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The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action

David Lush, Gabriel Urgoiti

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 83 pp.

"The study found that, in their struggle to generate the income for day-to-day running costs, stations become detached from their communities, and end up competing - usually unsuccessfully - with better-resourced commercial broadcasters. The solution, the study suggests, is to invest in strengthenin ... more

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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.

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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.

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Medien-Macht und Religionen: Herausforderung für eine interkulturelle Bildung

Manfred L. Pirner, Johannes Lähnemann, Werner Haußmann (eds.)

Berlin: EB-Verlag (2011), 362 pp.

"Medien und Religionen: ein brisantes Thema, das bisher nur unzureichend bearbeitet ist. Dabei ist spätestens seit dem 11. September 2001, seit den heftigen Auseinandersetzungen um die Mohammed-Karikaturen und dem Streit um das provokante Buch von Thilo Sarrazin deutlich, wie sehr Bilder und Videos ... more

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Media System and News Selection in Namibia

Andreas Rothe

Berlin; Münster: Lit (2010), 219 pp.

"This publication was created to serve two purposes: Firstly, it aims to provide a thorough review of the status quo of the Namibian media system. Secondly, it is the first study to apply the theory of the European-focused news value research tradition to Namibian media. Aside from literature and on ... more

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Sarah Taylor

Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)

Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), viii, 141 pp.

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L'Église Catholique en Afrique = The Catholic Church in Africa = A Igreja Católica em África

Paris: Oeuvres Pontificales Missionaires (OPM); Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), 24th ed. (2010), 775 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2009

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES); Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2009), 74 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

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Panos Southern Africa’s Communicating HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa Project, 2005–2008

Jolly Kamwanga, Richard Mutemwa

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 29 pp.

"The PANOS radio listening clubs have proved to be an effective means of communicating not only HIV and AIDS issues but other development issues within communities. The female radio clubs proved more effective than the male radio clubs. Interviews revealed that communities with the radio listening c ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM); Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.

"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Future of State-Owned Broadcasters in Southern Africa

Guy Berger

Fackson Banda; Jane Duncan; Rashweat Mukundu; Zenaida Machado (contrib.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 65 pp.

"Digital communications technology does many new things. Its spread means that it is no longer a case of a tiny minority of professionals and politicians having a monopoly on mass communication. Implicit in the observations of this report, is the recognition that - amongst other things - digitisatio ... n also disrupts old boundaries between inter-personal and mass communication. What used to be the subject of, or product of, communication between a few individuals, can increasingly be put into the public sphere. Much of this content remains personal in quality, despite it being public in availability. But there is also much that is of public interest. In some ways, this therefore threatens those institutions supposed to be specialising in public interest information. In other ways, it can help them not only reinforce this mission, but to also take a step towards expanding their role into becoming wider public interest content and commun-ications agencies. They can, in short, be the motive force that pulls personal conversations into focussing on journalism that is of common public interest. That image of leading the transformation of mass communication is, however, just one of the scenarios outlined in this report. The others point to lesser roles, even including extinction. It should be noted that scenarios are not predictions of the future, but attempts to highlight a range of possible options. They help guide action in one or other direction. The complication is that digitisation and all that comes with it can deal a surprise to even the best-considered scenario possibilities. Who would have thought that a search engine company (Google) could become such an effective player in the advertising arena? Or that newspaper newsrooms would start hiring video-capable staffers, or that some cell-phone companies would move into distributing content? Could anyone have guessed that a company like Twitter could attract and burn millions of dollars of investment without even a proper business plan about how it intends to make money? The digital revolution, if it is to succeed, needs to have top quality cadres in the newsrooms. In the face of these kinds of developments, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands and take a come-what-may approach. That’s preferable to the illusion of controlling and managing the process. At the same time, between these two extremes of paralysis and over-planning, there is a broad direction that can be identified and pursued. We may not know exactly where we are going, but - as this Report seeks to do - we can look at where we are and what’s immediately ahead. More fundamentally, however, there’s worth in remembering from whence we come. In other words, while looking at the present and near-present, and keeping an eye on what future scenarios we can imagine, we can hold onto our values. In the context of public broadcasting, these values are - in a nutshell - to focus mass communications on deepening democracy and development. These public interest values remain all the more valid in a time when the historical informational “service” model is being expanded to also function as a public interest communicational mode. Keeping these ideals aloft helps state-owned broadcasters steer a course between delivering government-interest and commercial-interest content. They help to define the meaning of universal access in the face of financial pressures and socio-economic divides. They empower people to see the big picture and to bring concerted action to bear on it. In sum, they help us reinvent “public service broadcasting” in a fashion appropriate to its contemporary possibilities. Roll on digitisation in Southern Africa - and the transformation of at least some state-owned broadcasters to become leaders in this process." ("Summing up", page 53-54) more

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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 411 pp.

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From the Bogside to Namibia: The Place of Community Broadcasting in Post-Conflict Cultural Reconstruction

Paul Moore

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 6, issue 1 (2009), pp. 45-58

"This article has evolved from the author's continuing relationship, as a broadcaster and trainer, with two so-Called community radio stations. One is a community station according to accepted definitions of the global community radio movement, and the other is an example of community radio in a pub ... more

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Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography
Deep Insights

Hans M. Zell

Henry Chakava (introd. essay)

Lochcarron: Hans Zell Publishing, 3rd ed. (2008), xlix, 712 pp.

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Namibia: Zwischen Filmmotiv und Filmwirtschaft. Entwicklung und Zukunftschancen der namibischen Filmindustrie seit der Unabhängigkeit 1990

Susan Karolewski

Babelsberg: Hochschule für Film- und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“. Fachbereich I, Studiengang Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Diplomarbeit (2008), 105 pp.

"Welche Faktoren für die Produktion eines afrikanischen Films in Namibia nötig sind, wird in der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit analysiert. Gegenstand ist die Darstellung der Filmwirtschaft Namibias mit all ihren Aspekten, Vor- und Nachteilen. Sehr konkret wird die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre und des ... more