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Sudanese Media Ecosystem
Internews (2025), 44 pp.
"Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted between May and August 2025, including interviews with journalists, media organisations, policymakers, and civil society activists, the report highlights how Sudan’s media environment has transformed into a “parallel battlefield” where
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Unpacking the African media typology: Perspectives from journalists in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda
International Communication Gazette, volume 87, issue 7 (2025), pp. 633-656
"The uniqueness of journalism cultures across African nations often highlights the inapplicability of normative, Western-centric theories. The newly proposed African media typology suggests that media systems in Africa would be best understood by thinking about them within the context of the type of
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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
Deep Insights
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate
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Exploring a Practice-Oriented Methodology for Measuring News Media Quality in Tanzania
African Journalism Studies, volume 46, issue 4 (2025), pp. 391-409
"Measuring the quality of news media is a crucial yet often overlooked aspect of enabling informed decision-making among citizens. Despite the lack of consensus on its definition and measurement, this paper introduces a practice-oriented methodology for evaluating news media quality across print, ra
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Story Work for a Just Future: Exploring the Plurality of Knowledge and Method within the Digital Storytelling Community
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (2025), xiii, 227 pp.
"[...] new digital formats require people to craft their stories in new ways while capturing the emotion, nuance, and themes of what they remember and what they believe to be significant. They must learn through reflection, questioning, consideration, trial, revision, and feedback—and chapters in
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Vulnerable Media, Struggling Democracy: A Critical Appraisal of Uganda’s Media Legal Framework
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2025), 38 pp.
"This report presents an in-depth examination of Uganda’s media legal and regulatory framework, with a particular focus on its implications for press freedom, democratic engagement, and the overarching vitality of the media sector. The findings reveal a disconcerting trend: although constitutional
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Freedoms of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power
Deep Insights
Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2025), 479 pp.
"Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice;
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The Sustainability Imperative in Media Development: A Critical Analysis of a Self-Serving Myth
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxiv, 396 pp.
"This book critically examines how the media assistance and broader "development" sectors have appropriated the catch-all concept of sustainability, originally rooted in economic and environmental fields, to suit their agendas. Analysing 289 project evaluations conducted globally between 1999 and 20
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Oral history in South Africa: Autoethnography, methodologies and ethics
Cape Town: AOSIS Publishing (2025), 228 pp.
"Colonial and apartheid-era historical narratives in South Africa often disregard oral testimonies, leaving significant gaps in understanding the country’s rich and complex past. This scholarly book explores the methodologies and ethics of oral history to address these omissions and to elevate ora
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The world needs to learn from Indigenous wisdom
D+C: Development and Cooperation, issue 9 (2025), pp. 25-52
"Indigenous communities are the descendants of a country’s first peoples. Their stories are often marked by colonisation, oppression and the loss of culture and land. Today, they are fighting worldwide to preserve their identities and ways of life, which continue to be threatened by land grabbing,
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End Term evaluation of the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) programme support 2018-2024. Final report
Sundbyberg: Swedish International Development Agency (Sida) (2025), x, 59, 28 pp.
"The Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) was established in 1995 as a self-regulatory body to oversee and promote media ethics and resolve complaints over media practice. MCT’s activities have since expanded to include training and advocacy on laws, policies, and protecting key rights for the media. S
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State-Sponsored Disinformation Around the Globe: How Politicians Deceive their Citizens
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xiii, 336 pp.
"This book explores the pervasive and globalised trajectory of domestic disinformation. It describes specific operations and general apparatuses of disinformation that are sponsored by the State institutions in several countries around the world, such as governments, political parties, and politicia
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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 134-147
"This paper aims to shed light on the threats that young people living in refugee camps face in their use of Facebook. While social media enable a participatory process of communication (Russo et al., 2008), which is based on the agency of the communicator and defined by their own cultural and moral
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The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies
Oxford: Routledge (2025), xxiii, 419 pp.
"In response to widespread demand for more knowledge and insight about contemporary photographies beyond Western centers of production and dissemination, this volume provides a transnational discussion, grounded in dialogue between authors and editors from diverse locations and contexts. Ecological
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Russian information operations outside of the Western information environment
Riga: NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Rev. version (2025), 184 pp.
"This report, drawing from research, qualitative and quantitative data, Key Insight Interviews (KIIs), digital tools, and Russian information and deception doctrine, explores the Kremlin’s IIOs in non-Western environments using five selected countries as case studies: Egypt, Mali, Kenya, South Afr
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ICTs, Smallholder Agriculture and Farmers’ Livelihood Improvement in Developing Countries: Evidence from Tanzania
Information Development, volume 41, issue 2 (2025), pp. 368-387
"Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are among the profound tools to help the poor and marginalized rural smallholder farmers make a difference in their lives. This paper seeks to understand how the recent development of ICTs helps increase agricultural productivity and improve smallho
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The African Book Industry: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Growth
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 249 pp.
"Thanks to its outstanding literary talent and growing number of success stories, Africa’s book industry holds immense potential. Although the continent as a whole still relies heavily on imports and foreign publishing houses, it accounted for 5.4% of the global publishing market in 2023, generati
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Internet Shutdowns in Africa: Technology, Rights and Power
Deep Insights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xiv, 286 pp.
"This open access book provides ten in-depth case studies of state-sponsored internet shutdowns across all regions of Africa. In so doing, it offers the first-ever comparative analysis of how African states use internet shutdowns as tools to close civic space, suppress opposition, and maintain power
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Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"Drawing from case studies from selected African countries, an international team of authors offer a broad insight into the state of harassment across the continent, while building new theoretical perspectives that are also context-specific. The chapters bring previous theories and research up to da
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