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Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres

Jonathan Haynes

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), xxviii, 375 pp.

"Haynes describes the major Nigerian film genres and how they relate to Nigerian society—its values, desires, anxieties, and social tensions—as the country and its movies have developed together over the turbulent past two decades. As he shows, Nollywood is a form of popular culture; it produces ... more

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Journalists in Sierra Leone

Sarah Bomkapre Kamara

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"In their professional role orientations, Sierra Leonean journalists found it most important to educate the audience, let people express their views, report things as they are, support national development and advocate for social change. The respondents believe it is not their job to convey a positi ... more

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Communication in Sierra Leone: An Analysis of Media and Mobile Audiences

Annabelle Wittels, Nick Maybanks

London: BBC Media Action (2016), 52 pp.

"The survey indicates that radio remains the most widely accessed broadcast platform in Sierra Leone. In all, eight out of 10 (81%) Sierra Leoneans have access to radio, and 47% listen to it daily. Radio listenership is fractured, however, with no single station able to reach a national audience. Ar ... more

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Best Laid Plans: Cultural Entropy and the Unraveling of AIDS Media Campaigns

Terence E. McDonnell

Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press (2016), 257 pp.;

"Organizations strive to persuade the public to change beliefs or behavior through expensive media campaigns. Designers painstakingly craft resonant and culturally sensitive messaging that will motivate people to buy a product or take active steps to improve their health. But once these campaigns le ... more

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Coming of Age: Strides in African Publishing, Essays in Honour of Dr Henry Chakava at 70

Kiarie Kamau, Kirimi Mitambo (eds.)

Henry Chakava (honoured person)

Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers (2016), xxvii, 288 pp.

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Tweeting Democracy: An Ethnographic Content Analysis of Social Media Use in the Differing Politics of Senegal and Ethiopia’s Newspapers

Jeslyn Lemke, Endalk Chala

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 167-185

"This descriptive, empirical study gives context to how print journalists in two politically different African nations, Senegal and Ethiopia, use Twitter and Facebook to report the news and to what extent. We ask, ‘how is this new model of online reporting manifesting itself in Ethiopian and Seneg ... more

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback ed. (2016), xxxi, 477 pp.

"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. ... more

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How the U.N. Silenced Liberia’s Press: Instead of Fostering Independent Media, the U.N. Monopolized the Post-War Airwaves and Paid Reporters for Friendly PR

Prue Clarke, Rodney Sieh

Foreign Policy, issue August 8 (2016), 3 pp.

"[...] Few aspects of Liberian society have suffered more under UNMIL than the media, which is critical for any young democracy but all the more so for one emerging from civil war. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the U.N. mission itself, and other donors have spent more than $ ... more

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Étudier la radio communautaire d’Afrique de l’Ouest à l’ère du numérique : Instrumentalisation développementaliste, carences théoriques et apport des Community media studies

Aude Jimenez

RadioMorphoses, issue 1 (2016), 11 pp.

"Les recherches consacrées au lien entre radio et technologies numériques en Afrique se multiplient dans la littérature depuis le début des années 2000. Pourtant, peu d’études portent spécifiquement sur les évolutions technologiques de la radio communautaire du continent. Cette dernière e ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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Télévisions au Sénégal: Entre désert de contenu et sécheresse intellectuelle

Mouhamadou Djimbira

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 79 pp.

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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.

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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515

"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)

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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Benjamin F. Soares (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2015), xii, 316 pp.

"New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such me ... more

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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.

Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100

"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more

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De l'éducation par les médias à l'éducation aux médias

Alain Kiyindou, Francis Barbey, Laurence Corroy-Labardens (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 334 pp.

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Social Media and the #Occupy Nigeria Protests: Igniting or Damping a Harmattan Storm?

Nwachukwu Egbunike, Anthony Olorunnisola

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 141-164

"This study compared social media (new media) and newspapers’ framing of the January 2012 #Occupy Nigeria Protest. Authors employed content analysis to investigate similarities and differences in the frames adopted by social media (Facebook page, blogs, conversations in Nairaland and Twitter) and ... more

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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
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Chris Snow, Will Taylor

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 48 pp.

"The report explores how discussion programmes – where a diverse audience, representing the whole of society, is engaged in fair and balanced debate – can stimulate both private/interpersonal discussion and public discussion in either a community setting or one hosted by local government. It the ... more

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Im Gegenlicht: Gesellschaftskritik im Spielfilm

iz3w, issue 384 (2015), pp. 17-40

"Gerade in Ländern des Globalen Südens gibt es eine beeindruckende Vielfalt kritischer Spielfilme aller Genres, vom Roadmovie bis zur Groteske. Mal sind sie explizit politisch, mal eher angedeutet und metaphorisch, um die Zensur zu umgehen oder um eindimensionale Interpretationen zu unterlaufen. I ... more

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Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2015), 29 slides

"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by ... more

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