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African Media and Communication: Foundational Conversations
Oxford; New York: Routledge (2025), 380 pp.
"This book provides an important set of critical reflections from a selection of foundational scholars of African media and communication studies through biographical method. The book interrogates the center of mainstream academic scholarship by providing the foundational history and origins of an A
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Data Sharing to Foster Information as a Public Good: The Case of Media Viability and Safety of Journalists in the Digital Ecosystem
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.
"Trends towards greater transparency of platforms, in the form of extending cooperation around data, offer benefit to the interests of all stakeholders. This policy brief considers the normative, institutional and technical mechanisms that support access to datasets that are not accessible generally
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Platform Problems and Regulatory Solutions: Findings from a Comprehensive Review of Existing Studies and Investigations
Quick Overview
Paris: UNESCO;Research ICT Africa (2023), 17 pp.
"The proliferation of hate speech and disinformation on online platforms has serious implications for human rights, trust and safety as per international human rights law and standards. The mutually-reinforcing determinants of the problems are: ‘attention economics’; automated advertising system
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Disinformation in the Global South
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Guy Berger (foreword)
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2022), xxv, 237 pp.
"In many parts of the Global South, coordinated political disinformation campaigns, rumor, and propaganda have long been a part of the social fabric, even before disinformation has become an area of scholarship in the Global North. The way disinformation manifests in this region, and responses to it
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Pounding Pavements Knocking on Doors: Campaign for Access to Information in Africa ... Another Gift to the World
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 77 pp.
"This publication is a collection of essays and articles by Access to Information advocates in Africa unpacking some of the successes, hopes & struggles, and ongoing challenges to the full realization of the right to information in Africa." (Publisher description)
Towards Sustainable Journalism in Sub-Saharan Africa: Policy Brief
Fojo Media Institute;Consortium to Promote Human Rights, Civic Freedoms and Media Development (CHARM) Africa, 2nd ed. (2021), 36 pp.
"Sustainable journalism addresses two intertwined challenges of our time: * The sustainability crisis of society, e.g. environmental crises, democratic crises, poverty, financial crises, armed conflicts, etc. Obviously, journalism has a crucial role to play here since it contributes greatly to the p
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Impact of COVID-19 on Media Freedom, Journalist Safety and Media Viability in Southeast Asia
Public Media Alliance;UNESCO;Asia Democracy Network (ADN) (2021), 141 pp.
"This Situation Report on the “Impact of COVID-19 on Media Freedom, Media Business Viability, and the Safety of Journalists in Southeast Asia” offers an insight into the key impacts of the pandemic on the media across nine countries. The report proposes recommendations for enabling sustainable a
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New Opportunities in Monitoring Safety of Journalists through the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-88
"This article highlights the potential for increased and more standardised monitoring of a range of aspects of the safety of journalists. This is in the light of a specific indicator that has been agreed by the UN as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The indicator concerned treats th
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Getting from the global to the local: Norms and systems for protecting journalists in the times of the Sustainable Development Goals
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 10 pp.
"In the wake of progress in underlining international norms for protection of journalists, UNESCO in 2017 initiated a global consultation on how to strengthen implementation of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. The results of this consultation are relevant
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Safety of Journalists Covering Conflict & Sensitive Issues
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 103 pp.
International Media Development: Historical Perspectives and New Frontiers
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New York et al.: Peter Lang (2019), xv, 277 pp.
"This collection is the first of its kind on the topic of media development. It brings together luminary thinkers in the field—both researchers and practitioners—to reflect on how advocacy groups, researchers, the international community and others can work to ensure that media can continue to s
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UNESCO's safety of journalists agenda: What impact?
Australian Journalism Review, volume 40, issue 2 (2018), pp. 29-35
"Mention journalists' safety in a conversation, and the spontaneous mental image is often that of a war correspondent. However, in 2017 at least, 55 per cent of the killings of journalists registered by UNESCO were not in countries with significant armed conflict (UNESCO, 2018a). In addition, and as
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Why the World Became Concerned with Journalistic Safety, and Why the Issue Will Continue to Attract Attention
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 33-44
"There is a history to why the challenge of securing safety for journalism has become a prominent issue in many parts of the world. This is partly because of increased attacks on journalists, but it is also a function of global developments that have afforded space for the issue to come to fore as a
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The Routledge Companion to Media and Human Rights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xix, 520 pp.
"The Companion is the first collection to bring together two distinct ways of thinking about human rights and media, including scholarship that examines media as a human right alongside that which looks at media coverage of human rights issues. This international collection of 49 newly written piece
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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
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Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.
"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues
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Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations
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Austin, Tex.: Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas;World Journalism Education Council (2017), xviii, 468 pp.
Mapping Digital Media: South Africa
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 120 pp.
"Developments in digital media in South Africa are densely intertwined with political factors. The Government has sought to be the driver of digitization, but it has also caused repeated delays in digital roll-out. In addition, the Government has had contradictory interests such as promoting competi
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Foundations of Community Journalism
Los Angeles et al.: Sage (2012), xix, 283 pp.
"Foundations of Community Journalism is the first and only book to focus on how to understand and conduct research in this ever-increasing field. With chapters written by established journalism scholars and teachers, this book provides students and researchers with an understanding of the multiple m
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Media in Africa 20 Years On: Our Past, Present and Future. Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press
Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 41 pp.
"This review set out to analyse the Windhoek Declaration and its significance. Central to this has been the recognition of how journalistic idealism runs throughout the history since 1991. Independence, pluralism and freedom as Windhoek values that nourish journalism are not ends in themselves, but
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Media in Africa: Twenty Years After the Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom
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Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 190 pp.
"What has been the state-of-play for African media in the 20 years since the historic Windhoek Declaration of 1991 which gave rise to World Press Freedom Day every 3 May? And what can be expected over the next decade? More than 70 commentators illuminate the trajectory in a range of contributions in
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