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Representing Gender-Based Violence: Global Perspectives
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xvii 314 pp.
"This book focuses on the politics, ethics and stereotypical pitfalls of representational practices surrounding Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from a global perspective. The originality of the volume is linked to its cross-disciplinary perspective as the topic of representing GBV is analyzed across the
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Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy: Lessons from Journalists in East Africa
New York: Oxford University Press (2023), 176 pp.
"Press Freedom and the (Crooked) Path Toward Democracy uses the perceptions of journalists in Rwanda, Uganda, and Kenya to examine mediascapes at varying stages of development and democracy-building—Rwanda, which experienced a genocide in 1994, is in relatively early (though fast-paced) stages of
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The Unfreedom Monitor: Cameroon Country Report
Amsterdam: Global Voices Advox (2023), 22 pp.
"This research indicates that the government criminalises free speech by using a vague and broad definition of fake news, and clamps down on dissent and criticism, and that journalists who criticise the government are seen as enemies of the state — as in the case of the jailing of Kingsley Fomunyu
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Digital Dissidence and Social Media Censorship in Africa
London; New York: Routledge (2023), 292 pp.
"Drawing on cases from across the continent, contributors explore the form and nature of social media and government censorship, often via antisocial media laws, or less overt tactics such as state cybersurveillance, spyware attacks on social media activists, or the artful deployment of the rhetoric
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Preparing to publish: How journalists negotiate content restrictions in semi-authoritarian states
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 120-140
"Journalists act strategically in response to their political environments, using practices like self-censorship to avoid negative repercussions from powerful actors. But what does self-censorship look like in practice? Grounded in theories of policy response and media sociology, this study uses jou
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Film Practice in the Context of War in Greater North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Film Message as a Tool for Peace
Nairobi: Daystar University, Doctoral Thesis (2023), xii, 348 pp.
"Greater North Kivu is a region in the East of the DRC characterized by an unending socio-cultural and political crisis that has brought about insecurity, war, massacres, and land conflicts since 1996. Efforts to resolve this war crisis to restore justice and peace have not been successful. The aim
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Journalism in Cameroon: A High-Risk and Dangerous Profession?
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 461-476
"These are challenging times for practicing journalism safely in Cameroon. Death in pretrial detention is one extreme form of silencing journalists, although arbitrary arrests, intimidation, harassment, and trumped-up charges are also used, not only during turbulence and armed conflicts, but also in
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Denial of Genocides in the Twenty-First Century
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xvi, 400 pp.
"Throughout the twenty-first century, genocide denial has evolved and adapted with new strategies to augment and complement established modes of denial. In addition to outright negation, denial of genocide encompasses a range of techniques, including disputes over numbers, contestation of legal defi
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Memetizing genocides and post-genocide peacebuilding: Ambivalent implications of memes for youth participation and imaginaries in Rwanda
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 16 (2023), pp. 3157-3178
"In contexts where young people feel prohibited from reflecting openly on sensitive political issues, they may explore alternative ways to communicate and negotiate their opinions and beliefs. Internet memes are popular digital artifacts that offer a space for such debates. This research focuses on
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Beyond the Humanitarian Savior Logics? UNHCR's Public Communication Strategies for the Syrian and Central African Crises
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 2 (2023), pp. 164-190
"Forcibly displaced people often face restrictive migration policies and stereotypical discourses. Therefore, this study analyzes UNHCR's public communication strategies towards the Syrian and Central African crises. Through a comparative-synchronic multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) of U
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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 832 pp.
"This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development
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Égalité de genre dans la politique numérique au Burundi
Geneva: ITU (2023), v, 32 pp.
Chad's Transition: Easing Tensions Online
N'Djamena; Brussels: International Crisis Group (2022), 22 pp.
"Following years of government shutdowns, social media has become both freer and more influential in Chadian politics – particularly since the country entered a political transition with the death of President Idriss Déby in April 2021. While it has democratised political participation, social me
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Broadcasting and the Portuguese Empire: The Case of São Tomé and Príncipe
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 29, issue 1 (2022), pp. 136-155
"The colonial essence of the Portuguese nation was one of the pillars of Estado Novo (1933–1974). During this period, the media were largely used as a tool for promoting the cohesion of the territories, firstly embodying an Imperial mystique, and after the second World War, arguing for the excepti
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COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp.
"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be
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La communication sauvera l’Afrique
Kinshasa: Editions Baobab (2022), 159 pp.
"Sauver l'Afrique, c'est aussi soigner son image. La métaphore du selfie, de l'autoportrait doit nous inspirer. Les chrétiens africains ont un rôle particulier, d'annoncer de bonnes nouvelles à l'Afrique et de l'Afrique. Je publie ce recueil de textes à l'occasion de mes quarante ans de pratiqu
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Visual Cultures of Africa
Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp.
"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre
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Femmes et médias au Congo. L'information de proximité en journalisme: Mon combat
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 159 pp.
"Devenir journaliste fait rêver bon nombre des Congolais. Un métier noble dont la pratique doit allier non seulement analyse et relationnel, mais aussi travail de terrain. Une option nécessaire à l’évaluation de l’éthique et de la déontologie enseignées à l’école, mais dont l’exerc
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Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
Deep Insights
London: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 240 pp.
"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North Amer
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