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L'autre version de la crise centrafricaine

Johnny Vianney Bissakonou
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 132 pp.
"La bipolarisation de la crise centrafricaine en conflit "chrétiens versus musulmans" détourne l'attention du monde sur les origines, la vraie nature et les auteurs instigateurs de ce drame. Cet ouvrage allume les projecteurs sur tous ceux qui ont joué une partition non négligeable dans ce mélo ... more
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Media Freedom and Right to Information in Africa

Luca Bussotti, Miguel de Barros, Tilo Grätz (eds.)
Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2015), 136 pp.
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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Birgit Meyer
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination ... more
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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
Deep Insights

Chris Snow, Will Taylor
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 48 pp.
"The report explores how discussion programmes – where a diverse audience, representing the whole of society, is engaged in fair and balanced debate – can stimulate both private/interpersonal discussion and public discussion in either a community setting or one hosted by local government. It the ... more
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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Deep Insights

Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more
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Do Mass Media Interventions Effectively Promote Peace in Contexts of Ongoing Violence? Evidence from Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Rezarta Bilali, Johanna Ray Vollhardt
Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, volume 21, issue 4 (2015), 17 pp.
"We report on a field experiment and a focus group interview study that examine the impact of a media-based intervention (i.e., radio drama) aimed at promoting peaceful intergroup relations in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Study 1, we used a priming paradigm to assess the causal ... more
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From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme

Maja Kominko (ed.)
Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2015), lxviii, 651 pp.
"This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical signifi cance of the collections ide ... more
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Media and Information Literacy for the Sustainable Development Goals

Jagtar Singh, Alton Grizzle, Sin Joan Yee, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2015), 334 pp.
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A History of the Press in Nigeria from 1859-2015 and the Origins of the Nigerian Broadcasting and Film Industry

Ifedayo Daramola
Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press (2015), viii, 270 pp.
"This study contends that democracy and political change is deeply rooted in the mass media’s ability to become a major agent of political socialization that was capable of mobilizing local populations into changing longstanding African attitudes about politics and election outcome behaviors." (Pu ... more
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Justice and Poverty as Challenges for the Christian Churches: With a Case Study on the Democratic Republic of Congo

Bosela E. Eale
Geneva: Globethics.net (2015), 338 pp.
"The goal of this thesis is to investigate the role of Christian churches and thegovernment in the fight against injustice and the eradication of poverty. In the first two chapters, an overview of the concept of justice is proposed in both the New and Old Testaments, in the light of the challenge fo ... more
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Les médias centrafricains dans la tourmente

Reporters Sans Frontières (2015), 21 pp.
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Untold Stories: How Corruption and Conflicts of Interest Stalk the Newsroom
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London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), v, 82 pp.
"This report, which has been produced by a group of distinguished journalists and their supporters, examines the broad scope of the crisis. It covers countries where media are on the frontline of tough political battles, such as Egypt and Turkey. In Ukraine, for instance, the practice of paid-for jo ... more
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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz, Devra C. Moehler
Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587
"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media ... more
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Influencing the Information Domain: The United Nations’ Information Intervention in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob
In: Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), pp. 178-198
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Humanitarianism 2.0

Guillaume Bazerli, Theresa Bean, Angela Crandall et al.
Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.
"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio ... more
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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey
GSMA; Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.
"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more
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De l’utilisation des médias au Mali

Berlin; Bamako: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT); Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2015), 89 pp.
"En février et en mars 2015 Media in Transition and Cooperation (MiCT) et la Fondation Friedrich Ebert à Bamako (FES) en coopération avec l’Institut d’Economie rurale malien ont procédé à une analyse de l’usage des médias à Bamako et dans sept chefs-lieux régionaux ainsi que dans troi ... more
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The Gambia Media Survey

Gates Malaria Partnership; Center for Innovation Against Malaria (2014), 56 pp.
"A national survey was completed in November 2004, designed to measure: media access and use; knowledge of Malaria, its prevention and cure; reach of the radio programme Bolongodala. The sample achieved represented the adult (15+) population of the Gambia estimated to be 768,200. Mandinka is the mos ... more
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Postconflict Reconstruction

Tim Kelly, David Souter
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 99 pp.
"Examines how policymakers, the donor community, and the private sector have prioritized and sequenced ICT initiatives in the aftermath of conflict. Case studies look at countries at different stages of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda and Timor-Leste, and postrevolution ... more