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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

Stanley Tsarwe, Sarah Chiumbu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.

"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b ... more

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Does Internet development affect urban-rural income gap in China? An empirical investigation at provincial level

Meiling Wang, Zihui Yin, Silu Pang, Zilian Li

Information Development, volume 39, issue 1 (2023), pp. 107-122

"This study aims to examine the impact of Internet development on the urban-rural income gap in China. By using a provincial level panel dataset comprising 31 of China’s provinces, it analyzes and compares the effects of the eastern, central, and western regions over the period of 2005–2016. The ... more

Digital Cities and Villages: African Writers and a Sense of Place in Short Online Fiction

Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 15, issue 2 (2023), pp. 217-229

"This article analyses how young African writers challenge stereotypes about the continent through their imagination of places in online short stories. These stories appear on the literary websites Brittle Paper, Jalada, Saraba, Flash Fiction Ghana, Adda and African Writer Magazine with a focus on c ... more

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Critical Gaps and Implications of Risk Communication in the Global Agreements SFDRR, SDGs, and UNFCCC: 3 Select Case Studies from Urban Areas of Tropics in South Asia

Shabana Khan, Jyoti Mishra

Natural Hazards, issue 111 (2022), pp. 2559-2577

"There has been a consistent rise in urban disasters, particularly in developing countries located in tropical areas. Among various challenges of disaster risk management and climate change impacts, it is noted that most residents are poorly informed about their risk exposure or apposite response. T ... more

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Information Ecosystem Assessment: Flow, Needs & Access in Ethiopia. The Case of Addis Ababa and Gambella

Internews;USAID (2021), 119 pp.

"To gain a comprehensive understanding of both urban and peri/urban/rural locations, the assessment was conducted in two locations in Ethiopia: Gambella Region and Addis Ababa City Administration. A total of 240 respondents participated in the assessment, of which about one-third are female. The fin ... more

Digitalization for Development? Challenges for Developing Countries

Wien: Österreichische Forschungsstiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (ÖFSE) (2020), pp. 25-81

Listening Into Others: An Ethnographic Exploration in Govindpuri

Tripta Chandola

Institute of Network Cultures (2020), 149 pp.

"The essays collected here are based on two decades of engagement with the residents of the slums of Govindpuri in India’s capital, Delhi. The book presents stories of many kinds, from speculative treatises, via the recollection of a thousand everyday conversations, to an account of the making of ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication

Zlatan Krajina, Deborah Stevenson (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2020), xviii, 488 pp.

"The Routledge companion to urban media and communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication. The volume brings together key interdisciplinary perspectives and global case studies to map key areas of research within medi ... more

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Searching for a New Kenya: Politics and Social Media on the Streets of Mombasa

Stephanie Diepeveen

Cambridge: University of Cambridge (2020), xi, 270 pp.

"Searching for a New Kenya analyses public discussion in urban Kenya, focusing on the gatherings of citizens, both in-person and online, where people discuss issues of common concern to shed light on the role public discussion plays in politics and how social media affects political movements. Throu ... more

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Catalysing Social Change in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Evaluating the LIN Model of Participatory Community Development

Chau Doan-Bao, Evangelia Papoutsaki, Giles Dodson

Community Development Journal, volume 54, issue 3 (2019), pp. 519-540

"In communication for social change, a catalyst can play an important role in creating dialogue within the community, leading to collective actions and providing solutions for common problems. In urban communities of developing countries, this role is more essential because of the complexities of ur ... more

Numérique, espaces et sociétés en Afrique

Dabié Désiré Axel Nassa (ed.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 403 pp.

Humanitarianism 2.0

Guillaume Bazerli, Theresa Bean, Angela Crandall et al.

Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.

"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio ... more

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Making News in Global India: Media, Publics, Politics

Sahana Udupa

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015), xiii, 278 pp.

"Through an ethnography of English and Kannada print news media in Bangalore, this ambitious and innovative new study reveals how the expanding private news culture played a critical role in shaping urban transformation in India, when the allegedly public profession of journalism became both an obje ... more

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Ghanaian Entertainment Brokers: Urban Change, and Afro-Cosmopolitanism, with Neo-Liberal Reform

Oliver Thalén

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 227-240

"This article deals with entertainment in the neo-liberal age. The key aim is to describe the emerging brokering practices of certain entrepreneurs within the entertainment industry in Ghana, and to explore the effects of these practices. On the one hand these entrepreneurs receive sponsorship from ... more

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Localizing the Internet: An Anthropological Account

John R. Postill

New York et al.: Berghahn (2011), xxv, 150 pp.

"Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, this study offers an in-depth examination of the workings of the Internet at the local level. In fact, Subang Jaya is regarded as Ma ... more

Pamoja FM – The voice of Kibera. How young Kenyan adults in Kibera perceive the local urban community radio and how it influences the community

Sebastian Nyström, Anton Rosenblad

Linnaeus University (2011), 59 pp.

"In Kibera, the biggest slum area in Nairobi and in whole East Africa, the urban slum community radio station Pamoja FM only works for the citizens living within Kibera. We aimed to find out how the youth in Kibera perceive the efficacy of the radio station as a viable source of news and information ... more

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Foundations of African Communication with Examples from Yorùbá Culture

Joseph Oládèjo Fáníran

Ibadan: Spectrum Books (2008), xiv, 317 pp.

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