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Democratising the Media in the New Democracies of Ghana and Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 87-105
"The institutionalisation of democracy in Ghana (1992) and Nigeria (1999) after years of military regimes facilitated the need to reform old media structures that supported authoritarian regimes into institutions that would facilitate the democratic process. The media reform initiatives embarked upo
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Jésus au bout du clic: L'Eglise répond à la communication
Kinshasa: Baobab (2014), 152 pp.
"Poussées autant par l’enseignement de l’Eglise que par les appels de la mission au quotidien, les communautés de l’Eglise d’Afrique s’engagent de jour en jour et de mieux en mieux pour apporter une réponse aux appels à la communication. Il suffit même de considérer le besoin de visi
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Wer erzählt? Fotografie und Macht
iz3w, issue 343 (2014), pp. 16-40
"Im Kontext einer nord-süd-politisch relevanten Information interessiert besonders die Frage der Repräsentation, der Klischeebildung, der Ermächtigung. Ein Foto kann empathisch aufmerksam machen oder zur Schau stellen, aber auch Nähe erzeugen, berühren. Nicht immer folgt auf eine gute Absicht e
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
Global Citizenship in a Digital World
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.
"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation
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Women and Media: Africa in Focus
Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 35 slides
"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male
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Videos That Speak for Themselves: When Non-Extensionists Show Agricultural Videos to Large Audiences
Development in Practice, volume 24, issue 7 (2014), pp. 921-929
"In 2008, an NGO showed videos about rice to farmers in 19 villages in Benin. A study in 2013 showed that farmers remembered the videos, even after five years had passed. In most of the villages at least some farmers experimented with rice farming or with new technology after the video screenings, w
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"While radio is still in the lead for news consumption in Nigeria, the use of digital media and mobile continues to grow rapidly. The new research also reveals that Nigerian personal mobile phone ownership has increased significantly in 2014 to 83.0%, up from 73.1% in 2012. Mobile web is the leading
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Healthcare Management Strategy, Communication, and Development Challenges and Solutions in Developing Countries
Lanham: Lexington Books (2014), xvi, 240 pp.
"This publication analyzes the ways in which health services, public health administration, and healthcare policies are managed in developing countries and how intercultural, intergroup, and mass communication practices are weakening those efforts. If developing countries are to reach their developm
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Communications, Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management
European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2014), 68 pp.
"The articles contained in this publication are dispatches from a new frontline in humanitarian action: the digital frontier. All are written by those observing, experiencing and attempting to respond to the challenges created by the digital revolution and the very real threats it is creating for hu
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Technologische Dramen: Radiokulturen und Medienwandel in Benin (Westafrika)
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2014), 385 pp.
"Neue Mediengesetze und Technologien verändern das Radio in Westafrika. Tilo Grätz analysiert diesen Wandel am Beispiel der Aneignung von Radiotechnologien in Benin. Er zeigt: Die Prozesse vollziehen sich im Wechselspiel von Produzenten, Hörern und technischen Möglichkeiten unter dem Einfluss me
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa; African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.
"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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Listeners' Clubs: New Partnerships
Dimitra Newsletter, issue 23 (2013), pp. 3-7
Reciprocity and risk in the work and lives of Kinshasa's TV journalists
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 1 (2013), pp. 57-71
"Just like in many other sub-Saharan African countries, Kinshasa's media world has opened up in the mid 1990s. Especially since 2002, local TV stations have been mushrooming. This has not only led to a proliferation of media productions, but it has also enlarged the terrain of local journalists, in
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The Digital Divide: The Internet and Social Inequality in International Perspective
London: Routledge (2013), 324 pp.
"This book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of inequality and the stratification of the digital sphere. Grounded in classical sociological theories of inequality, as well as empirical evidence, this book defines “the digital divide” as the unequal access and utility of internet communic
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Promesses et désespoirs d'un service public: La Radiodiffusion Télévision Sénégalaise
Paris: L'Harmattan (2013), 320 pp.
"La Radiotélévision sénégalaise (RTS) est en retard sur l’évolution politique du peuple et de l’Administration qui ont réussi deux alternances pacifi ques à la tête de l’État. Elle reste la chasse gardée des pouvoirs successifs qui en ont toujours fait un instrument de propagande à
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Neue Medien
Nah Dran (GIZ), issue 1 (2013), pp. 12-27
Côte D’Ivoire 2010–2011 Post-Electoral Crisis: An Approach from the Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 187-201
"The objective of this work is approaching the political crisis occurred in Côte d´Ivoire after the contested elections of 2010, through the perspective of the Ivorian media and media professionals. This study draws theoretically on the media political economy and critical understanding of the rel
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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236
"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then
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