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Somalia: Media Law and Policy Review

African Union, United Nations Information Support Team for Somalia (IST); Centre for Law and Democracy (CLD); Somali Media Support Group (SMSG); UNESCO (2012), 22 pp.
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania

Vipul Khosla, Kavita Abraham Dowsing
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 289-311
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Promoting National Unity: The Role of Radio Broadcasting in the Process of Decolonisation in Namibia and Zambia

Robert Heinze
Universität Konstanz, Doctoral Thesis (2012), iv, 313 pp.
"This thesis operates from the observation that "Decolonising the Mind", i.e. a cultural decolonisation process, was needed after the independence of African countries to support and flesh out political decolonisation. Culture, as shown, played a major role in the mobilisation of support for nationa ... more
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A Story a Day...: The Media as a Preventive Tool in Public Health. A Legacy Assessment of Internews' Health Journalism Program in Kenya and its Impact on the Media, the Public Health Sector and the Audience

Callie Long
Washington, DC; Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2012), 69 pp.
"Guided by two overarching questions – do people want or need health news, and are they satisfied with the health news available to them – Internews used a mixed methods approach, conducting surveys, focus group discussions and in-depth interviews, as well as mining years of project data and rep ... more
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Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa

Lebo Ramafoko, Gavin Andersson, Renay Weiner
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162
"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: South Africa

Guy Berger, Zikhona Masala
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 120 pp.
"Developments in digital media in South Africa are densely intertwined with political factors. The Government has sought to be the driver of digitization, but it has also caused repeated delays in digital roll-out. In addition, the Government has had contradictory interests such as promoting competi ... more
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Mapping the Somali Media: An Overview

Mohamed Husein Gaas, Stig Jarle Hansen, David Berry
Aas (NO): Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric (2012), iii, 24 pp.
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Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World

Daniel C. Hallin, Paolo Mancini (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), ix, 344 pp.
"Comparing Media Systems Beyond the Western World offers a broad exploration of the conceptual foundations for comparative analysis of media and politics globally. It takes as its point of departure the widely used framework of Daniel C. Hallin and Paolo Mancini's Comparing Media Systems, exploring ... more
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South African Cinema 1896-2010

Martin Botha
Bristol; Chicago: intellect (2012), 307 pp.
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South Sudan: World's Youngest Nation Yet to Embark on Road to Civil Liberties

Ambroise Pierre
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2012), 12 pp.
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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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Mapping EU Media Support 2000-2010

Andrew Puddephatt, Per Oesterlund
EPRD Policy & Development; European Commission (2012), 52 pp.
"Generally, data about media development support are not complete and reliable due to insufficient classification categories in the DAC system, so the EC and most other international institutions and organisations share the problem of not having solid knowledge about the scope and size of support in ... more
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Something to be Glad About? Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media

Musa Oswald Rikhotso, Sandra Roberts
Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa; Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2012), viii, 46 pp.
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The Wanakonnect Pilot Project: Using Mobile Money to Create a Revenue System for Local Radio Stations in Kenya

Angela Crandall, Leonida Mutuku
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 66 pp.
"The community radio stations participating in the pilot project offer special dedication and greeting programs that allow community members to send greetings to friends and family on air. The main objective of this pilot was to understand whether these generally underfunded radio stations could mon ... more
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The Handbook of Global Health Communication

Rafael Obregón, Silvio R. Waisbord (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2012), xx, 658 pp.
"The Handbook of Global Health Communication offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the role of communication processes in global public health, development and social change. It brings together 32 contributions from well-respected scholars and practitioners in the field, addressing a wid ... more
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Editorial Freedom and Responsibility

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 1-137
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Public Memory, Public Media, and the Politics of Justice

Philip Lee, Pradip Thomas (eds.)
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvii, 220 pp.
"This book aims to provide a context in which a clear link can be traced between the politics of memory and its manifold representations and misrepresentations in public media towards a viable politics of justice. The assumption is that public awareness and perceptions of injustice, whether they are ... more
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Shielding Marginalized Groups from Verbal Assaults Without Abusing Hate Speech Laws

Yared Legesse Mengistu
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 352-277
"There is immense difficulty in regulating hate speech on the ground of ethnicity when ethnicity is a prime cehicle for political organization and mobilization. On the one hand, substantive (real) equality demands that certain marginalized ethnic gropus be shielded from hate speech in order to have ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2012), 273 pp.
"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more
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The Media Map Project: Kenya. Case Study Snapshot of Donor Support to ICTs and Media, 2011

Katharine Allen, Iginio Gagliardone
Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2012), 39 pp.
"For the media in Kenya to improve further, the following recommendations emerge from the study: Provide clear regulation that liberates the media at all levels, including in the editorial process; invest in practical training of media professionals to cope with the dynamic media sector and the new ... more