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Media and the Pandemic. Adapting to Survive: Radio and Digital Media in Eastern Africa
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media Programme Sub-Sahara Africa (2021), 22 pp.
"[...] Radio is still the region’s most popular medium, especially in rural parts of the region where the majority of the population still live. The little advertisement revenue that still goes to media houses in the region lies in the hands of very few media outlets with a national reach. Most of
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How Kenya’s Media Retooled Peer Review to Address Issues of Trust and Quality in News
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 24 pp.
"Self regulation through peer review is a system whereby journalists hold each other accountable for the quality and accuracy of their content. If the Kenyan experience is anything to go by, this measure can provide an additional layer of scrutiny – additional to a state ombudsman or media houses
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Social Media Usage by Digital Finance Consumers: Analysis of Consumer Complaints in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda. July 2019 - July 2020
Innovations for Poverty Action (ipa) (2021), 36 pp.
"Digital feedback has large potential for consumer protection. The customer experiences shared in the different social media channels have proven to be a rich source of information with the potential of answering a large number of questions. Who will make use of this data and methods going forward,
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Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: A Rights-Based Survey of Legislation in Eight Countries
African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 372 pp.
"Of the eight countries surveyed here, only four have comprehensive data protection privacy acts in place: Kenya, South Africa, Togo and Uganda. But as these research reports suggest, this is not necessarily a strong indicator of whether a country is committed to privacy rights, or of the efficacy o
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Public Participation: An Assessment of Recent ICT Policy Making Processes in Kenya
KICTANet (2021), 29 pp.
"This report assesses the extent to which the public participated in three recent ICT policy and law-making processes. These include the National Information Communications and Technology (ICT) Policy, 2019, the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, 2018, and the Data Protection Act, 2019 [...] Gener
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No Newspapers Here: Information Needs Assessments Among Refugees and Host Communities in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania. Exploratory Phase 2019
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 177 pp.
"When DW Akademie started a new media development project on Refugees and Migration in Africa in 2019, we knew our objective: We wanted to find ways to improve access to information for people affected by displacement, to provide channels for these people to express themselves and to improve the dia
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Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.
"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans
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Media Monitoring Report on Gambling & Gaming Activities on Media in Kenya
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), viii, 27 pp.
Sexual Harassment in the Media: Africa Report
Paris: World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2021), 51 pp.
"Almost half of women respondents had been sexually harassed at work (47%). Women were twice as likely to experience sexual harassment at work than men. For one in two women, the harassment was verbal (56%), and for one in three, it was physical (38%). Only 30% of cases of sexual harassment were eve
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Digital News Report 2021
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.
"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Africa States region
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 64 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the comparative innovation capacity of the Africa region through ICT-centric Innovation policy monitors and shares insights about good practices strengthening the capacity to integrate ICT innovation in national development agendas. Overall, although sub-Saharan
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Media and the Coronavirus Pandemic in Africa (Part One)
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2021), pp. 133-299
The Politics of Pulpit Religiosity in the Era of Covid-19 in Kenya
Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 616288 (2021), 9 pp.
"This essay centres on the role of religion in the era of Covid-19. We juxtapose social media and religious practices in a way that challenges the conventional religion of the pulpit to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions around spirituality in the era of Covid-19. We show the transformation of
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"This practical guide aims to provide journalists with concrete legal tools to deal with online harassment, be it to identify punishable offences, to seek help from appropriate organisations, to efficiently gather evidence and to take steps should they decide to file a complaint against the perpetra
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Assessing the Barriers to Accessing ICT by People with Disability in Kenya
Kampala: CIPESA (2021), 24 pp.
"This report has documented the surveillance measures and practices in Kenya and Uganda during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. The key trends include poor oversight over COVID-19 data collection, the lack of independent data protection authorities, the use of telecommunications data to ‘t
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State of the Media Survey Report 2021
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2021), xii, 46 pp.
"The survey found that 58% of Kenyans interviewed consume TV content on a typical day. This translates to approximately 16,740,493 Kenyans aged above 15 years who consume TV content. This is a drop from 74% of the respondents recorded in the 2020 survey. Across the regions, 60% of persons in North E
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Mobile Assemblages and Maendeleo in Rural Kenya
Bamenda: Langaa (2021), 208 pp.
"In this book, Leah Komen explores the impact of mobile telephony on the lives of people in rural Kenya. The book analyses the outcomes of complex intersections and interactions between mobile phones, individuals, and the broader society as distinct from the traditional cause-effect relationships in
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