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The Role of Malawi Broadcasting Corporation Staffers in Mediating Malawi's Ideological Nation-Building Project: The Case of 'Speak Out'
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 141-158
"The Malawi Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) was established as Malawi's first national radio station when the country gained independence from Britain in 1964, partly with an ideological function of mobilising Malawians for the task of nation building. Since its inception, the broadcaster has been ac
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La communication des organisations publiques
Bruxelles: De Boeck, 2nd ed. (2017), 304 pp.
Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria: Final Evaluation
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 47 pp.
"In a highly competitive media landscape, BBC Media Action’s governance programmes reached 52.8 million people in 2014 (and an estimated 64.6 million cumulatively), representing more than half the adult population of the country. One reason for this success was the brokering of radio partnerships
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Digitale Öffentlichkeit: Wie algorithmische Prozesse den gesellschaftlichen Diskurs beeinflussen
Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Stiftung (2017), 85 pp.
"Von algorithmischen Prozessen gesteuerte Intermediäre wie Google oder Facebook haben im Vergleich zu redaktionell gesteuerten Medien wie dem Fernsehen einen großen, aber bislang nicht entscheidenden Einfluss auf die öffentliche Meinungsbildung. Sie bewerten die Relevanz von Inhalten viel stärke
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"Alarmingly, the research reveals that fake news is a pervasive problem surrounding the Kenyan elections with 90% of respondents having seen false or inaccurate information and 87% viewing this information as being deliberately false. Why does this matter? An informed citizenry is vital to Kenya’s
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First Level Agenda-Setting: A Study of Press Vs. Public Opinion in Kenya
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 26-49
"The present research examines media agenda setting effects in a Kenyan context in 2013 and 2014. Specifically, focusing on the first level of agenda setting, the study investigates whether two national daily newspapers influenced public opinion on six issues of national importance: corruption, devo
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District Thailand: Identification, Spectatorship, and The Hunger Games in Thailand
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 88-107
"On May 22nd 2014, The Kingdom of Thailand experienced its latest successful military coup. A few months later, in November 2014, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 was released in Thai cinemas sparking new protests using symbols from the series. With this article, I seek to examine the reception o
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Arab Women and the Media in Changing Landscapes
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), xxv, 277 pp.
"Maestri and Profanter highlight that the methodological approaches adopted in this volume are both interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary. Focusing on the changing relationship between the dynamics of Arab communication spaces and the role of Arab women both in and through the media, the introduct
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Live from the Bully Pulpit: The Abuse of Obligatory Presidential Broadcasts in Latin America
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017)
"In Latin America, several countries’ laws permit the president to commandeer all radio and television broadcasts. Initially contemplated for use in rare circumstances such as national emergencies, a few leaders in the region, beginning with Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez, have taken advantage of thes
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De l’utilisation d’Internet en République démocratique du Congo: Un outil de mobilisation politique et religieuse
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 105-123
"En République démocratique du Congo (RDC), le Web constitue, depuis le dernier mandat constitutionnel du président Joseph Kabila au pouvoir depuis 2001, un espace d’affrontements politiques par le biais des discours religieux, ou par leaders religieux interposés. Alors que le président Kabil
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Media Power in Indonesia: Oligarchs, Citizens and the Digital Revolution
London; New York: Rowman & Littlefield (2017), xxix, 172 pp.
"Indonesia is undergoing a process of rapid change, with an affluent middle class due to hit 141 million people by 2020. While official statistics suggest that internet penetration is low, over 70 million Indonesians have a Facebook account, the fourth highest group in the world. Jakarta is the Twit
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Using Digital and Social Media to Monitor and Reduce Violence in Kenya’s Elections
Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 4 pp.
"Social media and digital technology offer immense potential for citizens, policymakers and practitioners to raise awareness of, monitor, and respond to violence. With Kenya’s elections approaching, technology can help to raise awareness of insecurity, support early warning, combat incitement of v
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Media Resistance: Dislike, Protest, Abstention
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2017), vii, 153 pp.
"While there is strong continuity in the values that resisters perceive to be at stake, there are also profound changes. One important change is that media resistance increasingly has moved from the political to the personal domain. Three explanations are offered for how media resistance is sustaine
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Radio and Revolution
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86
"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa
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Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xiv, 276 pp.
"Building on critical theory, most notably Herman and Chomsky's Propaganda Model, Florian Zollmann's pioneering study brings propaganda back to the forefront of the debate. On the basis of a forensic examination of 1,911 newspaper articles, Zollmann investigates US, UK and German media reporting of
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Can the Internet Strengthen Democracy?
Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA: Polity (2017), viii, 142 pp.
"In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of o
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Doing Debate Differently: Media and Accountability
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 34 pp.
"This paper discusses a number of ways in which media plays a part in increasing accountability. It draws on quantitative and qualitative data from BBC Media Action’s work in nine countries. It finds that: media can influence accountability by empowering people, creating opportunities for construc
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Public Trust in Elections: The Role of Media Freedom and Election Management Autonomy
Accra: Afrobarometer (2017), 24 pp.
"Very few cross-national studies have examined the consequences of electoral manipulation, including the manipulation of election administration and the media, on citizens’ trust in elections. This paper addresses this gap by exploring how autonomy of election management bodies (EMBs) and media fr
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Turn Up the Volume: Empowering Women Through Media. Lessons from BBC Media Action’s Governance Programming
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 26 pp.
"This practice briefing sets out what BBC Media Action has learned about how media can provide a platform for both men and women to hold their leaders to account, while empowering them to participate in their own communities. Unpicking the challenges faced and the solutions found, it will bring toge
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