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Peace Journalism on a Shoestring? Conflict Reporting in Nigeria’s National News Media

Leila Demarest, Arnim Langer
Journalism, volume 21, issue 3 (2021), pp. 671-688
"In this paper, we investigate to what extent Nigerian newspapers practice peace journalism by emphasizing underlying causes of conflict in their reporting rather than stressing ethnic and religious divisions. We make use of a sequential mixed methods approach, which combines a quantitative content ... more
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Media Law Handbook for Southern Africa, Vol. 1
Key Guides

Justine Limpitlaw
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), 2nd ed. (2021), xl, 416 pp.
"Media Laws on the African continent have been amended, revised and rewritten since the first edition of the SADC Media Law Handbook was first published nearly a decade ago. The reasons for new media laws range from the advent of social media to the realisation of the powers-that-be that, with new t ... more
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Demystifying the COVID-19 Infodemic: Conspiracies, Context, and the Agency of Users

Iginio Gagliardone, Stephanie Diepeveen, Kyle Findlay, Samuel Olaniran, Matti Pohjonen, Edwin Tallam
Social Media + Society, volume 7, issue 3 (2021), 16 pp.
"This article presents new empirical insights into what people do with conspiracy theories during crises. By suppressing the impulse to distinguish between truth and falsehood, which has characterized most scholarship on the COVID-19 “infodemic,” and engaging with claims surrounding two popular ... more
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Chinese Television in Africa

Alessandro Jedlowski
Theory, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 7-8 (2021), pp. 233-250
"On the basis of the results of an ongoing research project on the activities of the Chinese media company StarTimes in Nigeria and Côte d' Ivoire, this paper analyses the fluid and fragmentary dimension of the engagements between Chinese media and African publics, while equally emphasizing the pow ... more
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Paulo Freire, 100 Years

Adilson Citelli, Ana Cristina Suzina, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284
"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa ... more
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Beyond Fake News: The Central African Republic’s Hate Speech Problem

Brianna Ferebee, Rachel Sullivan
United States Institute of Peace (USIP), August 16 (2021)
"After a recent contested election, the Central African Republic finds itself in a precarious situation. Violence around the election combined with the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19 and destructive flooding have caused the humanitarian emergency to reach its worst state in five years. Meanwhile ... more
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Regional E-Waste Monitor for the Arab States

Giulia Iattoni, Elise Vermeersch, Cornelis Peter Baldé, Innocent Chidi Nnorom, Ruediger Kuehr
Bonn: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR); ITU; United Nations University (UNU) (2021), 103 pp.
"The key statistical findings for the region are that electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) placed on the market (POM) increased by 30 per cent from 3.2 megatons (Mt), or 8.8 kilograms per inhabitant (kg/inh), in 2010 to 4.1 Mt (or 9.5 kg/inh) in 2019. The Arab States mostly import, rather than ... more
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Using Social Listening to Inform Integrated Social and Behavior Change Programs in Burkina Faso

Nrupa Jani, Leanne Dougherty, Martha Silva
Washington, DC: Population Council (2021), 25 pp.
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Media and Information Literacy: A Critical Response to the Challenge of „Infodemic" in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era in Nigeria

Elizabeth Titilayo Aduloju
International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, volume 5, issue 7 (2021), 24 pp.
"Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa is not left out in the fight against the COVID-19 outbreak that continues to ravage the entire universe. The deadly virus as of 26th June 2021 has infected more than 181.3 million people and killed over 3.9 million people globally. In Nigeria alone, it h ... more
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Smart Migration Guide: Ghana

Susanne Bellinghausen, Sara Budarz et al.
Migrant Media Network; r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation (2021), 59 pp.
"The #MMN Smart Migration Guide offers information, discussion topics, and resources to be used by trainers and potential migrants to learn about the impact and consequences of migration. The guide is designed to support individuals in clarifying their goals and in making informed, safer migration d ... more
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Ghana 2020 Elections: Monitoring of Indecent Language on Radio. June 2020-January 2021

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2021), 34 pp.
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DRG Learning, Evaluation, and Research (DRG-LER) Activity Mali Counter-Trafficking in Persons (C-TIP) Research: Summary of Literature Review Findings

Mousumi Sarkar
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), 54 pp.
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Communication traditionnelle et moderne pour un objectif commun: L'exemple du peuple vili au Congo-Brazzaville

Jean-Michel Tchitembo
Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 196 pp.
"Pour le peuple vili en République du Congo-Brazzaville, comme ailleurs en Afrique subsaharienne, la communication orale était de mise. L’oralité avait son importance surtout au Muanze, sorte d’institution de vie communautaire. De nos jours, en Afrique en général et en milieu vili en partic ... more
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Media and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa (Part One)

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2021), pp. 133-299
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Myths and Misconceptions on Covid-19: ‘Congo Check’ and ‘Talato’ Verification Experiences

Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos
Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 627214 (2021), 21 pp.
"This paper asks: How do fact-checkers combat/halt Covid-19 myths and misconceptions in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic? How do they engage in social media networks toward sense-giving and sharing corrective information? It discusses two cases of online media projec ... more
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A Weapon of the Weak: Fighting Police Brutality Through Social Media

Lynda Chinenye Iroulo
Hamburg: German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) (2021), 12 pp.
"The 20 October 2021 marks the first anniversary of the shooting of unarmed protesters by the Nigerian military. The movement pushing to abolish the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) has proved how social media can make the voices of the weak heard. However, recent developments surrounding social me ... more
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Deployment of a Community Information Platform in Santo Antão Island: A Case Study from Cabo Verde

Petra Zist, Emily Boaventura, Jorge Ramos
In: C&T '21: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communities & Technologies
New York: Association for Computing Machinery (2021), pp. 160-168
"We present a case study of a community media project development Alert4You and describe the process of fostering a local community information platform through socio-technical innovation in 4 rural and remote island communities of Santo Antão in Republic of Cabo Verde. A mix of analogous and digit ... more
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Routledge Handbook on Arab Media
Deep Insights

Noureddine Miladi, Noha Mellor (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2021), 528 pp.
"This Handbook provides the first comprehensive reference book in English about the development of mass and social media in all Arab countries. Capturing the historical as well as current developments in the media scene, this collection maps the role of media in social and political movements. Contr ... more
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Television in Africa in the Digital Age

Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxi, 295 pp.
"This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of t ... more
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Les radios locales: Histoires, territoires et réseaux

Thierry Lefebvre, Sebastien Poulain (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 258 pp.
"En 1981, la loi autorisait les radios associatives françaises à diffuser leurs émissions en modulation de fréquence après une « bataille » qui a fait l’objet d’un autre livre chez le même éditeur : Radios libres, 30 ans de FM. La parole libérée ? (2016). Quarante années plus tard, p ... more