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Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

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Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project. Facilitator's Guide

Musola C. Kaseketi, John Chiti, Elaine Maane

Cape Town; Livingstone: Steps;Vilole Images Productions (2017), 12 pp.

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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)

New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.

"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more

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(Re)imagining African Independence: Film, Visual Arts and the Fall of the Portuguese Empire

Maria do Carmo Piçarra, Teresa Castro (eds.)

Oxford et al.: Peter Lang (2017), xvi, 287 pp.

"The fortieth anniversary of the independence of the African countries colonized by Portugal presents a valuable opportunity to reassess how colonialism has been «imagined» through the medium of the moving image. The essays collected in this volume investigate Portuguese colonialism and its filmic ... more

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Global Perspectives on Intercultural Communication

Stephen M. Croucher (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2017), vii, 376 pp.

"What is intercultural communication? How does perspective shape a person’s definition of the key tenets of the term and the field? These are the core questions explored by this accessible global introduction to intercultural communication. Each chapter explores the topic from a different geograph ... more

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Thirty Rising Media Markets 2016

Anne Austin, Jonathan Barnard, Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon ... more

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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
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Xiaoling Zhang, Herman Wasserman, Winston Mano (eds.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 237 pp.

"This volume brings together scholars from different disciplines and nations to examine and assess the effectiveness of China's soft power initiatives in Africa. It throws light not only on China's engagement with Africa but also on how China's increasing influence is received in the African media." ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.

"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more

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Journalists in South Africa

Arnold S. De Beer, Sean Beckett, Vanessa Malila, Herman Wasserman

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"With regard to professional role orientations, South African journalists found it most important to report things as they are (92.5%), to educate the audience (86.8%), and to let people express their views (84.6%). The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the interviewed journalists ... more

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Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas and Visions: Radio Botswana and the Making of a National Radio Station

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Brilliant Mhlanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 55-73

"Botswana’s government as one of the celebrated postcolonial democracies in Southern Africa continues to have the state owning and controlling the media – in particular, broadcast media. The history of government-owned and controlled media in Botswana can be understood through colonial lenses � ... more

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Celebrity Humanitarianism and North-South Relations: Politics, Place and Power

Lisa Ann Richey (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xv, 239 pp.

"This book examines what the diverse roster of celebrity humanitarians are actually doing in and across North and South contexts. Celebrity humanitarianism is an effective lens for viewing the multiple and diverse relationships that constitute the links between North and South. New empirical finding ... more

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Ubuntu Journalism and Nation-Building Magic

Colin Chasi, Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 30, issue 5 (2016), pp. 728-744

"This article explores ideas around nation building, as constructed through the ethos as well as practice of ubuntu journalism. We make the argument that by invoking ubuntu as an underlying ethos for a reporting ethic and practice, the news media contribute to a magical idea of nationhood and nation ... more

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Diamonds Are Forever? Press Coverage of African Conflicts and the Westphalian Filter of Resource Wars

Christopher R. Cook

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 109-126

"This article argues that when it comes to reporting conflicts in the developing world the western press ignores the private sphere of economic activity because it privileges a narrative of people fighting over the nation state, as well as political ideologies and territory gained and lost. This cho ... more

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Comparative Analysis of Civil Society, Media and Conflict

Rebecca Pointer, Tanja Bosch, Wallace Chuma, Herman Wasserman

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2016), 52 pp.

"This paper explores how Egyptian, Kenyan, Serbian and South African civil society organisations (CSOs) use communication and relationships with media to engage in democratic contestation. Individual interviews were conducted with 91 CSO members who participated in the various democratisation confli ... more

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Let’s be Responsible Citizens! Contesting the Agenda of a Sponsored Call-In Radio Programme

Alastair Fraser

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 25 pp.

"This working paper considers in detail how the hosts of and listeners to one call-in radio programme in Zambia were influenced by, resisted and co-opted the agendas of the sponsor that paid for its production. It develops a detailed case-study covering fifteen episodes of, ‘Let’s Be Responsible ... more

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The Political Economy of Sponsored Call-In Radio in Zambia

Alastair Fraser

Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2016), 19 pp.

"This working paper provides a context for the assessment of hopes that there might be a transformation in political accountability in Africa as a result of previously powerless and voiceless populations having their agendas strengthened via interactive media. It describes the ways in which many rad ... more

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Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia: Private Chat to Public Communication

Ran Wei (ed.)

Dordrecht: Springer (2016), xv, 236 pp.

"This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weib ... more

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Journalists in Botswana

Jyotika Ramaprasad

Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.

"The top six roles, all with means above 4.5 and standard deviations below 1, for Botswana journalists, were a mix of those aligned with a liberal press (e.g., report things as they are) and those relevant to development journalism (e.g., support national development). “Report things as they are� ... more

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Indigenous Language Media, Language Politics and Democracy in Africa

Abiodun Salawu, Monica Balya Chibita (eds.)

Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xiii, 246 pp.

"This book deals with the often-neglected link between indigenous languages, media and democracy in Africa. It recognizes that the media plays an amplifying role that is vital to modern-day expression, public participation and democracy but that without the agency to harness media potential, many Af ... more

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State Interference, Para-Politics and Editorial Control: The Political Economy of ‘Mirrorgate’ in Zimbabwe

Oswelled Ureke

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 17-34

"This article explores the events leading to the closure of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG) in 2007. It narrates how the state in Zimbabwe, through its intelligence arm, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), covertly took over the privately owned newspaper stable, publishers of th ... more

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China's Media and Soft Power in Africa: Promotion and Perceptions
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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