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Community-Radios in Benin: Rahmenbedingungen, Problemfelder, Potentiale

Tilo Grätz

Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2010), 35 pp.

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Doing Community Radio: A Toolkit for Nigerian Communities

Ayobami Ojebode

Lagos: Nigeria Community Radio Coalition;Institute for Media and Society (IMS);Panos West Africa (2010), 82 pp.

"This toolkit illustrates what it takes to set up and manage a community radio station in Nigeria. It discusses what community radio is and how it can contribute to the individual (provide relaxation, information, entertainment, promote self-expression and creativity) or to the community as a whole ... more

Radios communautaires de Dakar: Communication pour le développement et extraversion

Jeanne Dorelli

Montréal: Université Concordia, Master Thesis (2010), xii, 137 pp.

"Ayant comme source principale des entretiens effectués au cours de l’automne 2009, ce mémoire s’attelle à explorer la réalité des radios communautaires de Dakar, la capitale du Sénégal. Plus particulièrement, il s’agit d’interroger les relations qu’elles entretiennent avec leurs � ... more

Les radios locales: Un outil de dialogue entre acteurs de la gouvernance

Florent Yipeni Bakouan

Ouagadougou: Laboratoire Citoy (2010), 42 pp.

L’influence de la radio communautaire dans le développement local : Le cas du Mali

Eric A. Paulhus

Université du Québec en Outaouais (2010), 136 pp.

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Understanding Community Media
Top Insights

Kevin Howley (ed.)

London et al.: Sage (2010), xii, 410 pp.

"With contributions from an international team of well-known experts, media activists, and promising young scholars, this comprehensive volume examines community-based media from theoretical, empirical, and practical perspectives. More than 30 original essays provide an incisive and timely analysis ... more

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International Journalism and Democracy: Civic Engagement Models from Around the World

Angela Romano (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2010), ix, 251 pp.

"This book examines different models from around the world of how journalism can support deliberation - the processes in which societies recognize and discuss the issues that affect them, appraise the potential responses, and make decisions about whether and how to take action. Authors from across t ... more

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Winds from the East: How the People’s Republic of China Seeks to Influence the Media in Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia

Douglas Farah, Andy Mosher

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 32 pp.

"The People's Republic of China is seeking to influence the media in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through a variety of means: direct aid to state-run media in the form of radio transmitters and financing for national satellites; the provision of content and technology to allies and pote ... more

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News Then, News Now: What Nigerian Catholic Newspaper Industry Can Learn from its U.S. Counterpart

Akodu Peter Kehinde

Champaign-Urbana, Illin.: University of Illinois, College of Media, Master Thesis (2010), iii, 133 pp.

"It's evident that not all aspects of Traber's 1978 report adequately appeal to our present concern in Nigeria, but there are certain proposals that are still very much relevant. An example is its proposal to establish a Catholic National Weekly Newspaper and a National Monthly Magazine. This is dea ... more

Alerte medias: Afrique de l'Ouest, 2009: Rapport annuel sur la situation des médias

Legon (GH): Fondation pour les Médias en Afrique de l’Ouest (2010), viii, 176 pp.

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The Digital Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Information Technology and Political Islam

Philip N. Howard

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2010), xii, 285 pp.

"Around the developing world, political leaders face a dilemma: the very information and communication technologies that boost economic fortunes also undermine power structures. Globally, one in ten internet users is a Muslim living in a populous Muslim community. In these countries, young people ar ... more

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Harnessing Africa’s Digital Future

Francis Mdlongwa, Moagisi Letlhaku (eds.)

Johannesburg; Grahamstown: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS);Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership (2010), 136 pp.

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Barometre des Médias Africains: Mali 2010

Bamako; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2010), 130 pp.

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Pentecostalism and Modern Audiovisual Media

Birgit Meyer

In: Media and Identity in Africa

Kimani Njogu; John Middleton (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), pp. 114-123

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A Literature Review: Nigerian and Ghanaian Videos

Jonathan Haynes

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 22, issue 1 (2010), pp. 105-120

"The main purpose of this review of the published academic literature on Nigerian and Ghanaian video films is to foster self-awareness in this new field of study. This literature has been produced on three continents and out of many academic disciplines; in consequence, scholars tend to make few ref ... more

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La loi et les medias en Mauritanie

Legon (GH): Fondation pour les Médias en Afrique de l’Ouest (2009), 44 pp.

Video in Development
Key Guidance

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), 60 pp.

"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more

Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development
Inspiring Practice

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)

London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED);Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.

"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... more

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Histoire de la télévision en Afrique noire francophone, des origines à nos jours

Tidiane Dioh

Paris: Karthala (2009), 238 pp.