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How to Break Digital Colonialism in African Software Development
ICTworks, March 5 (2025)
"The promise of technology as a vehicle for African economic development often comes wrapped in the values and norms of the Global North. Western-designed software, pervasive across the Continent, reflects ideologies that may not align with indigenous African values. Digital colonialism is the enfor
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Journalism Practices in Western and Muslim Majority Countries: Culture Matters
International Journal of Press/Politics (2024), ?? pp.
"In this article, we suggest that the ideological cultural forces explain the differences in journalism practices in Western and Muslim majority countries (MMC). It is argued that the norms, values, and the deep political culture of the West and MMC have been materialized leading to different types
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The Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods Strands in Media Development
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 14 pp.
"This paper exams the theory and practice of media development by differentiating two major models: The good governance and the sustainable livelihoods strand. Based on this the author questions how governments, organizations, and civil society today collaboratively rethink and organize media system
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers
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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123
"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in
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Media in Africa: Political, Cultural and Theoretical Trajectories in the Global Environment
International Communication Gazette, volume 71, issue 6 (2009), pp. 473-489
"This article tackles assumptions made by Louise Bourgault in her pioneering book, Mass Media in Sub-Saharan Africa. The article discusses her claims about African journalism in relation to her engagement with Western approaches, and with regard to issues of orality, the Shannon and Weaver communica
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Retelling the News in Central Europe: Western Journalism as Democratic Discourse
In: Nationalist Myths and Modern Media: Contested Identities in the Age of Globalization
J. H. Brinks; Stella Rock; Edward Timms (eds.)
London: Tauris (2006), pp. 39-54
"This paper has shown that media assistance donors to Central Europe misplaced their emphasis on the trainign of journalistic craft skills as a principal means of introducing what they rather uncritically called 'democratic journalism' to post-Communist societies. There are many narrative choices in
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Concepts of Journalism: North and South
Bonn: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), reprint (1995), 261 pp.
