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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation
Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute; Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.
"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s
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Journalisme pour la paix et résolution de conflit dans les médias, tome 2 = Peace journalism and conflict resolution in the media = Periodismo de paz y resolución de conflictos en medios
Paris: Les Editions de l'Immatériel; ORBICOM (2018), 296 pp.
"Nouvel ouvrage de la collection Ecritures du Monde, cet ouvrage a été réalisé dans le cadre des rencontres annuelles des Chaires UNESCO en communication ORBICOM. Les objectifs de la rencontre annuelle étaient les suivants : 1) Identifier et analyser les conflits culturels et communicationnels
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Newsmaking Cultures in Africa: Normative Trends in the Dynamics of Socio-Political and Economic Struggles
Deep Insights
London: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxv, 396 pp.
"The volume digs beneath the standardised and universalised veneer of professionalism to unpack routine practices and normative trends shaped by local factors, including the structural conditions of deprivation, entrenched political instability (and interference), pervasive neo-patrimonial governanc
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Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp.
"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza
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Media Reforms and Democratization in Emerging Democracies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), 186 pp.
"This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria’s emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of dependency approaches resulting from the transplanting of policy framework from the West into these
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Nigerian Newspapers: The Attractions and Drawbacks of Foreign Aid Funding
African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 30-41
"This article looks at the relationship between four major newspapers in Nigeria and foreign donors. The discussion centres on the attractions and drawbacks of foreign donor funding from these newspapers’ point of view and highlights points of convergence and divergence in the agendas of the newsp
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Status of Training and Research in Reporting Conflict, Peace Journalism and Safety Education in English Speaking West Africa: The Cases of Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone
Journalism Education, volume 6, issue 2 (2018), pp. 28-36
"This paper examines the teaching of conflict-sensitive reporting, safety education and peace journalism in the curricula of institutions offering mass communication/journalism programmes in three English speaking countries of West Africa: Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It assesses the status of r
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The State of Digital Publishing: Facts and Figures from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria
San Francisco: Worldreader (2018), 25 pp.
"At a glance, there are a number of societal and infrastructural barriers to overcome before digital publishing has a huge market in these three countries. However, there are certainly opportunities at hand, particularly when it comes to testing and vetting content, where digital books can save publ
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Black / Africana Communication Theory
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxix, 345 pp.
"Most Western-driven theories do not have a place in Black communicative experience, especially in Africa. Many scholars interested in articulating and interrogating Black communication scholarship are therefore at the crossroads of either having to use Western-driven theory to explain a Black commu
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African Language Digital Media and Communication
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 236 pp.
"This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twi
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Understanding Nigerian Media and Elections Through Research: Analysis of the 2015 Presidential Election Campaign Messages
Lagos: Association of Communication Scholars & Professionals of Nigeria (ACSPN) (2018), 10 pp.
"1. Political parties and their supporters should concentrate more on issues-based campaign messages than hate campaign messages capable of demeaning personalities, religious/ethnic beliefs as well as ethnicity. 2. Political parties and their candidates should focus more on issue of importance to na
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Digital Activism and Cyberconflicts in Nigeria: Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and MEND
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2018), xiv, 256 pp.
"This book offers fresh insights on digital activism and cyberconflicts through a comparison of sociopolitical and ethnoreligious movements in Nigeria. Occupy Nigeria, Boko Haram and The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) highlight the digital and organizational aspects of confl
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"Dans des pays caractérisés par une profusion d’images essentiellement venues d’autres continents, et par une production très inégale, voire inexistante, quels ont été les modèles dominants de production ? Quels sont ceux que les mutations en cours font émerger ? Quels sont les enjeux é
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"The potential for young people to strengthen and grow the continent’s economies is only possible if they are adequately supported and provided with the tools they need to create a sustainable livelihood. Economic opportunities are a significant concern for young people globally, with youth three
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The State of ICT in In Nigeria 2018
Research ICT Africa (2018), 118 pp.
Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc
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Strengthening Accountability Through Media in Nigeria: Final Evaluation
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 47 pp.
"In a highly competitive media landscape, BBC Media Action’s governance programmes reached 52.8 million people in 2014 (and an estimated 64.6 million cumulatively), representing more than half the adult population of the country. One reason for this success was the brokering of radio partnerships
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
Deep Insights
Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.
"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W
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The Asaba Massacre: Trauma, Memory, and the Nigerian Civil War
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"In October 1967, early in the Nigerian Civil War, government troops entered Asaba in pursuit of the retreating Biafran army, slaughtering thousands of civilians and leaving the town in ruins. News of the atrocity was suppressed by the Nigerian government, with the complicity of Britain, and its sig
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