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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015
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
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Book donation programmes for Africa: Time for a reappraisal? Part II: Le don de livre, mais à quel prix, et en échange de quoi? Un regard sur le don de livre en Afrique francophone
African Research & Documentation, issue 127 (2015), 76 pp.
"Dans cet article, je réfléchis à la relation entre don et marché éditorial en Afrique francophone ainsi qu’à son évolution. Comme je l’observe, l’intensification du don et la diffusion de l’idée qu’il n’y a pas de livres en Afrique coïncide avec l’essor de ce que l’on appel
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The African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms: A Positive Agenda for Human Rights Online
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
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Media Reporting of War Crimes Trials and Civil Society Responses in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone
University of Bedfordshire, Doctoral Thesis (2015), x, 301 pp.
"This study, which seeks to contribute to the shared-body of knowledge on media and war crimes jurisprudence, gauges the impact of the media’s coverage of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF) and Charles Taylor trials conducted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on the functionality of civil s
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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy
Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587
"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media
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Journalisme radio: Conseils pour la pratique en Afrique subsaharienne
Key Guides
Nogent-sur-Marne: Groupe de recherche et d’échanges technologiques (GRET) (2015), 248 pp.
"Préparer une émission de radio, rechercher l’info pertinente, savoir la traiter et la mettre en forme dans le respect des règles de la profession, afin d’attirer l’attention de son auditoire et de l’informer au plus près de sa réalité : tout un art qui s’apprend certes dans les éco
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TMF 2015-2018 Strategy: Strengthening Media for Accountability
Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2015), 51 pp.
"By October 2015, the TMF project will have transitioned from being a donor initiative to a new legal entity. Since 2008, the TMF project has been using grants as a way to increase quality content in as well as to strengthen the Tanzanian media landscape. This new strategic plan, which outlines the
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Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice
Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation (2015), 192 pp.
"Christiaan scrutinizes existing concepts of cultural and creative industries, as applied in public policies in African countries and largely inluenced by programmes of intergovernmental development agencies. He then searches for empirical evidence of their true value for human development. He looks
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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives
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.
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Broadcasting Governance and Development in ‘Museveni's Uganda’
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 5-24
"How has broadcasting governance affected broadcast media development in Uganda during the Museveni years? The main approach was content analysis of relevant legislation and policies, and key informant interviews with major stakeholders. The key finding is that in the period under examination, Ugand
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Histoires de courage: Des journalistes centrafricains témoignent
International Media Support (IMS); Panos Europe (2015), 51 pp.
"Cette publication présente l’histoire de 18 journalistes centrafricains, tous victimes de diverses menaces, bastonnades et intimidations, pendant qu’ils effectuaient leur travail de reportage sur le conflit qui a déchiré leur pays entre 2012 et 2014 [...] Les témoignages dans cette publicat
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Trauma and Public Memory
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
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Faith-Based Radio: Beyond Spirituality, Encompassing Development
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 77-94
"This article aims to assess the activities of Kingfisher FM, a faith-based community radio station, and its contribution to development in Port Elizabeth and its environs. A qualitative data collection method, in the form of group interviews, was used to collect data. The analysis of data indicates
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Reappraising Indigenous African Communication Systems in the Twenty-First Century: New Uses for Ancient Media
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 203-216
"In Africa, rural people rarely have access to mainstream communication systems and their exposure to them is highly limited by several issues. However, they tend to attach much significance to their indigenous communication systems, indicating that the systems are still relevant today and are, ther
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Testing the Influence of Radio Programs on Climate Change Knowledge: A Pilot Experience from the Congo Basin
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
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Os cinemas de Cabo Verde: A visão de um estrangeiro
"Talvez este seja o momento de voltarmos os nossos olhos para a cinematografia em Cabo Verde, país que conta com apenas duas salas de cinema, pois, mesmo olhando de longe, eu venho observando desde o Brasil, há algumas tantas ações que demonstram um esforço para implantação e consolidação d
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The Emergence and Growth of Vernacular Radio in Kenya: A Case Study of Radio Having a Positive Economic Impact
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2015), 32 pp.
"Edwin Okoth, a business journalist at the Daily Nation in Kenya, has examined whether the recent boom in vernacular radio stations in his country has improved the livelihoods of ordinary citizens. In his research paper Edwin uses a case study of how one vernacular radio station called Ramogi FM, wh
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Contributing to Change: Supporting Zimbabwe's Media
International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 50 pp.
"It is my pleasure to introduce this report on the contribution of International Media Support and our partners to important changes in the Zimbabwean media sector over the past decade. Impact—or ‘contribution towards change’ as we term it in this report— is often an elusive, hard-to-illustr
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