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Sociedade Civil, Comunicação e Advocacia em São Tomé e Príncipe

Alexandro Cardoso, Ana Filipa Oliveira, José Cardoso Eduardo Elba Edson Moniz, Liadilma Alves et al.

ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 128 pp.

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Provincializing Hegemonic Histories of Media and Communication Studies: Toward a Genealogy of Epistemic Resistance in Africa

Wendy Willems

Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 415-434

"In the late 1990s and 2000s, a number of calls were made by scholars to "internationalize" or "dewesternize" the field of media and communication studies. I argue that these approaches have indirectly silenced a much longer disciplinary history outside "the West" that has not only produced empirica ... more

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Contemporary Cinema of Africa and the Diaspora

Anjali Prabhu

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2014), x, 261 pp.

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Barometre des Médias Africains: Benin 2014

Windhoek; Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 107 pp.

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Radios et religions en Afrique subsaharienne: Dynamisme, concurrence, action sociale
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Étienne Damome

Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (2014), 319 pp.

"Cet ouvrage analyse l’environnement des radios confessionnelles et leurs stratégies de communication dans un contexte médiatique, religieux et social marqué par le libéralisme et de profondes mutations. Il nous fait découvrir l’extraordinaire expansion des médias radiophoniques en Afrique ... more

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in Ethiopia

Wondwossen Belete, Seyoum Tadesse

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2014), 71 pp.

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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.

"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more

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Meanings of Audiences: Comparative Discourses

Richard Butsch, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), xi, 206 pp.

"With essays on audiences in ancient Greece, early modern Germany, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, Zimbabwe, contemporary Egypt, Bengali India, China, Taiwan, and immigrant diaspora in Belgium, each chapter examines the ways in which audiences are embedded in discourses of power, representation, and ... more

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An Atlas of the Sahara-Sahel: Geography, Economics and Security

Paris: OECD (2014), 254 pp.

"Historically, the Sahara plays an intermediary role between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa. Commercial and human exchanges are intense and based on social networks that now include trafficking. Understanding their structure, geographical and organizational mobility of criminal groups and migra ... more

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The Concept of Public Service Broadcasting in a Changing Africa: A Tanzanian Experience

Amani Millanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 7-25

"The central argument in this article is that the concept of public service broadcasting (PSB) in ‘a changing Africa’ has been changing, reflecting the changes in political, economic and sociocultural sceneries in Africa. Thus, from a Tanzanian experience, this article is an overview of the conc ... more

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Die orientalischen Christen: Eine unterdrückte und verfolgte Minderheit

Heinz Finger, Werner Wessel (eds.)

Rudolf Solzbacher; Nadim K. Ammann (collab.)

Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (2014), 361 pp.

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Perception Management: Deterring Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns

Charles Heller

Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2014), pp. 303-318

"How are images used in the aim of governing migration? This article probes this question through the example of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) information campaigns (ICs) in Cameroon, through which it seeks to ‘manage the perception’ of potential illegal(ized) migrants t ... more

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Media Analysis of Albino Killings in Tanzania: A Social Work and Human Rights Perspective

Jean Burke, Theresa J. Kaijage, Johannes John-Langba

Ethics and Social Welfare, volume 8, issue 2 (2014), pp. 117-134

"Murders of people with albinism are a recently emerging human rights issue in Africa, particularly Tanzania. Thus far, public debates about albino killings in Tanzania and other African countries have been dominated by media reports rather than academic writing. This paper presents the findings of ... more

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Images & animation: Le cinéma d'animation en Afrique Centrale. Introduction au cinéma d'animation en République Démocratique du Congo, au Rwanda et au Burundi

Guido Convents

Afrika Filmfestival (2014), 133 pp.

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Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: Ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme
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Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp.

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich ... more

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Women's Community Radio in Africa: The Case Study of Gindiku FM in Senegal

Fatoumata Sow

Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, Doctoral Thesis (2014), xvi, 421 pp.

"Drawing upon feminism and participatory communication, this research has used multiple methods to explore the rich and innovative experiences of the women’s radio stations in Senegal. The case of Gindiku FM, one of the four women’s radio stations in Senegal, is used to assess the community radi ... more

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Armed with Pen and Microphone: Media as Tools for Social Development

Caroline Haidacher

Wien: Frauensolidarität/Women's Solidarity (2014), 78 pp.

"This study shows how women and women’s organisations in Central America and southern Africa use media for social development. One of the milestones of the women’s movement was the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Section J of the Platform for Action, which was a result of th ... more

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The Re-Emergence of Diasporic Radio in Independent Zimbabwe

Everette Ndlovu

African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 54-72

"The article uses Short Wave Radio Africa and other diasporic radio stations domiciled outside Zimbabwe to examine how diasporic radio has re-emerged in independent Zimbabwe, where it manages to utilise affordable communication technologies to link with the population, providing the people with an a ... more

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Perceptions of Chinese presence in Africa as reflected in the African media: Case study of Uganda

Goretti Nassanga, Sabiti Makara

Beijing: Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2014), 14 pp.

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The Tension Between Ethics and Ethnicity: Examining Journalists’ Ethical Decision-Making at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

Herman Wasserman, Jacinta Mwende Maweu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 2 (2014), pp. 165-179

"This article analyses how ethnicity influences the ethical decisions of journalists at the Nation Media Group (NMG) in Kenya. Ethnic identity is regarded as one of the key factors that shape the political beliefs of Kenyans in general, and for journalists and media practitioners in particular ethni ... more

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Radios et religions en Afrique subsaharienne: Dynamisme, concurrence, action sociale
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