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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
"Culture and Crisis Communication presents an examination of how politics, culture, religion, and other social issues affect crisis communication and management in nonwestern countries. From intense human tragedy to the follies of the rich, the chapters examine how companies, organizations, news out ... more
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Enabling the Digital Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Role for Policy Reforms?

Jose Lopez-Calix, Michel Rogy et al.
World Bank Group (2017), 61 pp.
"I am glad to introduce the third edition of a series of reports aimed at discussing macroeconomic developments in the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Mali, and Niger. This series intends to foster public debates on key macroeconomic and fiscal policy options in support of poverty reduction. ... more
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Investigating Land and Corruption in Africa: A Training Manual for Journalists

Michael Schmidt, Andrea Staeritz, Michael Griffin
Berlin: Transparency International (2017), 150 pp.
"This manual is for anyone who provides training and capacity-building for investigative journalists in Africa including facilitators, trainers, lecturers and teachers. It has been written to support journalists in Africa to investigate and report stories of land corruption; a subject that remains u ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more
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Improving Maternal and Child Health Through Media in South Sudan: Final Evaluation

Trish Doherty, Karen O’Connor
London: BBC Media Action (2017), 51 pp.
"Following decades of civil war, South Sudan still lacks a functioning healthcare system and has some of the worst maternal and child health indicators in the world. To help address this, between 2012 and 2017 BBC Media Action produced and broadcast a range of national radio programmes seeking to in ... more
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Internet: Smarte neue Welt

welt-sichten, issue 12 (2017), pp. 12-42
"Digitale Medien verbreiten sich über die Welt: Auch in Madagaskar verwenden Kinder Handys. In Kenia nutzt die Regierungspartei in Wahlkämpfen bereits die gleichen Datenanalysen, die in den USA Donald Trump geholfen haben, Präsident zu werden. Und in der Wirtschaft bewirken Daten und Internet-Pla ... more
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Using Radio and Interactive ICTs to Improve Food Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Heather E. Hudson, Mark Leclair, Bernard Pelletier, Bartholomew Sullivan
Telecommunications Policy, volume 30 (2017), pp. 1-15
"The paper summarizes evidence on food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa and strategies to provide information on innovative agricultural practices to smallholder farmers. The research in this paper is then discussed within the context of research on information and communication technologies (ICTS) ... more
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Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit: Tigo Rwanda Pilot Evaluation

Alex Smith
GSMA (2017), 37 pp.
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Migration von Subsahara-Afrika nach Europa: Motive, Informationsquellen und Wahrnehmung deutschen Engagements

Anke Fiedler
Stuttgart; Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2017), 54 pp.
"In dieser Studie wird mithilfe qualitativer Fokusgruppendiskussionen mit Migranten bzw. mit Menschen mit Migrationsabsicht aus Subsahara-Afrika (i) nach Motiven für Migration, (ii) nach der Nutzung von Informationen und dem Wissen über Migration sowie (iii) nach der Rolle von Projekten der intern ... more
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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.
"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more
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Search for Common Ground’s ‘Strengthening the Capacity of Civil Society to Contribute to Sustainable Governance in Liberia’: Final Evaluation Report

Heather Gilberds, Katherina Thomas
Search for Common Ground (2017), 58 pp.
"Overall, the program set out what it achieved to do—namely to strengthen the institutional capacity of civil society organizations to improve their credibility, visibility, effectiveness and sustainability. There is evidence that many partner CSOshave refined theirmission, developed a multi-year ... more
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Perspectives from the Global Entertainment and Media Outlook 2017–2021: Curtain Up! User Experience Takes Center Stage

Price Waterhouse Coopers (pwc) (2017), 40 pp.
"To thrive in a marketplace that is increasingly competitive, slower-growing, and dependent on personal recommendations, companies must develop strategies that engage, grow, and monetize their most valuable customers — i.e., their fans. To do so, they must combine excellent content with breadth an ... more
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Community Radio in a Commercial Broadcasting Landscape: Kenya’s Koch FM

Rose N. Kimani
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 15, issue 2 (2017), pp. 195-210
"Koch FM is a community radio station located in Korogocho, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya. The station aims to provide alternative information, education and entertainment content. Producers at the station and community members who make up the station’s audience have different perceptions of Koch FM’ ... more
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Controversies and Restrictions of Visual Representation of Prophets in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture

Abdalla Uba Adamu
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17-31
"Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite ... more
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The Dilemma of Building Campus Radio Stations on a Business Model: The Case of ATL FM in Ghana

Michael Yao Wodui Serwornoo
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 60-78
"The quest for competitiveness and popularity of a campus radio station needs to be balanced with the epistemological frames of community radio, which include participation, community ownership, and opposition to hegemonic discourse in the mainstream media as well as independence from political and ... more
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New Directions in the Study of Africa–China Media and Communications Engagements

Bob Wekesa
Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 11-24
"The Africa–China media and communications field is a nascent but rapidly growing one. This paper provides an overview of the field, followed by a discussion of the theoretical pathways that can be considered as productive in taking the field forward. The paper argues for the need for rigorous the ... more
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La fabrique des classiques africains: Écrivains d'Afrique subsaharienne francophone (1960-2012)

Claire Ducournau
Paris: CNRS Éditions (2017), 442 pp.
"Comment une œuvre littéraire accède-t-elle au rang de « classique » lorsque son auteur est issu d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone, l’une des zones les plus déshéritées du monde selon les standards culturels internationaux ? Si les noms de Léopold Sédar Senghor et d’Ahmadou Kouroum ... more
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Radio Okapi Kindu: The Station That Helped Bring Peace to the Congo

Jennifer Bakody
Vancouver; Berkeley: Figure (2017), 304 pp.
"When Jennifer Bakody steps off the plane in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2004, she walks right into the hardest and most inspiring job an idealistic young journalist from Nova Scotia could ever imagine. Six years of war involving eight countries and several million deaths have just ended ... more
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Twinning Social Memory and Social Imaginary: Challenges for East African Media Policies

Ullamaija Kivikuru
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 50-73
"The article discusses the significance of the past in the planning of media policies in two neighbouring countries in Africa, namely Kenya and Tanzania. The theoretical frame is composed of four concepts: social imaginary, collective memory, domestication, and liminality. The scrutiny starts from t ... more
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Implementing constitutional language provisions through the Indigenous Language Publishing Programme

Jana Möller, Beth le Roux
South African Journal of African Language, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 203-209
"The trade publishing sector in South Africa produces books primarily in English and Afrikaans, which is not representative of the spread of languages spoken in the country. In particular, there are very few books published for general readers in the local African languages. The Indigenous Language ... more