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Nigeria Media Use 2012: Digital Media Gap Shrinking, Popularity of Radio Undiminished

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 43 slides
"Digital media should be a part of any communications strategy for Nigeria. Previously ¡§underserved¡¨ groups entering the digital mainstream fast. Internet outreach should be mobile-centric. Take advantage of penchant for information-sharing. But don't forget the continued primacy of broadcast ... more
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"Citizen Access to Information": Capturing the Evidence Across Zambia, Ghana and Kenya

Gerry Power, Samia Khatun, Klara Debeljak
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 245-275
"In this chapter, we argue that citizen access to information is a catalyst to the achievement of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) [...] We examine how citizen access to information varies across a range of population sub-groups, different countries, and across a variety of topics and the exte ... more
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Entwicklung oder Profit? Die staatliche und private Presse in Ghana

Daniel Kuehnhenrich
Stuttgart: ibidem-Verlag (2012), 146 pp.
"Im subsaharischen Afrika orientieren sich die Medien am Entwicklungsjournalismus und am westlichen Journalismusverständnis. Daniel Kuehnhenrich untersucht mit verschiedenen Methoden die Ausprägung dieser Konzepte in den ghanaischen Zeitungen. Seine umfassende Analyse beruht auf der ersten Journal ... more
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Rich Digital Media as a Tool in Post-Conflict Truth and Reconciliation

Michael L. Best, William J. Long, John Etherto
Media, War & Conflict, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 231-249
"Modern rich digital media (such as interactive systems with audio and video as well as text) have not been robustly deployed as a tool in the processes of peace-building, healing and reconciliation in nations emerging from civil conflict. This article studies the use of rich digital media in Liberi ... more
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Models of and Approaches to the Station Management of Six African Community Radio Broadcasters

Linje Manyozo, Goretti Nassanga Linda, Claudia Lopes
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 28, issue 52 (2012), pp. 7-27
"This article is a political economy critique that contributes to current scholarship on community radio and development by examining the question of the management of six networks from Mali, Mozambique and Uganda. This discussion argues that understanding the models and functions of management comm ... more
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Evaluation Report: Good Governance Through Strengthened Media in Liberia Project

Alphonsus P. Zeon
Monrovia: Liberia Media Center; Journalists for Human Rights (2012), 38 pp.
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Peacebuilding and Public Service Media: Lessons from Star Radio and Media Development in Liberia

Elizabeth Goodfriend
London: London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2012), 39 pp.
"Star Radio, one of Liberia’s leading nationally broadcast radio stations, went off-air at the end of 2010 following a staff strike. Started as an international project with funding from international donors, the station did not have the capacity to compete in a challenging market when donor fundi ... more
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Global Nollywood: The Nigerian Movie Industry and Alternative Global Networks in Production and Distribution

Jade Miller
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 117-134
"While Nollywood, Nigeria’s video industry, is largely separate from dominant global cultural industry networks of production inputs and distribution, it is an industry that is still globally linked in a number of ways. In this article, I investigate the nature and layout of these connections via ... more
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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Diásporas, migrações, tecnologias da comunicação e identidades transnacionais;Diásporas, migraciones, tecnologías de la comunicación e identidades transnacionales;Diaspora, Migration, Communication Technologies and Transnational Identities;Diasporas, migrations, technologies de la communication et identités transnationales

Denise Cogo, Mohammed ElHajji, Amparo Huertas (eds.)
Barcelona: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Institut de la Comunicació (InCom-UAB) (2012), 527 pp.
"While the empirical emphasis of this book is on diasporic groups and their experiences with mainly new communication technologies, the topic is embedded in a broader set of questions that inform social sciences today. The book speaks to and analyses convergence cultures, community building, transna ... more
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Partner, Prototype or Persuader? China’s Renewed Media Engagement with Ghana

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau, Daniel Nkrumah
Communication, Politics & Culture, volume 45 (2012), pp. 174-196
"This article provides an empirically grounded assessment of China’s increasing role in the African mediasphere. It examines the strategic importance of Chinese media assistance to Ghana along three dimensions: the potential appeal of the Chinese approach to information regulation for countries st ... more
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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 1: Forms

Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2012), xi, 208 pp.
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A Bibliography of Academic Work on Nigerian and Ghanaian Video Films

Jonathan Haynes
Journal of African Cinemas, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 99-133
"This reckoning of the academic work that has been published on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films does not include theses and dissertations, of which many have been written. I have included as many books on the subject as possible whatever their character, but in order to make the project manageable ... more
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Socio-Economic Incentives, New Media and the Boko Haram Campaign of Violence in Northern Nigeria

Aliyu Odamah Musa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 111-124
"This article seeks to analyse and explain the emergence of the extremists Islamist Boko Haram sect that is currently perpetuating a reign of violence in Northern Nigerian cities and factors that have aided its rise. It takes a look at the changing political and socio-economic situations in the coun ... more
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African Media Barometer: Ghana 2011

Accra; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 58 pp.
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World

Soumitra Dutta, Beñat Bilbao-Osorio (eds.)
Geneva: World Economic Forum; INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi ... more
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Towards a framework of sustainability indicators for ‘communication for development and social change’ projects

Jan Servaes, Emily Polk, Song Shi, Danielle Reilly, Thanu Yakupitijage
International Communication Gazette, volume 74, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-123
"This article presents an overview of the emergence of sustainability themes in communication for development and argues that there is an urgent need for a framework of sustainability indicators for communication for development and social change projects around the world. It fills a crucial gap in ... more
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Television and the Gospel of Entertainment in Ghana

Marleen de Witte
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 144-164
"Charismatic-Pentecostal 'media ministries' have become very successful in Africa's new media fields. They shape new forms of public religiosity that spill over into various forms of popular culture and resonate with broad audiences. This article explores the emergence of new Pentecostal publics at ... more
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Nigeria Media Use 2012

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2012), 2 pp.
"The Nigerian media market is dominated by radio and television, though mobile and Internet technologies are increasing in importance. Almost 9 in 10 Nigerians (87.4%) say they listened to radio in the past week, and nearly three-quarters (72.5%) say they watched TV. Though incidence of radio use is ... more
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The Media and the Political Crisis in Côte D’Ivoire

Zio Moussa
Legon; Copenhagen: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 62 pp.