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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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Terminaux et environnements numériques mobiles dans l'espace francophone

Alain Kiyindou, Étienne Damome (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 240 pp.
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Media, Discussion, and Attitudes in Fragile Contexts
Deep Insights

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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Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

Savita Bailur, Jonathan Donner et al.
Farnham: Caribou Digital Publishing (2015), 186 pp.
"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli ... more
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Impact Evaluation of Peace Through Development II (P-DEV II): Radio Programming in Chad and Niger

Steven E. Finkel, Reynaldo T. Rojo-Mendoza, Cassilde L. Schwartz, Chris A. Belasco, Anne Kreft
Washington, DC: USAID (2015), 48 pp.
"This document is a report on the radio component of Peace through Development II (P-DEV II), a multi-year development program funded by the United States Agency for International Development/West Africa (USAID/WA), whose main goal is to counter violent extremism in Chad, Niger, and Burkina Faso. P- ... more
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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp
Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides
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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more
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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)
Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.
"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more
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Media Freedom and Right to Information in Africa

Luca Bussotti, Miguel de Barros, Tilo Grätz (eds.)
Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2015), 136 pp.
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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)
London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.
"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more
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Éducation aux médias à l'heure des réseaux

Laurence Corroy-Labardens, Francis Barbey, Alain Kiyindou (coord.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 321 pp.
"À travers des contributions issues de terrains divers, cet ouvrage tente d’analyser le contexte d’usage des technologies et leurs incidences sur nos comportements, nos représentations… Il interroge sur nos rapports avec la technologie, mais aussi la façon dont nous l’appréhendons." (Des ... more
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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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Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)
Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), xix, 271 pp.
"Entertainment-education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa is a collection of essays from some of the leading scholars in entertainment-education, including writers from South Africa, Nigeria, and the United States. Chapters cover a wide range of application and strategi ... more
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L'autre version de la crise centrafricaine

Johnny Vianney Bissakonou
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 132 pp.
"La bipolarisation de la crise centrafricaine en conflit "chrétiens versus musulmans" détourne l'attention du monde sur les origines, la vraie nature et les auteurs instigateurs de ce drame. Cet ouvrage allume les projecteurs sur tous ceux qui ont joué une partition non négligeable dans ce mélo ... more
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Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)
London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.
"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work. The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that ... more
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Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana

Birgit Meyer
Oakland, Calif.: University of California Press (2015), xix, 380 pp.
"Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture in turmoil. Birgit Meyer captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination ... 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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Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), 267 pp.
"Un quart de siècle s'est écoulé depuis les « transitions démocratiques » qui, au début des années 1990, ont ramené le pluralisme politique et médiatique en Afrique subsaharienne. Libéralisé, le champ des médias a connu des transformations spectaculaires, avec l'apparition de milliers d ... more
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Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings

Theodora Hannides
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 64 pp.
"This synthesis of evidence suggests that BBC Media Action interventions have an important role to play in assisting people affected by crisis, and is consistent with other literature that highlights the role of media in providing accurate and reliable information in crisis. It highlights that, as w ... more
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From Crisis to Transition: Media in Burkina Faso

Michelle Betz
International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 23 pp.