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Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132

"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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Media Freedom and Right to Information in Africa

Luca Bussotti, Miguel de Barros, Tilo Grätz (eds.)

Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Internacionais do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (2015), 136 pp.

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Mapping BRICS Media

Kaarle Nordenstreng, Daya Kishan Thussu (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 272 pp.

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Patronage, Politics and Performance: Radio Call-In Programmes and the Myth of Accountability

Nicole Stremlau, Emanuele Fantini, Iginio Gagliardone

Third World Quarterly, volume 36, issue 8 (2015), pp. 1510-1526

"Assumptions about the role of call-in programmes as open spaces for pubic engagement and accountability often fail to account for the influence of existing power structures and multiple publics engaging in these programmes for a variety of reasons. Furthermore, the history of call-in programmes rev ... more

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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.

"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more

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All Answers: On the Phenomenal Success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa

Ilana van Wyk

In: Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies

Lindhardt Lindhardt (ed.)

Leiden: Brill (2015), pp. 136-162

"The UCKG’s phenomenal success in post-apartheid South Africa had been a source of much speculation. Scholars generally attributed the church’s growth to new political and economic processes while the South African media and the church’s critics suspected that the UCKG’s attraction was caref ... more

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La liberté des médias en Guinée: Entre textes et institutions, quelles réalités?

Moustapha Diané

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 155 pp.

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Can Tanzania’s News Media Maintain Popular Support for Watchdog Role?

Rose Aiko

Afrobarometer (2015), 13 pp.

"Tanzanians express near-unanimous satisfaction with the degree of freedom of expression in the country: 96% of respondents in 2014 say they feel somewhat or completely free to say what they think. Two-thirds (65%) say the media should scrutinize the government and report on corruption and mistakes. ... more

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Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education

Eliza M. Govender, Sertanya Reddy

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 243-261

"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr ... more

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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405

"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more

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Liberia: Situation of Media Broadcasting

Internews (2015), 1 p.

"This map shows the locations of radio stations in Liberia." (Internews website)

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Proverbes Du Bénin: Sagesse éthique Appliquée De Proverbes Africains = Benin Proverbs: Practical Ethical Wisdom from African Proverbs

Angèle Kolouchè Bíao, Aurélien Atídegla (eds.)

Geneva: Globethics.net (2015), xxx, 95 pp.

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Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas

John Baptist Imokola

Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.

"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man ... more

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Community Radio as a Tool for Development: A Case Study of Community Radio Stations in Malawi

Peter Matthews Mhagama

Leicester: University of Leicester, Doctoral Thesis (2015), xv, 342 pp.

"The thesis investigates community radio as a tool for development drawing on case studies of Nkhotakota and Mzimba community radio stations in Malawi. The thesis employs communication for development and ‘another’ development theories to help understand the role of community radio in developmen ... more

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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 72 pp.

"This report examines self-regulation in challenging times. Journalism is increasingly a single stream of information disseminated simultaneously across different platforms of media, but its regulation remains dominated by old-fashioned notions of how media work. Usually there are two ways of regula ... more

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Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015: We Are Social's Compendium of Global Digital Statistics

Simon Kemp

Singapore: We Are Social (2015), 372 slides

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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?

Suzanne Franks

In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media

Simon Cottle; Glenda. Cooper (eds.)

Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166

"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term ... more

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Radio silence: Burundi’s media during the 2015 election crisis

Michelle Betz

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 19 pp.

"This desk study was commissioned by International Media Support (IMS) for the purposes of providing information to colleagues in the media support sector and to donors so that they may be better informed when devising and deciding on appropriate intervention strategies [...] Research for this repor ... more

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From Crisis to Transition: Media in Burkina Faso

Michelle Betz

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 23 pp.

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The Trust Factor: An EJN Review of Journalism and Self-Regulation
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