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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Afghanistan: Final Evaluation

Anna Godfrey, Georgina Page, Ahmad Tamim Sharifzai

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 59 pp.

"In 2012 the opportunity for ordinary Afghans to communicate with political authorities or hold them to account was extremely limited. To help address this BBC Media Action worked with state broadcaster Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and the BBC Afghan Service to co-produce the TV and radio nati ... more

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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Kenya: Final Evaluation

Catharine Buckell, Sopie Baskett

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 59 pp.

"Funded by DFID, under the Global Grant project, BBC Media Action produced three seasons of the weekly TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks). Sema Kenya featured a moderated discussion between a live panel of officials and an audience of ‘ordinary’ Kenyans and was designed to enable i ... ndividuals, communities and governments to be better informed and more engaged in tackling governance challenges. Alongside this, BBC Media Action delivered a mentoring programme, initially with six local radio stations, and later with the national broadcaster Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), which has the largest footprint in the country. Through this work, BBC Media Action aimed to strengthen the capacity of Kenya’s media sector to produce governance programming that supported and mainstreamed the overall objectives of the project at both the local and national level. [...] Sema Kenya contributed to people being more informed about and engaged in politics. Audiences were more knowledgeable about politics, discussed it more with friends and family, felt more confident in their ability to influence political processes and participated more in governance related activities (particularly at the community level) – all factors that support bottom-up accountability. Audiences themselves linked Sema Kenya with these outcomes. This finding was validated by analysis confirming a significant positive relationship between watching or listening to Sema Kenya and consistently higher knowledge, discussion and confidence to engage in politics, even when taking into account other factors that might influence these outcomes (such as education, age and interest in politics). While Sema Kenya’s audience was more likely to participate in politics, qualitative research respondents rarely attributed their actions directly to what they had heard on Sema Kenya. This reflects findings from advanced quantitative analysis (structural equation modelling) that suggests the link between Sema Kenya and increased political participation is indirect and mediated by political knowledge, discussion and self-efficacy. Supported by an extensive network of broadcast partners that stretched across all 47 counties in Kenya, the discussion programme reached an estimated 12.7 million people over three seasons, with a peak audience of 5.7 million in 2013 – the year of the general election. The show also maintained a loyal audience throughout all three seasons, with around half of all those reached annually tuning in for at least every second episode." (Executive summary, pages 6-7) more

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Health Information and Monitoring Among Qatari Adolescents

Klaus Schoenbach, Marium Saeed Ellen Wartella et al.

Doha: Northwestern University in Qatar (2017), 63 pp.

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Mobile is a Lifeline: Research from Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, Tanzania

London: GSMA (2017), 47 pp.

"This report explores the socio-economic impact of connectivity for refugees in a large, rural camp setting in Tanzania. Nyarugusu is one of three large refugee camps in the Kigoma region. Established in 1996, it now hosts more than 136,000 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Bu ... more

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Digital News Report 2017

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2017), 133 pp.

"The report is based on a survey of more than 70,000 people in 36 markets, along with additional qualitative research, which together make it the most comprehensive ongoing comparative study of news consumption in the world. A key focus remains in Europe where we have added Slovakia, Croatia, and Ro ... more

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Fatwa on Satellite TV and the Development of Islamic Religious Discourse

Noureddine Miladi, Saleh Karim, Mahroof Athambawa

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 10, issue 2 (2017), pp. 129-152

"Satellite TV and the Internet revolutions have reinvigorated religious discourse in public spaces. Across the world, religious TV channels and Internet religious websites have taken up the roles of traditional religious spaces such as churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras and temples. Islamic re ... more

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Media Consumption in Turkey

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2017), 2 pp.

"About two-thirds of Turkish adults (65.0%) currently say they go online for news at least weekly. Among Kurdish speakers, that figure is much higher at 70.8%. Half of all residents (50.2%) say they use newspapers or magazines for news every week. While four in five adults (80.5%) say they get news ... more

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Syria Audience Research 2016

Anke Fiedler, Bart Veenstra, Dirk Spilker

Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT); Free Press Unlimited (2016), 82 pp.

