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50 anos de rádio em Angola: "Só malandros"

José Maria Pinto de Almeida

Casal de Cambra (PO): Caleidoscópio (2016), 246 pp.

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The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, paperback ed. (2016), xxxi, 477 pp.

"Now in paperback for the first time, the Handbook is an academic adaptation of information contained in the Global Report on the Status of Women in News Media, a study commissioned by the International Women's Media Foundation. The book's editor was the principal investigator of the original study. ... more

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Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell

Zala Volcic, Mark Andrejevic (eds.)

Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), x, 202 pp.

"Commercial Nationalism intervenes in discussions of the fate of nationalism and national identity by exploring the relationship between state appropriation of marketing and branding strategies on the one hand, and, on the other, the commercial mobilization of nationalist discourses. The book's uniq ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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ICTs in Developing Countries: Research, Practices and Policy Implications

Bidit Dey, Karim Sorour, Raffaele Filieri (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 192 pp.

"ICTs in Developing Countries is a collection of conceptual and empirical works on the adoption and impacts of ICT use in developing societies. Bringing together a wide range of disciplines and contributors, it offers a rich examination of digital divide and ICT for development both in terms of cont ... more

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Audience Responses to Peace Journalism: Merging Results from a Four-Country Research Study

Annabel McGoldrick, Jake Lynch

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 5 (2016), pp. 628-646

"This article shows how results were merged from a study conducted in four countries-Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico-in which differently versioned television news stories about conflict were played to audiences, and their responses gathered through a mix of methods, to yield bot ... more

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Listening to the ‘Born Frees’: Politics and Disillusionment in South Africa

Vanessa Malila, Anthea Garman

African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 64-80

"This article presents work done with youngsters from South Africa's poorest province, the Eastern Cape, in an effort to listen to their experience of politics and to understand their use of the media – especially whether it enables them to speak out and be heard in the public sphere. Our research ... more

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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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Television and the Cultivation of Personal Values Among Catholics in Zambia

Moses Hamungole

Leuven: KU Leuven, Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen, Doctoral Thesis (2015), 499 pp.

"[...] the aims for embarking on this study were (a) for the researcher to understand more about the TV, it’s various genres and audiences preferences; (b) Explore the applicability of cultivation theory to an African TV audience; (c) gather data about important values and value changes, and share ... more

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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.

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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students

Leketi Makalela

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418

"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi ... more

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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138

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Applied Theatre: Development

Tim Prentki (ed.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2015), x, 291 pp.

"At once both guide book and provocation, this is an indispensable companion for students and practitioners of applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed to appeal both to those who have recently discovered t ... more

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Digital Age as Ethical Maze: Citizen Journalism Ethics During Crises in Zimbabwe and South Africa

Dumisani Moyo

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 125-144

"This article discusses citizen journalism ethics in crisis settings. It argues for an ontological critique of citizen journalism ethics where the practice must not be judged in relation to the moral taboos of mainstream journalism. Situating citizen journalism within the broader context of liquid m ... 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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Radio Broadcasting in the Era of HIV/AIDS: Can This be the Magic Bullet?

Tawanda Sydesky Nyawasha, Crispen Chipunza

International Social Work, volume 58, issue 2 (2015), pp. 223-237

"In this study, we assessed the relevance and effectiveness of radio broadcasting as a strategy that facilitates the adoption and use of safer sexual practices among students at a South African university. Based on ethnographic data, the article highlights that the essential and critical contributio ... more

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When the Subaltern Speaks: Citizen Journalism and Genocide ‘victims’ Voices Online

Shepherd Mpofu

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101

"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly ... more

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All Answers: On the Phenomenal Success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa

Ilana van Wyk

In: Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies

Lindhardt Lindhardt (ed.)

Leiden: Brill (2015), pp. 136-162

"The UCKG’s phenomenal success in post-apartheid South Africa had been a source of much speculation. Scholars generally attributed the church’s growth to new political and economic processes while the South African media and the church’s critics suspected that the UCKG’s attraction was caref ... more

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Prosperity and the Work of Luck in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, South Africa

Ilana van Wyk

Critical African Studies, volume 7, issue 3 (2015), pp. 262-279

"In 1905, Weber contended that uncertainty about their eternal fate forced Protestants to find secular signs of their destiny in their vocations, their frugality and in their ability to work hard and accumulate capital. More than a century later, the ‘Protestant ethic’ has changed irrevocably. T ... more

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Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation and Subversion

Julia Gallagher (ed.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2015), xv, 203 pp.