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Covering Post-Conflict Elections: Challenges for the Media in Central Africa

Marie-Soleil Frère
Africa Spectrum, volume 46, issue 1 (2011), pp. 3-32
"This paper attempts to show the many challenges faced by the media while covering post-Conflict electoral processes. In a context of great political tension, in which candidates are often former belligerents who have just put down their guns to go to the polls, the media operate in an unsafe and ec ... more
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What is the Relationship Between Hate Radio and Violence? Rethinking Rwanda's "Radio Machete"

Scott Straus
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 83-101
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Drama for Development: Cultural Translation and Social Change
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Andrew Skuse, Marie Gillespie, Gerry Power (eds.)
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage (2011), xxiii, 324 pp.
"By assessing edutainment as a space of cultural translation, Drama for Development advances an often neglected perspective in this topics' research. It focuses on what happens when various goals, worldviews and needs from donors, producers and the audiences come together in the production and meani ... more
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Community Radio im Reality Check

Johannes Preuß
Medienheft, issue 20. April (2011), 4 pp.
"Kritischer Journalismus kann in Gemeinschaftsmedien die zivile Gesellschaft stärken. Voraussetzung dafür wären jedoch ausreichende finanzielle Ressourcen und ein unbestechliches journalistisches Rollenverständnis. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der lokalen Radiostation Arise FM in Ghana." (Einleitun ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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MAPs Without Direction: Media Assistance Projects in Post-War Sierra Leone

Rosemary Quipp
Montreal: McGill University, Master Thesis (2011), vi, 86 pp.
"Sierra Leone‘s brutal civil war devastated the country‘s population and left its infrastructure in disarray. Over the last decade, international organizations have provided financial and technical assistance to many areas of society, including journalists and the media. Media assistance program ... more
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African Media Barometer: Togo 2010

Windhoek; Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 138 pp.
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Les politiques de la REDD+ dans les médias: Le cas du Cameroun

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 28 pp.
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The New Age of Radio: How ICTs Are Changing Rural Radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp.
"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to ... more
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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media

Carolyn M. Byerly
Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.
"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei ... more
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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.
"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more
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Trust in international news media in partially free media environments: A case study of five markets in Africa and South Asia

Anne Geniets
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 92 pp.
"This report is focused on attitudes to trust in international media. It collates findings from 36 focus groups and 11 immersion interviews conducted in Nairobi (Kenya), Cairo (Egypt), Dakar (Senegal), Mumbai (India) and Lahore (Pakistan) in the summer and autumn of 2010 [...] The report explores th ... more
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Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
Key Guides

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2011), 54 pp.
"This publication is particularly relevant for radio stations intending to establish listeners' clubs. It presents the experience of community listeners' clubs established in the mid-2000s in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger by the FAO and its partners, and the results that these initiativ ... more
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Expanding Peace Journalism: Comparative and Critical Approaches

Jake Lynch, Ibrahim Seaga Shaw, Robert A. Hackett (eds.)
Sydney: Sydney University Press (2011), 389 pp.
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric ... more
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REDD+ Politics in the Media. A Case Study from Cameroon

Djiegni Flicien Kengoum
Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2011), 26 pp.
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Mass Media and Democratisation in Cameroon in the Early 1990s

Francis B. Nyamnjoh
Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp.
"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti ... more
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Religion and Celebrity

Carol M. Cusack (ed.)
Australian Religion Studies Review, volume 24, issue 3 (2011), pp. 227-360
"This issue of Australian Religion Studies Review examines the intersection of religion and celebrity, both major discourses in the modern world. The six articles examine the imbrication of celebrity with: three traditional religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism; the new religion of Candomblé; ... more
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Comunicación para la paz en acción: Periodismos, conflictos, alfabetización mediática y alianza de civilizaciones = Communication for Peace in Action: Journalisms, Conflicts, Media Literacy and Alliance of Civilizations

Eloísa Nos Aldás, José Ignacio Martín Galán, Fatuma Ahmed Ali (eds.)
Castelló de la Plana: Universitat Jaume I (2011), 301 pp.
"Desde la perspectiva de los medios de comunicación, se presentan en esta obra investigaciones académicas y lecciones aprendidas en cuatro apartados: el impacto de los medios de comunicación en la construcción de violencia cultural, medios alternativos para la construcción de paz, alfabetizaci ... more
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‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 161-188
"In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maran ... more