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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.

Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100

"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more

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Du journalisme en Côte d'Ivoire

Francis Barbey, Zio Moussa

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 150 pp.

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Éducation aux médias à l'heure des réseaux

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

Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 321 pp.

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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515

"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)

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#newactors, #oldproblems: How the Digital Sphere is Changing the Information Process and the Media Landscape in Africa

Christian Echle

KAS International Reports, volume 31, issue 8 (2015), pp. 6-20

"Blogs and online content contribute significantly to opinion diversity in Africa today. Because of that, they are increasingly monitored by federal agencies, which aim to more strictly define the grey zone between journalism, blog-writing and opinion stating in social media. It is especially agains ... more

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Du pluralisme au Darwinisme: Réflexions sur vingt années d'appui aux radios africaines

Johan Deflander

In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)

Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 41-59

"Johan Deflander revient sur 25 années d'évolution du secteur radiophonique. Il montre comment les multiples nouveaux opérateurs, nombre d'entre eux se présentant comme la voix des sans voix, ont libéré la parole, mais rencontrent aujourd'hui des problèmes de pérennisation, en raison de leur ... more

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Video Games Around the World
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Mark J. P. Wolf (ed.)

Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press (2015), xiv, 697 pp.

"Video games have become a global industry, and their history spans dozens of national industries where foreign imports compete with domestic productions, legitimate industry contends with piracy, and national identity faces the global marketplace. This volume describes video game history and cultur ... more

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New Political Economies of Film Distribution for South Africa's Townships? A Critical Survey of the ReaGilè Concept

Nyasha Mboti, Keyan Tomaselli

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (2015), pp. 621-643

"ReaGilès are pre-fabricated, self-contained, education and entertainment complexes situated on 400m2 sites at local schools or public open spaces consisting of a 60-seat cinema, 30- seat computer and Internet facility, community care and policing centre. These complexes are intended to service his ... more

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Les radios communautaires en Afrique de l'Ouest: Moteur de la gouvernance démocratique locale

Diana Senghor

In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)

Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 81-99

"L'article examine en particulier la relation entre les radios dites communautaires et la gouvernance locale. Se fondant sur l'exemple du Sénégal, elle montre comment la décentralisation politique et administrative d'une part et l'émergence des radios locales d'autre part ont été deux dynamiqu ... more

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Radios communautaires en RDC: Pluralisme bénéfique ou floraison des moutons noirs?

François Pascal Mbumba Mpanzu

In: Médias d'Afrique: Bingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)

Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 101-115

"[...] François Pascal Mbumba [écrit] sur la situation de ces médias particuliers en République démocratique du Congo, un pays qui se distingue par le caractère foisonnant de son secteur radiophonique qui compte actuellement plus de 500 stations. Les radios communautaires congolaises évoluent ... more

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Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

Savita Bailur, Jonathan Donner et al.

Farnham: Caribou Digital Publishing (2015), 186 pp.

"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli ... more

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Rapport de l’evaluation finale du projet «Informorac Bandundu»: Initiative de formation mobile des radios communautaires, RD. Congo, 2011 - 2014

Mary Myers, Pascal Chirhalwirwa

Free Press Unlimited (2015), 70 pp.

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Community Radio and Empowerment of Women Among Pastoralist Communities in Northern Kenya

Hezron Mogambi, Abiya P. Ochola

Online Journal of Communication and Media Technologies, volume 5, issue 4 (2015), pp. 29-63

"This paper focuses on the contribution of a community radio (Serian Radio) to community empowerment of women among pastoralist communities in Northern Kenya. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 4 divisions for the study. Data was gathered to determine the extent to which women parti ... more

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Social media as a heteroglossic discursive space and Kenya's emergent alternative/citizen experiment

George Ogola

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 4 (2015), pp. 66-81

"This article critically reflects on how social media platforms such as Twitter (read here as a heteroglossic text and space) enable and encourage public participation in wider national conversations. The article explores this through the work of key bloggers/activists and citizen journalists, refle ... more

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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives

Lenuta Giukin, Janina Falkowska, David Desser (eds.)

Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.

"Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities. ... more

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Humanitarianism 2.0

Guillaume Bazerli, Theresa Bean, Angela Crandall et al.

Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.

"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio ... more

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Global Support for Principle of Free Expression, But Opposition to Some Forms of Speech

Richard Wike, Katie Simmons

Pew Research Center (2015), 58 pp.

"Although many observers have documented a global decline in democratic rights in recent years, people around the world nonetheless embrace fundamental democratic values, including free expression. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that majorities in nearly all 38 nations polled say it is at le ... more

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African Ethics and Journalism Ethics: News and Opinion in Light of Ubuntu

Thaddeus Metz

Journal of Media Ethics, volume 30, issue 2 (2015), pp. 74-90

"In this article, I address some central issues in journalism ethics from a fresh perspective, namely, one that is theoretical and informed by values salient in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a foundational moral theory with an African pedigree, which is intended to rival Western theories such as Ka ... more

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Where Have All the Textbooks Gone? Toward Sustainable Provision of Teaching and Learning Materials in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Tony Read

Washington, DC: World Bank Group (2015), xxiii, 266 pp.

"The key role of textbooks and other teaching and learning materials (TLMs) in enhancing the quality of learning is almost universally recognized. Numerous factors are involved in provision of TLMs, including curriculum, literacy and numeracy, language of instruction policy, procurement and distribu ... more

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Fantômas sous les tropiques: Aller au cinéma en Afrique coloniale

Odile Goerg

Paris: Eds. Vendémiaire (2015), 285 pp.

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