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Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State

Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers (eds.)

Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 228 pp.

"Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left b ... more

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Diamonds Are Forever? Press Coverage of African Conflicts and the Westphalian Filter of Resource Wars

Christopher R. Cook

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 109-126

"This article argues that when it comes to reporting conflicts in the developing world the western press ignores the private sphere of economic activity because it privileges a narrative of people fighting over the nation state, as well as political ideologies and territory gained and lost. This cho ... more

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Survey on Children’s Readership Preferences and Market Demands for Children’s Reading Materials in Rwanda

Hannah Mathews

Save the Children (2016), 57 pp.

"A qualitative study into the readership preferences of children in Rwanda, from the perspective of over seventy children under the age of nine from around the country, and ten key publishing houses in Kigali." (Abstract)

Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.

"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more

Mobilities, ICTs and Marginality in Africa: Comparative Perspectives

Francis Nyamnjoh, Ingrid Brudvig (eds.)

Cape Town: HSRC Press (2016), ix, 244 pp.

"The book aims to situate the cultural, social and, in some cases, transnational context of ICT appropriation and virtual connectivity so as to reposition Africans from various countries and contexts as active agents of social change. The intricacies of local ICT use and the dynamics of mobility in ... more

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The Bible revisited: Neue Zugänge im Film

Reinhold Zwick, Peter Hasenberg (eds.)

Marburg: Schüren (2016), 352 pp.

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State Interference, Para-Politics and Editorial Control: The Political Economy of ‘Mirrorgate’ in Zimbabwe

Oswelled Ureke

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 17-34

"This article explores the events leading to the closure of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG) in 2007. It narrates how the state in Zimbabwe, through its intelligence arm, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), covertly took over the privately owned newspaper stable, publishers of th ... more

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Elections Communication Guide

Gilbert Tietaah

Legon (GH): Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2016), 32 pp.

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Reporting on the Independence of the Belgian Congo: Mwissa Camus, the Dean of Congolese Journalists

Marie Fierens

African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 81-99

"Many individuals were involved in the Belgian Congo's attainment of independence. Born in 1931, Mwissa Camus, the dean of Congolese journalists, is one of them. Even though he was opposed to this idea and struggled to maintain his status as member of a certain ‘elite’, his career sheds light on ... more

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Capacity Building, Tertiary Postgraduate Interventions and the Changing Media Environment in Southern and Eastern Africa

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 205-218

"An academic revolution in higher education during the past half century has been marked by transformations unprecedented in scope and diversity. Simultaneously, the significant changes in the ‘mediascape’ of southern and eastern Africa over the past two decades have replaced total state control ... more

Solar Powered Transmission: A Case Study from South Sudan

Issa Kassimu, Natalie Chang, Ann Charles

The Radio Community (TRC);Internews (2016), 62 pp.

"This document takes an in-depth look at the conversion to 100% solar power operation at a small community radio station called Mayardit FM in Turalei, South Sudan. Since the installation of the solar system in March 2016, the station has operated on 100% solar power (including its transmission), br ... more

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Afrika: Geschichte eines Kontinents

Lutz van Dijk

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2016), 319 pp.

"Lutz van Dijks spannende Geschichte Afrikas - die er vor allem für junge LeserInnen geschrieben hat - [...] beleuchtet unzählige Facetten des Kontinents. Sie beginnt bei der Entstehung des Erdteils und den ersten Menschen, die von hier aus in alle Welt wanderten. Sie erzählt von den frühen Hoch ... more

Soft Power Development: The Values and Priorities of Foreign Media Interventions in South Sudan

Valerie A. Cooper

In: Intersections Between Public Diplomacy and International Development: Case Studies in Converging Fields

James Pamment (ed.)

Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2016), pp. 77-102

"According to the methodology (page 81-82), the basis of this research "is a rhetorical analysis of literature concerning journalism training programs conducted by international development organizations in South Sudan since the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in order to determine the valu ... more

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National Survey Into the Reading and Book Reading Behaviour of Adult South Africans 2016

South African Book Development Council;TNS (2016), 103 pp.

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Binary Opposites – Can South African Journalists be Both Watchdogs and Developmental Journalists?

Arnold S. De Beer, Vanessa Malila, Sean Beckett, Herman Wasserman

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 35-53

"This article challenges the traditional role ascribed by liberal and developmental media theory that journalists should either be watchdogs or developmental journalists but not both at the same time. As part of the South African leg of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project this article argues that ... more

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Silencing the Voice of the Voiceless: The Destruction of the Independent Broadcasting Sector in Burundi

Marie-Soleil Frère

African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 1 (2016), pp. 137-146

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"Like Fish in Poisonous Waters": Attacks on Media Freedom in Somalia

New York: Human Rights Watch (2016), 85 pp.

"This report focuses on abuses by state and non-state actors against journalists and other media workers since 2014. It is based on over 50 interviews with journalists working throughout south-central Somalia and Puntland, the semi-autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. Beyond killings, attempted ... more

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Protéger les libertés de presse et d'expression en RD Congo: Fondements juridiques et rôles du pouvoir judiciaire

Charles-M. Mushizi

Kinshasa: Internews;USAID (2016), 97 pp.

"[...] la présente brochure analyse le cadre juridique dans lequel s’inscrit la collaboration du pouvoir judiciaire avec les autres structures institutionnelles et non institutionnelles engagées dans le domaine de la liberté de la presse. Elle explique ensuite l’importance de l’information, ... 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