"In Syria, television is the dominant media type with high usage and availability rates in all areas studied. Television is followed by online media, print media, and finally radio. Media aligned with the Syrian government are leading in government-controlled areas, and opposition-aligned media are ... more

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Audience Perceptions of Radio Stations and Journalists in the Great Lakes Region

Marie-Soleil Frère

In: Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2016), pp. 113-139

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Usos y actitudes hacia los celulares

Lima: GfK Perú (2016), 24 pp.

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Exploring the Role of Communication in Community Health

Annabelle Wittels

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 48 pp.

"This report draws on two studies: first, a nationally representative quantitative survey, and, second, a qualitative study across three locations in Sierra Leone [...] Ninety-five per cent of research participants reported accessing health information in the previous three months – 93% receiving ... more

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Mediennutzung von Menschen mit Behinderungen: Forschungsbericht

Ingo Bosse, Uwe Hasebrink et al.

Berlin; Bonn; Dortmund; Hamburg: Die Medienanstalten; Aktion Mensch; Technische Universität Dortmund; Hans-Bredow-Institut (2016), 150 pp.

"Insgesamt wird deutlich, dass mit einer Beeinträchtigung weiterhin spezifische Risiken in der Mediennutzung durch Zugangs- und Teilhabebarrieren einhergehen. Die bedeutsamsten Handlungsfelder für die Gestaltung von Inklusionsprozessen durch mediale Teilhabe und die größten Handlungsbedarfe aufg ... more

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Audiencia radial nacional rural: 83% de la población rural escucha radio

Lima: CPI (2016), 3 pp.

"El 83,1% de las personas de 11 a más años a nivel nacional rural escuchan radio por lo menos una vez a la semana y lo hacen principalmente a través de emisoras locales de FM y AM, alcanzando estas emisoras al 69,6% de la población rural con 12 horas en promedio de escucha semanal, este mayor al ... more

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Learning Through Entertainment: The Effects of Bollywood Movies on the Job-Seeking Behavior of South Asian Female

Azmat Rasul, Arthur A. Raney

International Communication Gazette, volume 78, issue 3 (2016), pp. 267-287

"This study examined the relationship between exposure to Bollywood movies and job-seeking behavior of South Asian females. Using survey data collected from 132 female participants, we explored the effects of exposure to Bollywood movies on job search self-efficacy, enjoyment and job-seeking behavio ... more

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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda

Hannah Mathews

Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.

"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)

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Assessing Russia’s Influence in its Periphery

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2016), 40 slides

"Russian speakers in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania rank Kremlin-backed media as the least trustworthy among international, Russian Federation and domestic news sources, according to research presented by the Broadcasting Board of Governors. In addition, only those survey respondents who considered R ... more

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Final Evaluation for ‘Communicating for Peace in South Sudan: A Social and Behaviour Change Communication Initiative’, Bor, Juba and Wau, South Sudan

UNICEF; Search for Common Ground; Forcier Consulting (2016), viii, 54 pp.

"Project locations experienced general improvement with regards to social cohesion and conflict resolution. This was particularly the case in Wau, where results were encouraging. In contrast, Bor continued to feature more negative results than other project locations, although the county saw importa ... more

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Digital News Report 2016

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, David A. L. Levy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), 109 pp.

"This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and ... more

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Flucht 2.0: Mediennutzung durch Flüchtlinge vor, während und nach der Flucht

Martin Emmer, Carola Richter, Marlene Kunst

Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (2016), 86 pp.

"Anhand einer repräsentativen Umfrage mit 404 Flüchtlingen, die vorwiegend aus Syrien, Irak, Afghanistan, Pakistan und Iran kamen, liefert die vorliegende Studie erstens Erkenntnisse dazu, wie sich Flüchtlinge in ihren Herkunftsländern, auf ihrem Fluchtweg und in Deutschland Informationen versch ... more

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Use of Mobile Phones by the Rural Poor: Gender Perspectives from Selected Asian Countries

Gerard Sylvester (ed.)

Bangkok: FAO; LIRNEasia; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), xii, 51 pp.

"A qualitative study was conducted in Indonesia and Sri Lanka to understand the varied perceptions on the use and ownership of mobile phones [...] The study was conducted amongst four groups of people (urban men, urban women, rural men, and rural women) in each of two countries. The study found that ... more