspective on the Potential for Digital Technologies to Achieve Media Development Goals in Sub-Saharan Africa

Daire Higgins
Dublin: Technological University Dublin, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 417 pp.
"This thesis examines the impact on the Media Assistance sector of the arrival of digital technologies into the ‘information ecosystems’ in which it operates. Whereas historically in Media Assistance, broadcast media and the press have been the preferred (or available) media for achieving develo ... more
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Yearbook on Media Quality in Tanzania: 2019 Report

Abdallah Katunzi, Christoph Spurk
Dar es Salaam: University of Dar es Salaam, School of Journalism and Mass Communication (2019), 45 pp.
"The overall quality of media reporting in Tanzania in 2019 has gone down. Compared to 2018, the Media Quality Index for all media dropped from 28% to 26.8%. Among media types, the print media’s performance dropped most. Many aspects illustrate the trend. It is clear that media houses now rely on ... more
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Public participation and social accountability in Kenyan counties: A pilot study using interactive radio in Siaya

Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen, Khadija Mohammed, Edgar Otieno
Nairobi; Cambridge: Africa's Voices Foundation; Urban Institute (2019), 34 pp.
"[...] this pilot study in Siaya County sought to assess what makes for more effective public participation in Kenya. In contributing to a timely policy concern about how to best meet the imperatives/aspirations of devolution, it sought also to address the limited empirical evidence in scholarship a ... more
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Mobile Africa: Human Trafficking and the Digital Divide

Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Mawere, M. Stokmans, K. A. Gebre-Egziabher (eds.)
Bamenda: Langaa (2019), xviii, 739 pp.
"What happens at the nexus of the digital divide and human trafficking? This book examines the impact of the introduction of new digital information and communication technology (ICT) – as well as lack of access to digital connectivity – on human trafficking. The different studies presented in t ... more
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The Price We Pay: Targeted for Dissent by the Tanzanian State

London: Amnesty International (2019), 36 pp.
"Since President John Magufuli took office in November 2015, the state has applied a raft of repressive laws restricting the rights of opposition politicians, human rights defenders, activists, researchers, journalists, bloggers and other online users. Cumulatively, the application of these laws has ... more
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The Role of Community Radios in Information Dissemination to Rural Women in South Africa

Madeleine C. Fombad, Glenrose Veli Jiyane
Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, volume 51, issue 1 (2019), pp. 47-58
"This article adopts the case study research approach through the use of document analysis and interviews to investigate the role of two community radio stations in selected areas of the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa with regard to rural development and the dissemination of information to w ... more
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Elections 2019: Community Radio Toolkit
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Cape Town: Children’s Radio Foundation (CRF) (2019), 52 pp.
"Section One (Elections 101) deals with the aspects of voter education and election regulations for both citizens and the media. Section Two (Your Community Radio Station at Election Time) suggests ways to reflect local issues in election coverage and how to make the most of the resources you’ve g ... more
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Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations

Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, Cariad Astles (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2019), 222 pp.
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Redefining Community: Community Radio Licencing in Zimbabwe at Crossroads

Last Alfandika, Sarah Kimberly Muchetwa
African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 42-56
"The promulgation of the Broadcasting Service Act (BSA), which contains a three-tier model of the broadcasting system, was supposed to revolutionise the broadcasting media sphere in Zimbabwe. It was supposed to change the dynamics of radio broadcasting in Zimbabwe by increasing the opportunity for p ... more
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Wir Herrenmenschen. Unser rassistisches Erbe: Eine Reise in die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte

Bartholomäus Grill
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2019), 299 pp.
"Auch wenn die deutsche Kolonialgeschichte mittlerweile öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erfährt, wird die Herrschaft, die Deutschland in seinen "Schutzgebieten" in Afrika, China und der Südsee ausübte, oft immer noch als eher harmlose historische Episode abgetan. Der langjährige Afrika-Korrespondent ... more
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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
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Allan Thompson (ed.)
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.
"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other ... more
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Social Media and Journalism in Ethiopia: Setting the Scene for Reform

Christer L. Pettersson, Nigussu Solomon
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute; Nubia Media & Communications (2019), 28 pp.
"Social media has, in a few years, turned the political landscape in Ethiopia on its head not only as a means of mobilising people, but also as a means of spreading rumours, hate speech and disinformation [...] What ultimately is happening is that digital media has made a more invasive, ultimately p ... more
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Promoting Best Practice Among Activists for More Effective Collaboration in Digital Rights Litigation in Kenya

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 4 pp.
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Journalism and Human Rights Standards in Africa: Reportage of Violence Against Persons with Albinism in Malawian Newspapers

Joe Mlenga
African Human Rights Yearbook (2019), 15 pp.
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Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
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Anya Schiffrin
New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2019), 180 pp.
"Three years after writing the report Publishing for Peanuts, in which we surveyed 35 media startups mostly from the Global South, we decided to go back and see how the outlets had fared. Our area of interest in 2015 was small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consisten ... more
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The Highs and Lows of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 8 pp.
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Challenging the Glass Ceiling: Study of Women in the Newsroom in Tanzania

Dar es Salaam: Media Council of Tanzania (2019), viii, 31 pp.
"This study has reconfirmed that the challenges facing media women still persist. The glass ceiling is still intact. There are still fewer women in decision making position than man. Women are more likely to be paid less than their male counterparts and upward mobility is very small. Situations wher ... more