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De Gruyter Handbook of Media Economics

Ulrike Rohn, M. Bjørn von Rimscha, Tim Raats (eds.)
Berlin: De Gruyter (2024), xix, 566 pp.
"The handbook presents key contributions from scholars worldwide, providing a comprehensive exploration of current trends in media industries from diverse perspectives. Within the framework of understanding contemporary and future trajectories in media markets and industries, the volume delves into ... more
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Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders

Ousseina Alidou
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2024), xxi, 264 pp.
"Protest Arts, Gender, and Social Change: Fiction, Popular Songs, and the Media in Hausa Society across Borders by Ousseina Alidou examines how a new generation of novelists, popular songwriters, and musical performers in contemporary Hausa society are using their creative works to effect social cha ... more
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RSF and 547 Community radios call for the protection and support of community radio stations in the Sahel

Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2024), 34 pp.
"We, the signatories of the appeal for the protection and support of community radio stations in the Sahel [...] call on the political authorities of the Sahel countries to combat impunity for crimes committed against community radio journalists by systematically opening investigations to ensure tha ... more
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Le journalisme sénégalais a la croisée des chemins

Sadibou Marong, Camille Montagu
Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2024), 27 pp.
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Next gen news: Understanding the audiences of 2030

Aliya Itzkowitz, Ben Whitelaw, Daisy Donald et al.
FT Strategies; Knight Lab (2024), 84 pp.
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Mapping Lies in the Global Media Sphere

Tirse Erbaysal Filibeli, Melis Öneren Özbek (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 224 pp.
"This volume addresses the concept of “(in)nocent lies” in the media – beyond the concept of misleading information online, this extends to a deliberate effort to spread misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories – and proposes a critical approach to tackle the issue in related i ... more
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Gendered Threats and Attacks in and outside the Newsroom: Nigerian Female Journalists' Experiences with Harassment

Moyosore Omowonuola Alade
In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 67-87
"This chapter explores Nigerian female journalists’ lived experiences with harassment in and outside the newsroom. Using a qualitative approach, 12 in-depth interviews were conducted with female journalists in broadcast media houses in Nigeria, and themes that emerged from the data obtained via in ... more
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Disseminating reliable health information through participatory radio programming on Indigenous language media: A study on selected community radio stations in rural Ghana

Manfred A. K. Asuman, Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey
Journal of Alternative & Community Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2024), pp. 217-236
"This study is aimed to ascertain the role community media plays in the dissemination of reliable health information for rural community dwellers. By sampling three community radio stations in rural Ghana, the study presents a new perspective on how health dis/misinformation can be debunked through ... more
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Safety and security of journalists in Ghana: Policies and journalists’ perception of stakeholders, issues and practices

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2024), pp. 285-301
"This study examines the safety and security of journalists in Ghana, assessing their satisfaction with key media stakeholders and the state of press freedom through the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) journalists’ safety indicators. Using a predominan ... more
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Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism

Lungile Augustine Tshuma, Trust Matsilele, Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga, Sadia Jamil (eds.)
New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"Drawing from case studies from selected African countries, an international team of authors offer a broad insight into the state of harassment across the continent, while building new theoretical perspectives that are also context-specific. The chapters bring previous theories and research up to da ... more
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Commemorative Newsletter of the ACHPR Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa

Hlengiwe Dube (ed.)
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 66 pp.
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Africa Privacy Report 2023/2024: A Review of Policy Trends and Digital Frontiers in the Data Protection Landscape

Linda Bonyo, Jorge Clarke, Risper Onyango et al.
Nairobi: Lawyers Hub (2024), 46 pp.
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Mobile telephony and changing patterns of audiences’ engagement with global media in Africa

Abdullahi Tasiu
Global Media and Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2024), pp. 71-89
"This article explores the patterns and consequences of transnational audiences’ engagement with global media in the digital age, focusing on experiences in Africa. It examines Nigerians’ interactions with the BBC World Service, and draws on active audience theory and Joseph Nye’s soft power c ... more
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Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century

Michael Lithgow, Michèle Martin
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2024), 365 pp.
"News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journal ... more
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Media in Africa: Issues and Critiques

Toks Oyedemi, René A. Smith (eds.)
New York; London: Routledge (2024), 232 pp.
"Featuring contributions from global scholars, that represent both new and established voices on the African continent and the diaspora, this volume explores themes of decolonization, media freedom, media censorship, identity, representation, pluralism, media framing, political economy of the media ... more
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Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News

Tommy Gustafsson
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2024), xii, 297 pp.
"The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the construction, the development, and the recreati ... more
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Construction des identités des journalistes kinois dans le discours médiatique télévisuel: Analyse de l’émission de débat politique Club 50 de la chaîne Télé 50

Brunel Musinkete Mpongo
Kinshasa: Université Catholique du Congo, Master Thesis (2024), vi, 232 pp.
"[...] L’objectif de ce mémoire de DEA était de démontrer la manière dont les journalistes construisent leurs identités lorsqu’ils analysent l’actualité de la semaine sur le plateau de Télé 50. Nous avons considéré l’émission ayant fait objet d’analyse, de discours médiatique. ... more
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Examining the Safety of Journalists in Benue State, Nigeria

Paul Aondover Igbashangev, Oliver Ayangeaor, Ahangba Andrew Akpam
[author] (2024), 16 pp.
"Journalists play a crucial role in disseminating information and ensuring transparency in society. However, in many regions around the world, journalists face significant risks and threats to their safety, hindering their ability to fulfill their professional duties effectively. This article focuse ... more
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Reading Justice Claims on Social Media: Perspectives from the Global South

Phillip Santos, Cleophas T. Muneri (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxi, 326 pp.
"This book explores how unresolved questions of social justice shape the character of the political terrain and political actors, through the lens of social media. It treats communication as the medium through which social issues and processes are made visible. Given the rise and spread of populist ... more
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Technologies socionumériques en Côte d'Ivoire : Formes d'engagement politique et médiatique

Tahirou Koné
Paris: L'Harmattan (2024), 166 pp.
"L'irruption du numérique et de l'Internet mobile a accéléré la transformation digitale de la société ivoirienne. Et, de plus en plus, des formes d'engagement politique et médiatique s'organisent avec l'utilisation des technologies socionumériques. Face à ces changements, la Côte d'Ivoire ... more