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Fridays of Rage: Al Jazeera, the Arab Spring, and Political Islam
New York: Oxford University Press (2017), xxii, 309 pp.
"This book gives readers a glimpse into how Al Jazeera has strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public. In addition to heralding a new era of Arab democracy, Al Jazeera has become a major infl
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World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development: Global Report 2017/2018
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 200 pp.
"We have noted profound transformations in the field of media freedom, which is making progress in certain areas, but losing ground in others. Media freedom is limited in particular by many legal restrictions on the right to impart information and ideas, although progress is being made with regard t
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The Evolution of Political Blogging in French-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2017), 8 pp.
"Political blogging in Francophone Africa is quite a recent phenomenon. Most bloggers are journalists and use their blogs to practice writing and/or report affairs they can’t cover in the mainstream media. A blog is therefore a tool for the publication of content to inform the users of development
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The Fake News Machine: How Propagandists Abuse the Internet and Manipulate the Public
Trend Micro (2017), 80 pp.
"The term “fake news” became increasingly common during the past year. While this concept has many synonyms—disinformation campaigns, cyber propaganda, cognitive hacking, and information warfare—it’s just one facet of the bigger problem: the manipulation of public opinion to affect the rea
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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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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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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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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S
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The Political Economy of Climate Change Reporting in Nigeria
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 40-65
"While scholarly inquiries into the coverage of climate change in Africa are growing, there appears to be a dearth of studies focusing on how the political economy shapes the coverage. This qualitative study addresses this gap by exploring how vested interests, corruption and declining advertising r
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Questioning the Media-Democracy Link: South African Journalists’ Views
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 104-128
"It is often assumed that a robust, free and independent media will contribute to the deepening of democracy by keeping governments accountable and broadening citizen participation in deliberative democratic debates. But in new democracies such as South Africa, the deepening and broadening of democr
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Intermediality of Images: A Semiotic Analysis of the ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’ Images on Social Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 33-48
"The protests that took place in Nigeria due to removal of fuel subsidy by the Jonathan administration in January 2012, tagged ‘Occupy Nigeria Protest’, have been labelled the social media revolution by the conventional media commentators in the country. For the first time in the history of the
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Formation of Citizenship Through Radio Talk Participation in Kenya
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 181-194
"This article aims at investigating the relationship between the concept of mediated citizenship and participation through radio talk deliberation. It intends to offer an analysis of the content mediated through public discourses by determining the way in which participants draw their identities thr
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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are
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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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Politisches Framing: Wie eine Nation sich ihr Denken einredet - und daraus Politik macht
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2017), 222 pp.
"Elisabeth Wehling zeigt anhand zahlreicher Erkenntnisse der modernen Neuro- und Kognitionsforschung, wie über Sprache und die jeweils adressierten Frames Assoziationen geweckt, Meinungen gelenkt und Handlungen bestimmt werden können: So müssen beispielsweise im geläufigen Jargon Steuern aufgebr
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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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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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State, Media and Pluralism: Tracing Roots and Consequences of Media Policy Change in Poland
Publizistik, volume 62, issue 2 (2017), pp. 197-213
"Recent media policy developments in Poland attract wide media coverage and the attention of governmental and non-governmental international and national organisations and bodies. This article aims at putting the debated regulatory changes into a relevant context through policy analysis. The normati
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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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De la "Radio banane" à La Voix de la révolution: L'expérience radiophonique en Guinée
Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 132 pp.
"L’expérience radiophonique en Guinée a connu trois grandes périodes. Lors de la première, de 1950 à 1955, la radio était au service de la métropole, afin de servir les intérêts exclusifs des planteurs européens, franco-syriens et franco-libanais. Elle donnait des informations sur le mou
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