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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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Reincarnating Clandestine Radio in Post-Independent Zimbabwe

Dumisani Moyo
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 8, issue 1 (2010), pp. 23-36
"This article analyses the re-emergence of clandestine radio in post-independence Zimbabwe, and how it has become an important tool for disseminating alternative viewpoints in an environment where democratic communicative space is restricted. The article focuses specifically on SW Radio Africa, one ... more
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Publishing and Alternative Licensing Models in Africa: Comparative Analysis of the South African and Ugandan PALM Studies

Eve Gray, Andrew Rens, Karen Bruns
Cape Town; Ottawa: Association for Creative Research and Development; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), 117 pp.
Publishing and Alternative Licensing Models in Africa (PALM Africa) has been a two-country research programme conducted in South Africa and Uganda, using action research to explore the potential of open access and flexible and open intellectual property licences with the aim of enhancing the impact ... more
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SMS Uprising: Mobile Phone Activism in Africa
Deep Insights

Sokari Ekine (ed.)
Cape Town: Pambazuka Press (2010), xxii, 149 pp.
"This collection of essays by those engaged in using mobile phone technologies for social change provides an analysis of the socio-economic, political and media contexts faced by activists in Africa today. The essays address a broad range of issues including inequalities in access to technology base ... more
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Farm Radio: An Effective Tool for Increasing Access to Agricultural Extension Messages by Small Scale Farmers in Malawi. Proceedings Report of the 1st Annual Farm Radio Symposium

Lilongwe; Ottawa: Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security, Department of Agricultural Extension Services; Farm Radio International (2010), ix, 59 pp.
"This paper discusses the effectiveness of farm radio as a tool for enhancing access to agricultural extension services by small scale farmers in Malawi. It outlines the current agricultural extension policies, methodologies and the role that radio can play in improving food security and communicati ... more
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Mozambique

Tomás Vieira Mário
Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)
Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), xi, 145 pp.
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Lesotho Highlands Water Project: Communications Practices for Governance and Sustainabilty Improvement

Lawrence J. M. Haas, Leonardo Mazzei, Donal T. O'Leary
Washington, DC: World Bank (2010), xiv, 40 pp.
"The multipurpose Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) is designed to transfer water from the water-abundant highlands of Lesotho to the Gauteng region of South Africa (its industrial heartland) and provide hydropower to Lesotho through a series of dams, weirs, delivery tunnels, and associated inf ... more
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Comparative Media Systems: European and Global Perspectives

Boguslawa Dobek-Ostrowska, Michal Glowacki, Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd (eds.)
Budapest; New York: Central European University Press (2010), xiv, 290 pp.
"Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the e ... more
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Health Communication in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 205-367
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Language, Cultural and Communication Rights of Ethnic Minorities in South Africa

Last Moyo
International Communication Gazette, volume 72, issue 4-5 (2010), pp. 425-440
"This article focuses on ethnic and linguistic minorities and radio broadcasting in South Africa. It examines the country’s language, cultural and broadcasting policies and their potential impact on the participation of ethnic minorities in radio broadcasting. In particular, special focus is given ... more
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Annual Report 2009-2010

Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2010), 146 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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Mobile Communications in Zambia: A Demand Side Analysis Based on the AudienceScapes Survey, Including Insights on Mobile Money Use

David Montes
Washington, DC: Intermedia (2010), 54 pp.
"Youth and young adults (15-29) are often assumed to be leaders in mobile phone use, but this is not entirely the case in Zambia. While those 15 to 29 make up the largest segment of overall mobile phone users, they do not show the highest rate of weekly (regular) users that is taken by those 30 to 4 ... more
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Tabloid Journalism in South Africa: True Story!

Herman Wasserman
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010), xvi, 218 pp.
"Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the country by storm. One of these papers—the Daily Sun—is now the largest in the country, but it has generated controversy for its perceived lack of respect for privacy, brazen sexual content, and u ... more
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Right to memory

Media Development, volume 57, issue 2 (2010), pp. 3-59
"How reliable are the mass media’s stories and images of yesterday let alone of the more remote past? Only by rigorously cross-checking different sources of public or cultural memory might one reach a point that is reasonably balanced and accurate – an exercise in triangulating memory’s ever ... 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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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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Contemporary Issues in South Africa: A Toolkit for Journalists

Tanya Farber
Open Society Foundation for South Africa (2009), 60 pp.
"In today’s climate in the media industry, reporters are expected to cover a broad range of issues. They no longer have the luxury of concentrating on a small piece of a larger puzzle, and at times, they may feel as if they need a better understanding of the background information before moving fo ... more
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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.
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Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Peter Bates, Moe Chiba, Sabine Kube, Douglas Nakashima (eds.)
Paris: UNESCO (2009), 127 pp.
"The book is organised into three sections. The first addresses the link between indigenous knowledge and indigenous language, and explores the opportunities this interconnection provides for understanding and countering declines in both. The second section examines how the loss of indigenous knowle ... more