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Sisanda Nkoala, Gilbert Motsaathebe (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xxvii, 185 pp.
"The book brings together media scholars and practitioners to deliberate on the role and influence of radio broadcasting in South Africa over the past 100 years. The publication will add to the existing body of knowledge on radio in this context by being among one of the few to consider radio broadc ... more
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Chinese Media Engagement with Africa and the Role of African Agency: The Cases of Kenya and Ethiopia

Hangwei Li
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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Heidi Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong (eds.)
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag ... more
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Eyewitness Textures: User-Generated Content and Journalism in the Twenty-First Century

Michael Lithgow, Michèle Martin
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2024), 365 pp.
"News consumers have come to expect and demand the unprecedented immediacy of experience and coverage of breaking news offered by photographs, video clips, audio recordings, tweets, commentary: content created by ordinary citizens. The use of user-generated content is a salient aspect of how journal ... more
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Taking AI Ethics from Principles to Practice: A Guide to Implementing Responsible AI

Samuel Segun
African Observatory on Responsible AI (2024), 24 pp.
"While numerous ethical frameworks for AI exist, translating them into actionable policies for responsible development in Africa remains a challenge for several reasons which would be discussed in subsequent sections. More importantly, it is expedient to build frameworks that are reflective of the s ... more
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Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries

Philippe Bouquillion, Christine Ithurbide, Tristan Mattelart (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This book addresses the issues raised by digital platforms in the Global South, with an emphasis on the cultural stakes involved. It brings together an interdisciplinary team of researchers - including political economists, socio-economists, geographers, media sociologists or anthropologists - who ... more
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Journalism and Elections in Sub-Saharan Africa: Locating the Democratic Deficit

Philip Santos
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2024), 12 pp.
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Listening to the World - 100 Jahre Radiokunst #2 = 100 Years of Radio Art #2. Berlin October 19, 2024

Berlin; Weimar: Goethe-Institut; Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Professur Experimentelles Radio; Deutschlandfunk Kultur; Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2024), 20 pp.
"Listening to the World — 100 Years of Radio Art takes the 100 year anniversary of Radio Art in Germany as an opportunity to inquire radio and listening as global phenomena with visible and invisible worldwide connections. On 19 October 2024, the multiformat programme presents perspectives and pra ... more
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Forte FM’s Programming Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in Alice, South Africa

Oluyinka Osunkunle
Communicatio, volume 50, issue 3 (2024), pp. 106-124
"The advent of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in 2019 brought great fear of the unknown to the whole world. It therefore became very important for people and nations around the world to get the needed information on how to cope with the novel virus. Community radio broadcasting was at t ... more
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Namibians head for elections with confidence in the freedom of their press

Asafika Mpako, Stephen Ndoma
Afrobarometer (2024), 8 pp.
"According to the most recent Afrobarometer survey, Namibians value media freedom and broadly agree that the media should act as a watchdog over the government, constantly investigating and reporting on government mistakes and corruption. A majority say media freedom does exist in practice in their ... more
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L’immobilisation pour horizon. Fabrique et enjeux d’un instrument européen de dissuasion migratoire en Afrique de l’Ouest : les « campagnes d’information et de sensibilisation »

Julia Van Dessel
Bruxelles: Université Libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales, Thèse de Doctorat (2024), ?? pp.
"Cette thèse porte sur les « campagnes d’information et de sensibilisation » sur la migration financées par l’Union européenne (UE) et ses États membres (EM) en Afrique de l’Ouest. Il s’agit d’un instrument de dissuasion migratoire, utilisé par l’UE depuis les années 1990, dont l ... more
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Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption

Minna Aslama Horowitz, Hannu Nieminen, Katja Lehtisaari, Alessandro D'Arma (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan; International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2024), 226 pp.
"This open-access volume argues that in a functioning democracy, citizens should be equally capable of making informed choices about matters of social importance. This includes citizens accessing all relevant information and knowledge necessary for informed will formation. In today's complex era of ... more
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Impact Assessment: Rural Household Devices Project Program of the Uganda Communications Universal Service Access Fund (UCUSAF)

Evelyn Namara, Ingrid Brudvig
Alexandria, VA; Kampala: Global Digital Inclusion Partnership; Uganda Communications Commission (2024), 46 pp.
"The impact assessment underscores the commendable achievements of the Rural Household Devices project. By December 2023, the initiative had successfully reached 54 districts and impacted 10,706 households. The outcomes are multifaceted and transformative, with a substantial number of beneficiaries ... more
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African Media Portrayals of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi

Brooke Chambers, J. Siguru Wahutu
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 2436-2455
"Much has been written about the media coverage of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. However, with few exceptions, much of this work has often focused on how the journalism fields from the global North framed the genocide, with little work on how African fields covered it. This article eschews th ... more
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Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report?

Umaru A Pate, Abubakar Jibril
Journalism, volume 26, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1288-1306
"This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Finding ... more
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Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa

Emma Heywood
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 239 pp.
"This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women's empower ... more