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Análise de género na mídia moçambicana 2014

Maputo: IREX (2015), 32 pp.

"O Programa Para Fortalecimento da Mídia, nesta sua terceira edição do relatório de Análise de Género na Mídia Moçambicana, avaliou 13 jornais impressos e electrónicos para identificar o estado da cobertura sobre o tema. Foram quatro a mais que no ano passado. No total, e em números absolu ... more

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Carola Richter, Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.

"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei ... more

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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students

Leketi Makalela

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418

"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi ... more

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Von "De Voortrekkers" bis "Tsotsi"

Martin Botha

Afrika Süd, issue 1 (2015), pp. 35-37

"In Südafrika gibt es seit 120 Jahren Kino und Filmproduktionen. Die südafrikanische Filmindustrie zählt zur ältesten weltweit. Bereits 1895 zog das erste Kinetoscope in Johannesburg Zuschauer an. Jahrzehntelang von der Ideologie des burischen Nationalismus dominiert, muss sich die heutige Films ... more

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Study on ACP Technicians and Actors Involved in Movies Supported by EU-ACP Funds (8th, 9th, 10th EDF)

Lucas Rosant

ECO;Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP);European Union (2015), 182 pp.

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De l'éducation par les médias à l'éducation aux médias

Alain Kiyindou, Francis Barbey, Laurence Corroy-Labardens (eds.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 334 pp.

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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey

GSMA;Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.

"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more

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Reflections on Elections in a Dominant Party State

Helge Rønning

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 149-155

"In my opinion it is too easy to conclude whether eleetion coverage in the media is balanced, solely based on quantitative data. Although this is obviously important, other aspects are equaliy important, particularly in a country such as Mozambique, where the written press does not penetrate much. A ... more

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Journalism, Audiences and Diaspora

Ola Ogunyemi (ed.)

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xix, 256 pp.

"This collection takes the study of diasporic communication beyond the level of simply praising its existence, to offering critical engagements and analysis with the systems of journalistic production, process and consumption practices as they relate to people who are living outside the borders of t ... more

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Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2015), 152 pp.

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Testing the Influence of Radio Programs on Climate Change Knowledge: A Pilot Experience from the Congo Basin

Alba Saray Perez-Teran, Anne Marie Tiani, Merline Touko-Tchoko, Bérenger Tchatchou

Bogor Barat (ID): Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (2015), v, 17 pp.

"We provide an assessment of the change in knowledge of a rural village in the Congo Basin after inhabitants listened to one of the radio programs that were prepared on climate change. The document also provides potential indicators for result up-scaling. After applying a micro-economic model to a c ... more

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Book Donation Programmes for Africa: Time for a Reappraisal? Part I

Hans M. Zell, Raphaël Thierry

Zell Publishing Consultants (2015), 109 pp.

"This investigation attempts to shed more light on current book donation practices, and provides an overview and profiles of the work of the principal book aid organizations active in the English-speaking parts of sub-Saharan Africa; describing how they differ in their approach and strategies, donat ... more

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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Winston Mano (ed.)

London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.

"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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A Community of Communities? Emerging Dynamics in the Community Media Paradigm

Christopher Ali

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23

"Recent years have seen numerous attempts by community broadcasters around the world to reinvent their practices in an effort to remain relevant and financially sustainable in the digital age. One proposed initiative is to have community programming distributed via satellite, either in the form of a ... more

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Three Waves of Media Repression in Zimbabwe

Everette Ndlovua

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 25-44

"This article seeks to highlight how the media – especially radio – have always been used in Zimbabwe to consolidate the power of the government. This invariably led to oppositional media emerging from outside the country, giving the populace access to alternative discourses from those churned o ... more

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When the Subaltern Speaks: Citizen Journalism and Genocide ‘victims’ Voices Online

Shepherd Mpofu

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 82-101

"The study uses online observation and critical discourse analysis (CDA) to examine how ‘Ndebeles’ [= Ndebele-speaking people of Zimbabwe] discuss the 1980s genocide and how citizen journalism has generally revolutionised their participation in debates silenced by the ruling elite. What strongly ... more

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The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: A Positive Agenda for Human Rights Online

Tom Orrell

London: Global Partners Digital (2015), 20 pp.

"The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms was drafted by African civil society organisations to guide the creation of a positive, rights-based and democratically governed Internet policy environment in Africa. The initiative is part of a rich heritage of freedom of expression advocacy ... more

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The Developmental and Political Role of Africa’s Pentecostal Churches

Paul Gifford

KAS International Reports, issue 10 (2015), pp. 81-94

"Primarily and immediately these churches are not aimed at development or politics; they are not NGOs or elements of civil society promoting the rights of a particular group, so it would be a mistake to judge them exclusively on criteria appropriate to such bodies. They are religious bodies, with re ... more

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Media, Conflict, and Political Transitions in Africa

Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone

In: Media and Politics in New Democracies: Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Jan Zielonka (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2015), pp. 289-302

"In this chapter, we explore the role of the media in the context of Africa's broader democratization trends through an examination of three main areas: the media as political actors in conflict; the challenge of looking beyond formal state structures to informal governance in order to better unders ... more

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