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Generative AI in African News Media: Opportunities and Challenges
Routledge (2025), xix, 190 pp.
"Featuring diverse case studies from South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Eswatini, the collection explores how African newsrooms are adopting generative AI. Contributors analyse the use of AI presenters, audience perceptions of AI-generated content, gamification strategies in newsroo
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The risks and resilience in reporting violent extremism
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 17, issue 2 (2025), pp. 131-147
"This article examines the lived experiences of conflict reporters to unpick the pitfalls and perseverance in journalism practice in dangerous places. It uses the case of covering the Boko Haram conflict to unpack the risks journalists encounter in reporting on violent extremism. Drawing on individu
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
"How can current debates on ‘media capture’ be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture—a critical yet contested concept that examines and illuminates how media can become skewed in favour of power—whil
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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025
Deep Insights
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2025), 170 pp.
"• Engagement with traditional media sources such as TV, print, and news websites continues to fall, while dependence on social media, video platforms, and online aggregators grows. This is particularly the case in the United States where polling overlapped with the first few weeks of the new Trum
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Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa
London: Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xviii, 222 pp.
"This open access edited collection offers the first-ever book-length volume on feminist digital citizenship in Africa. It offers multiple, theoretically grounded case studies by African researchers covering countries across the length and breadth of the continent, including non-majority-English cou
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WhatsApp in the World: Disinformation, Encryption, and Extreme Speech
Deep Insights
New York: New York University Press (2025), vii, 375 pp.
"Known by the popular nickname “ZapZap” in Brazil and synonymous with the Internet across Africa and South Asia, WhatsApp has emerged as a major means of communication for millions of people around the world. Unlike social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook, WhatsApp offers a closed, e
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Contemporary African Screen Worlds
Deep Insights
Durham: Duke University Press (2025), xvii, 356 pp.
"Contemporary African Screen Worlds brings together a new generation of African screen media scholars who explore and theorize the dynamic, interactive screen worlds that have arisen in contemporary Africa due to dramatic global changes in technology. Drawing on long-term fieldwork, extensive interv
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Mapping the information integrity landscape in West Africa: An annotated bibliography
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2025), 26 pp.
"This annotated bibliography is organised into four sections. Section 1 demonstrates how disinformation emerges as the most prominent topic in the literature on information integrity. Several different kinds of agents of disinformation operate within West Africaʼs information sphere. These range fr
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Technical study on telecommunication and ICT infrastructure data, costs and analysis in Nigeria
Geneva: ITU (2025), ix, 72 pp.
"This study analyses the costs of connecting to the Internet and providing Internet services in Nigeria for fibre-optic network connectivity, microwave links, mobile broadband cellular links, and cellular communications. The analysis has focused on the capital expenditure (capex) of telecommunicatio
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Shaping Global Cultures Through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds
Bristol: Intellect (2025), 658 pp.
"This volume, Shaping Global Cultures through Screenwriting: Women Who Write Our Worlds, tells stories of women who have worked with and within communities to bring the communities’ stories to life through screenwriting. In gathering these examples, we asked for stories that achieved some level
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The African Book Industry: Trends, Challenges & Opportunities for Growth
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2025), 249 pp.
"Thanks to its outstanding literary talent and growing number of success stories, Africa’s book industry holds immense potential. Although the continent as a whole still relies heavily on imports and foreign publishing houses, it accounted for 5.4% of the global publishing market in 2023, generati
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Digital Surveillance in Africa: Power, Agency, and Rights
London: Zed Books; Bloomsbury Publishing (2025), xxii, 214 pp.
"Comparatively little is known about the millions of dollars now being spent on digital technologies for use in the illegal and illegitimate surveillance of citizens in Africa. In this open-access third volume of Bloomsbury s Digital Africa series, a broad range of African and European scholars and
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Reconceptualising Multilingualism on African Radio: Language and Identity
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), 262 pp.
"This book redefines multilingualism via the concept of radio in Africa. Africa presents unique challenges of lingual diversity which the media still struggles to accommodate, particularly when it comes to indigenous languages. Contributors argue that the linguistic realities of African radio reflec
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Online harassment of journalists in Nigeria: Audience motivations and solutions
Media International Australia, volume 194, issue 1 (2025), pp. 115-130
"This study investigates the motivations for the hostility towards the press by the audience and how to control online harassment of journalists in Nigeria. Data for this study are from online and face-to-face semi-structured interviews of 54 Nigerians in Nigeria. Finding shows that perceived journa
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Effectiveness of art therapy in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and the propensity to quit journalism among journalists covering banditry activities in Nigeria
Media, War & Conflict, volume 17, issue 4 (2024), pp. 445-462
"The goal of this study was to examine the efficacy of art therapy in the treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and the propensity to quit journalism among Nigerian journalists covering banditry attacks. The researchers utilized a quasi-experiment as the design for the study and sampled
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Environmental Communication
Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton (2024), xx, 600 pp.
"This handbook reviews extant research and offers critical summaries of key topics and issues in the field, enriched by authoritative analyses of specific cases and examples. It displays pluralism across a number of axes: epistemological, theoretical, geographical, cultural, and thematic. The first
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The Global Faith and Entertainment Study: A Study of Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Faith and Religion in Entertainment
HarrisX; Faith & Media Initiative (2024), 25 pp.
"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report?
Journalism, volume 26, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1288-1306
"This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Finding
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Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2024), 365 pp.
"News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journal
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Disability and Media: An African Perspective
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xvii, 269 pp.
"This book seeks to expand some of the existing, often western and Global North facing, scholarship in the area of Disability and Media Studies to include African perspectives. Featuring predominantly Africa-based contributors, it studies an array of topics on disability and media in Africa, includi
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