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Radios et religions en Afrique subsaharienne: Dynamisme, concurrence, action sociale
Deep Insights

Étienne Damome
Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (2014), 319 pp.
"Cet ouvrage analyse l’environnement des radios confessionnelles et leurs stratégies de communication dans un contexte médiatique, religieux et social marqué par le libéralisme et de profondes mutations. Il nous fait découvrir l’extraordinaire expansion des médias radiophoniques en Afrique ... more
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Missão Midiática Afrikania: Representando a “Religião Tradicional Afrikana” na esfera pública cristã em Gana

Marleen de Witte
Religião e Sociedade, volume 34, issue 2 (2014), pp. 161-183
"No campo de estudos de religião e mídia, a importância da comunicação de massa está bem estabelecida para as religiões globalizadas tais como o cristianismo e o islamismo, mas o mesmo não se verifica com relação às religiões nativas africanas. O presente artigo busca preencher essa lacu ... more
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Videos That Speak for Themselves: When Non-Extensionists Show Agricultural Videos to Large Audiences

Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele, Florent Okry, Espérance Zossou
Development in Practice, volume 24, issue 7 (2014), pp. 921-929
"In 2008, an NGO showed videos about rice to farmers in 19 villages in Benin. A study in 2013 showed that farmers remembered the videos, even after five years had passed. In most of the villages at least some farmers experimented with rice farming or with new technology after the video screenings, w ... more
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Contemporary Media Use in Nigeria

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 36 slides
"Nigeria is a complex country grappling with serious economic, political, and security challenges. New media are an increasingly effective pathway for reaching Nigerian audiences, especially those who are media rich. However, there remain media poor segments of the population who can only be reached ... more
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The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries

Susana Salgado
Farnham: Ashgate (2014), xi,185 pp.
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Religion & communication

David Douyère, Stéphane Dufour, Odile Riondet
Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 232 pp.
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Le rôle des médias communautaires dans la stabilisation des régions de post–crise en Afrique. Étude de cas: La spécificité des radios de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire

Magali Siaudeau
London: Internews Europe; Fondation Roi Baudouin (2014), 40 pp.
"Transformer des radios existantes en radios «communautaire» n’est pas un modèle envisageable à large échelle. Toutefois, le lien créé avec les communautés à travers les groupes d’écoute dans l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire a con tribué au processus de rapprochement social entre les ... more
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Sociologie politique d’une expérience de démocratie participative: Le cas d’une radio communautaire au Sénégal

Yacine Diagne
Université Paris-Dauphine, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 532 pp.
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Discussing the Igbo Language on the Igbo Internet Radio: Explicating Ethnolinguistic Vitality

Uchenna Onuzulike
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 285-298
"There is a growing concern about the decline and possible extinction of the Igbo language. The Igbo are primarily located in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. This study analysed four interviews on Igbo Radio, an Igbo Internet radio station, to ascertain how Internet radio is being utilized in dis ... more
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Médias, religion et mobilité en Afrique et dans la diaspora = Media, Religion and Mobility in Africa and the Diaspora

Katrien Pype, Anne Mélice, Steven Van Wolputte (eds.)
Social Compass, volume 61, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-72
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Potential Uses of Community Radio in Political Awareness: A Proposal for Nigeria

Michael Aondo-verr Kombol
New Media and Mass Communication, volume 24 (2014), pp. 12-24
"This paper examines the potential uses of community radio in political awareness, especially in Nigeria where community radio is not yet in existence. The existence of community radio in other parts of Africa but not Nigeria leaves a void because there may be a lot of uses to which community radio ... more
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The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future

Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...] ... more
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Theatre for Peace: CPS Work in Cameroon, DR Congo, Nepal, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Uganda

Kasereka Lusenge Joshua, Claus Schrowange, Charlie Haffner, Jean Blaise Kenmogne, Silvia Stroh, Jeanne Medom, Anne Dirnstorfer
Bafoussam; Berlin: Brot für die Welt; Civil Peace Service (CPS) (2014), 143 pp.
"This manual is an opportunity for the Civil Peace Service (CPS) networks to share the experiences of some of the people and organisations who use theatre as a tool for communication, change and peace. You will find theoretical bases, concrete examples related to the contents and some techniques and ... more
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Radio Centrafrique: Institutional and Technical Assessment

Internews; USAID (2014), 10 pp.
"Radio Centrafrique was established in 1958. In its roles as the nation’s public broadcaster, it is run like a state media. However, since 2013, Radio Centrafrique has tried to preserve a neutral tone and its focus on public interest information. However, its status within the Ministry of Communic ... more
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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.
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The Gambia Media Survey

Gates Malaria Partnership; Center for Innovation Against Malaria (2014), 56 pp.
"A national survey was completed in November 2004, designed to measure: media access and use; knowledge of Malaria, its prevention and cure; reach of the radio programme Bolongodala. The sample achieved represented the adult (15+) population of the Gambia estimated to be 768,200. Mandinka is the mos ... more
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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb (eds.)
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
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Dimitra Newsletter, Nr. 25

Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2014), 24 pp.
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Mali oder das Ringen um Würde: Meine Reisen in einem verwundeten Land

Charlotte Wiedemann
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2014), 301 pp.
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Central African Republic: Supporting the Media and Humanitarian Information and Communication in a Complex Emergency. Roundtable Report, 5-6 February 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon

International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 30 pp.
"This two-day roundtable brought together representatives from key organizations and institutions in CAR as well as representatives from international organizations currently operating in CAR. The aim was to address the needs for media support and humanitarian information and communication and to en ... more