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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.

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The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action

David Lush, Gabriel Urgoiti

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 83 pp.

"The study found that, in their struggle to generate the income for day-to-day running costs, stations become detached from their communities, and end up competing - usually unsuccessfully - with better-resourced commercial broadcasters. The solution, the study suggests, is to invest in strengthenin ... more

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Zimbabwe’s Community Radio ‘initiatives’: Promoting Alternative Media in a Restrictive Legislative Environment

Nhamo Mhiripiri

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 107-126

"Unlike most nations in southern Africa, Zimbabwe has not seen the expansion in community radio stations that has been characteristic of the region from the 1990s. A number of community radio initiatives (CRIs) were formed after the 2001 Zimbabwean Broadcasting Services Act (BSA), but no licences we ... more

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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations

Mandla Msimang, Libby Lloyd, Nadia Bulbulia, Leona Mentz, Babu Charles Katanga, Thabisa Faye

Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.

"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif ... more

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Community Radio: The Beat That Develops the Soul of the People? A Case Study of XK FM as a SABC Owned Community Radio Station and its Role as a Facilitator of Community Based Development

Thomas Bongani Hart

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Master Thesis (2011), 228 pp.

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Community Radio: The Future Speaks “glocal”. An African Experience: The Guinea-Bissau & Mozambique Cases

Patricia Mota Paula

Signo y Pensamiento, volume 31, issue julio-diciembre (2011), pp. 282-297

"This article focuses on a comparative analysis of community radio realities in two Lusophone African countries: Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, whose local ield research refers to 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009, respectively. It focuses on the tense relationship between political power and community radio ... more

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Legislation, Regulation, and Management in the South African Broadcasting Landscape: A Case Study of the South African Broadcasting Corporation

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

In: The Handbook of Global Media and Communication Policy

Robin Mansell; Marc Raboy (eds.)

Malden, Mass.: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 414-431

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Barómetro Africano da Media: Moçambique 2011 = African Media Barometer: Moçambique 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES);Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 126 pp.

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Media Piracy in Emerging Economies

Joe Karaganis (ed.)

New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC) (2011), 425 pp.

"This publication is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in the developing world, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia. Based on three years of work by some thirty-five researchers, the study tells two overarching stories: on ... more

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China in South Africa: The Media’s Response to a Developing Relationship

Herman Wasserman

Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies (2011), 20 pp.

"Literature about China’s role in Africa suggests that China’s presence on the continent is often viewed in stark binary terms, as either an exploitative, predatory force or a benevolent, development partner. An analysis of attitudes in the South African media over the last three years (if De Be ... more

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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in Mozambique

New York, Geneva: United Nations (2011), xiv, 95 pp.

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L'Église Catholique en Afrique = The Catholic Church in Africa = A Igreja Católica em África

Paris: Oeuvres Pontificales Missionaires (OPM);Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM), 24th ed. (2010), 775 pp.

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Challenging the Lion in its Den: Dilemmas of Gender and Media Activism in South Africa

Margaretha Geertsema-Sligh

Butler University, College of Communication (2010), 23 pp.

"Media activism groups work to bring about change in the mainstream media, but their gains are often limited. Drawing on theories of the political function of news in a democracy, media sociology, and feminism, this article focuses on the specific experience of Gender Links, a Southern African gende ... more

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Access to Knowledge in Africa: The Role of Copyright

Chris Armstrong, Jeremy de Beer, Dick Kawooya, Achal Prabhala, Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press;International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp.

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen ... more

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Journalism in the Global South: South Africa and Brazil

Herman Wasserman, Arnold S. De Beer (eds.)

Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 36, issue 2 (2010), pp. 143-287

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ICTs and Development in Zambia: Challenges and Opportunities

David Souter

London: Panos London (2010), 8 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2010: Focus on ICTs and Environmental Sustainability

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2010), 244 pp.

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Telling the right(s) story? Die Arbeit der Nichtregierungsorganisation „Media Monitoring Africa“ in Johannesburg/Südafrika

Susanne Dietmann

Kaiserslautern: Technische Universität, Fernstudium „Nachhaltige Entwicklungszusammenarbeit“, Hausarbeit (2010), 38 pp.

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Communication for Empowerment: Global Report

Elizabeth McCall, Birgitte Jallov

Oslo; South Orange, New Jers.: UNDP Oslo Governance Centre;Communication for Social Change Consortium (2010), 52 pp.

"The 52-page report summarised here is the result of the three-year partnership between UNDP Oslo Governance Centre and the Communication for Social Change Consortium in piloting the C4E approach in five least-developed countries: Mozambique, Madagascar, Ghana, Lao PDR, and Nepal. The report present ... more

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Health Communication in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 205-367