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A Polycentric Broadcasting Model: Radio and the Promotion of Portuguese Colonialism
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 10-25
"The article demonstrates how Portugal lacked a true policy of imperial broadcasting which led it to become dependent on colonial stations for the dissemination of colonialism. The broadcasters established in the Portuguese Empire dedicated significant airtime to the dissemination of Portugal’s co
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Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoamérica
Quito: CIESPAL (2022), 304 pp.
"Con el número 150 que presentamos en esta ocasión celebramos sus 50 años, con un monográfico especial sobre la veta del pensamiento crítico latinoamericano, que lleva el título de "Diálogos críticos y perspectivas actuales de investigación y pensamiento sobre comunicación en Latinoaméric
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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War
Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.
"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an
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Afrika und die Welt: Betrachtungen zur Globalgeschichte Afrikas in der Neuzeit
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2022), 335 pp.
"Bis heute hält sich der globale Norden für kompetent, Erwartungen an Afrika zu formulieren und dessen Entwicklungen zu bewerten Der Afrikawissenschaftler Arno Sonderegger zeichnet nach, wie Europäer aus imaginierter Überlegenheit heraus über Jahrhunderte den Sklavenhandel aus Afrika betrieben
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Visual Cultures of Africa
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp.
"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre
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Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 177-180
"Ûiiti (‘the treatment’) is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the 'nzevu', a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
"This book explores Gandhi's engagement with print news media. It examines how Gandhi, the man and his message, negotiated with the sociopolitical circumstances of his milieu and the methods of communication that he adopted towards this end. It analyses the role that he played in building up alterna
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The Handbook of Global Interventions in Communication Theory
New York; London: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 515 pp.
"Moving beyond the U.S.-Eurocentric paradigm of communication theory, this handbook broadens the intellectual horizons of the discipline by highlighting underrepresented, especially non-Western, theorists and theories, and identifies key issues and challenges for future scholarship. Showcasing diver
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African Data Trusts: New Tools Towards Collective Data Governance?
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.
"This paper discusses whether data trusts are feasible structures in an African context, concluding that there are significant limitations to a straight import of trust models developed elsewhere. It goes on to outline specific considerations that should be prioritised in the development of bottom u
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Comunicación (re)humanizadora: Ruta decolonial
Quito: Ediciones CIESPAL (2022), 220 pp.
Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 4 (2022), pp. 848-859
"This article seeks to contribute and engage with debates pertaining to epistemology, knowledge production, and positionality of ‘International Communication Studies’ (ICS) in sub-Saharan Africa. The study operates on the assumption that International Communication studies in most Sub-Saharan Af
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From Research to Action: The Practice of Decolonizing ICT4D
Information Technology for Development, volume 28, issue 3 (2022), pp. 443-450
"The production of knowledge in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) research has been characterized by an ongoing shift from dominantly Western-based to Indigenous theory formulations. This editorial puts forward core concepts in the decolonization of ICT4D, arguing that
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Decolonising Political Communication in Africa: Reframing Ontologies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2022), xxviii, 226 pp.
"This book uses decolonisation as a lens to interrogate political communication styles, performance, and practice in Africa and the diaspora. The book interrogates the theory and practice of political communication, using decolonial research methods to begin a process of self-reflexivity and the cre
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From “communicating” to “engagement”: Afro-Relationality as a Conceptual Framework for Climate Change Communication in Africa
Journal of Media Ethics, volume 36, issue 1 (2021), pp. 36-50
"This study interrogates the conventional understanding of and practice within mediated climate change communication (CCC) as a forum where transformative ideas on sustainability practices are shaped. Besides the dominance of non-African contexts and epistemologies in literature analyzing the media-
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Subordinating Freedom of Expression to Human Dignity: Promoting or Undermining Journalism—A Case of Zimbabwe
African Journalism Studies, volume 42, issue 2 (2021), pp. 43-58
"Motivated by a 2014 Constitutional Court opinion that under Zimbabwe’s new constitution of 2013, freedom of expression might have to be considered as subordinate to human dignity, the study analyses the implications of this on journalistic practice. The study argues that such a move would undermi
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African Communication Systems and the Digital Age
London et al.: Routledge (2021), 164 pp.
"African Communication Systems and the Digital Age contextualizes communication by bringing to the table African contributions to the field, examining the importance of African indigenous forms of communication and the intersection of African communication systems and the digital age. The book cover
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Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxiii, 381 pp.
"This book advances alternative approaches to understanding media, culture and technology in two vibrant regions of the Global South. Bringing together scholars from Africa and the Caribbean, it traverses the domains of communication theory, digital technology strategy, media practice reforms, and c
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The Evolution of Popular Communication in Latin America
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xv, 234 pp.
"This book brings together twelve contributions that trace the empirical-conceptual evolution of Popular Communication, associating it mainly with the context of inequalities in Latin America and with the creative and collective appropriation of communication and knowledge technologies as a strategy
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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans
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