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Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South: Context, Theory and Method

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"Including original essays and contemporary case studies spanning Africa, Middle East, Latin America, and Asia, this book provides a nuanced double critique of both local and West‑centric approaches, pushing back against historically extractive audience research logics that have marginalised globa ... more
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Information Manipulation in Sudan: A Baseline Assessment of Actors, Narratives and Tactics

Aida Al-Kaisy, Amal Hamdan
Thomson Foundation (2026), 81 pp.
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Perpetrators in Documentaries on Genocide

Julian Koch
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2026), 268 pp.
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Climate Change Communication in Africa

Tendai Chari, Allen Munoriyarwa (eds.)
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Global Screen Worlds: Conversations across Cinema Cultures

Lindiwe Dovey, Kate Taylor-Jones, Georgia Thomas-Parr (eds.)
New York et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2026), xx, 348 pp.
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Regulating New Media in Africa: Politics, Law and Governance

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Community Media, Sustainability and Crisis Lessons from Covid and Beyond

Andrew Ó Baoill, Salvatore Scifo (eds.)
Bloomsbury Academic (2026), 214 pp.
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Oral Histories of Genocide in Bosnia, Indonesia, and Rwanda: Symbolic Violence and Social Death

Erin Jessee, Annie Pohlman
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2026), 408 pp.
"Grounded in extensive oral historical, archival, and ethnographic research in the aftermaths of the Bosnian (1992-95), Indonesian (1965-66), and Rwandan (1994) genocides, this book investigates the symbolic meanings associated with spectacular forms of torture, murder, and mutilation that perpetrat ... more
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Disinformation: A Multi-Disciplinary Analysis
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Lisa Ginsborg, Paula Gori (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2026), xvi, 654 pp.
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Handbook of Global Oral History
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Mark Cave, Selma Leydesdorff (eds.)
Leiden: Brill (2026), x, 699 pp.
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A New Era or Error? Community Radio Licensing in Zimbabwe: Issues, Dynamics, and Sustainability Challenges

Makhosi Nkanyiso Sibanda, Buhle Nkomo
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 32, issue 1 (2025), pp. 24-47
"The Zimbabwean government has been criticized across scholarship for its lack of sincerity in ensuring media plurality, especially in the radio broadcasting sector. In 2020, when community radio stations were granted licenses for the first-time in the post-Mugabe era, the Mnangagwa-led government w ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Digital Journalism

Bruce Mutsvairo, Kristin Skare Orgeret (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xxi, 444 pp.
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Ruanda 1994 bis heute: Vom Vorhof der Hölle zum Modell für Afrika - Wahrheit und Schein in Ruanda

Gerd Hankel
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2025), 170 pp.
"1994 kam es in Ruanda zu einem Völkermord, bei dem radikale Angehörige der Bevölkerungsgruppe der Hutus innerhalb von drei Monaten Hundertausende Menschen aus der Tutsi-Minderheit wie auch viele gemäßigte Hutus umbrachten. Gut 30 Jahre später gilt Ruanda vor allem in Europa und den USA als Vo ... more
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Unpacking the African media typology: Perspectives from journalists in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda

Meghan Sobel Cohen
International Communication Gazette, volume 87, issue 7 (2025), pp. 633-656
"The uniqueness of journalism cultures across African nations often highlights the inapplicability of normative, Western-centric theories. The newly proposed African media typology suggests that media systems in Africa would be best understood by thinking about them within the context of the type of ... more
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Contemporary Contested Ethiopian Media Practice and Its Influence on Journalists’ Autonomy and Role

Abera Yenework Kebede, Adem Chanie Ali, Mulatu Alemayehu Moges
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 11 (2025), pp. 2549-2575
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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
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Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Corinna Lauerer, Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova (eds.)
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.
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Media Capture in Africa and Latin America: Power and Resistance

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Bethia Pearson (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2025), xliii, 388 pp.
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Posting “what” on social media? The (mis-)use of Facebook by young people in refugee camps

Valentina Baú
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, volume 23, issue 1 (2025), pp. 134-147
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Télécoms en Mauritanie: L’impact des crédits de communication

Taghi Cheikhna Mohamed Taghioullah
Paris: L'Harmattan (2025), xviii, 224 pp.
"Cet ouvrage propose une lecture croisée du marketing et de la régulation dans le secteur des télécommunications mauritanien. À partir des comportements d’achat de crédit de communication, il interroge les enjeux de transparence tarifaire, d’équité et de gouvernance publique. L’auteur ... more