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Misinformation Literacy of COVID-19 Digital News in Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda
African Journalism Studies, volume 44, issue 2 (2023), pp. 116-133
"Amid a rise of misinformation worldwide, this paper examines digital misinformation literacy as it relates to COVID-19 news in East Africa. The study is grounded in inoculation theory and contributes to the body of scholarship examining misinformation literacy beyond the Western world. Data came fr
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Social Media 4 Peace: Taking Stock of Progress Achieved
Brussels: UNESCO Office Brussels (2023), 3 pp.
"Increased understanding of the root causes, scale, and impact of online harmful content and the effectiveness of the existing frameworks and tools: 10 research reports examining the national legal frameworks governing harmful content [...] Local stakeholders empowered and new cooperation and practi
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric
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Kenya Media Landscape Report
Communications Authority of Kenya (2023), 18 pp.
Orte für die Menschen: Afrikanische Büchereien im Wandel
BiblioTheke: Zeitschrift für katholische Bücherei- und Medienarbeit, issue 4 (2023), pp. 33-35
"Book Bunk, eine Non-Profit-Organisation mit Sitz in Nairobi in Kenia, hat es sich vor fünf Jahren zur Aufgabe gemacht, Büchereien in Nairobi weiterzuentwickeln. Die Idee entstand aus einer Zusammenarbeit mit der McMillan Memorial Library – Nairobis ältester Bibliothek." (Seite 33)
Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2024
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2023), 167 pp.
"In many countries, especially outside Europe and the United States, we find a significant further decline in the use of Facebook for news and a growing reliance on a range of alternatives including private messaging apps and video networks. Facebook news consumption is down 4 percentage points, acr
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State of the Media Survey Report 2023
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2023), xii, 54 pp.
"The Media survey indicates that Television remains the primary source of news, with 47% of respondents indicating it as their go-to platform for staying informed. Following closely is Radio, with 31% of respondents relying on it for news updates. The survey also revealed that Citizen Tv emerged as
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Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxviii, 280 pp.
"Mixed Methods Perspectives on Communication and Social Media Research addresses the need for a discipline-cum-methodology-tailored book that navigates the current research spectrum of communication and social media ("CommSocMed"). It examines contemporary and relevant issues that intertwine the exp
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Towards the harmonization of data collection: A baseline study for e-waste in East Africa
Geneva: ITU (2023), x, 38 pp.
"This study enabled countries in East Africa to produce national statistics on e-waste generated that are harmonized and comparable across countries because the same methods and tools have been used in the assessment. In addition, households and businesses surveys were piloted in Kenya and Burundi t
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The risks of peace: Exploring the relationship between peaceocracy and journalism in Kenya
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 8 (2023), pp. 663-677
"Scholars have recently suggested that a peaceocracy is emerging in nations experiencing intermittent conflicts. A peaceocracy is an institutionalised political strategy – rather than a political system – that aims to promote stability in states considered fragile. While scholars know how the pr
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Kenya Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2023), 21 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the most prolific instances of digital authoritarianism in Kenya. The report will debrief the most relevant actions and decisions taken by the Kenyan government in recent years that leverage the internet and technology in order to achieve certain political goals.
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Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 482 pp.
"Global land and resource grabbing has become an increasingly prominent topic in academic circles, among development practitioners, human rights advocates, and in policy arenas. The Routledge Handbook of Global Land and Resource Grabbing sustains this intellectual momentum by advancing methodologica
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Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 176 pp.
"Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy uses the perceptions of journalists in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya to examine mediascapes at varying stages of development and democracy-building—Rwanda, which experienced a genocide in 1994, is in relatively early (though fast-paced) stages of
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The Future of Television in the Global South: Reflections from Selected Countries
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 233 pp.
"This book explores how television in the global South is 'future-proofing' its continued relevance, addressing its commercial, social and political viability in a constantly changing information ecosystem. The chapter contributions in the book are drawn from countries in East, South and West Africa
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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives
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
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Transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting
Geneva: ITU (2023), 239 pp.
"The purpose of this Report is to help the countries that are in the process of migrating from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. The Report examines the reasons why this is happening and the technologies involved. It provides an overview of digital terrestrial sound and television broadc
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Cryptopolitics: Exposure, Concealment, and Digital Media
New York: Berghahn (2023), vii, 245 pp.
"Hidden information, double meanings, double-crossing, and the constant processes of encoding and decoding messages have always been important techniques in negotiating social and political power dynamics. Yet these tools, "cryptopolitics," are transformed when used within digital media. Focusing on
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Psychological and Physical Lived Experiences of Journalists Covering Terrorism in Kenya
Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, volume 78, issue 2 (2023), pp. 251-266
"This research is based on 28 in-depth interviews with Kenya-based journalists who report terrorism. The objective of the research was to recount their lived experiences. The theme of safety of journalists comprised psychological and physical safety of the newspeople, and there were various ways in
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