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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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The Somali Media and Their Peace-Building Potential

Terje S. Skjerdal
Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, volume 11 (2012), pp. 27-50
"One of the key issues to be interrogated by media researchers in relation to conflicted societies is the extent to which the media serve to escalate or reduce the overall conflict situation. The argument goes that the media either escalate the conflict by accentuating disagreements, foregrounding c ... more
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African Media Barometer: Uganda 2012

Windhoek; Kampala: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 75 pp.
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Mozambique: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 150 pp.
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#ICT4HR: Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights

Molly Land, Patrick Meier, Mark Belinski, Emily Jacobi
World Bank Institute; Open Development Technology Alliance; ICT4Gov (2012), 45 pp.
"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form ... more
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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.
"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... 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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Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa

Andrew Edward Van der Vlies (ed.)
Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press (2012), 476 pp.
"This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as ... more
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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative

Brilliant Mhlanga
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226
"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish ... more
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Defining the Nation: National Identity in South Sudanese Media Discourse

Ole Frahm
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 1 (2012), pp. 21-49
"This article examines debates about national identity in the media landscape of post-referendum and post-independence South Sudan. Having never existed as a sovereign state and with its citizens being a minority group in Sudan, collective action among South Sudanese has historically been shaped in ... more
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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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The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.
"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more
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Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa

Glenda Daniels
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
"Glenda Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and their conflictual relationship. She analyses this fraught relationship through various popular media stories, such as Manto and Mondli, Zapiro and Zuma. Her argument ist that there ... more
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African Media Barometer: Ethiopia 2010

Windhoek; Adis Ababa: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 64 pp.
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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in Mozambique

New York, Geneva: United Nations (2011), xiv, 95 pp.
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Kenya

Grace Githaiga
Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)
Nairobi; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP); Open Society Media Program (OSMP) (2011), xi, 126 pp.
"Kenya’s liberalisation of the airwaves since the mind-1990s has resulted in the transformation of broadcasting with numerous stations now serving as a platform for information and public debate. This has promoted a culture of participation in the democratic process, and has impacted positively to ... more
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The Press and the Political Restructuring of Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau
Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 5, issue 4 (2011), pp. 716-732
"Divisive debates on what constitutes the Ethiopian nation, how the state should be structured and how power should be devolved, have dominated Ethiopia’s private press since the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), came to power. The press has served as both ... more
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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.
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Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Mark Fackler, Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, Emmanuel Okaalet
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 626-654