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Press Freedom in Ethiopia

Vienna; Paris: International Press Institute (IPI);World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) (2013), 18 pp.

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"Cry Your Own Cry": On Popular Visual Media of Life Experiences in Ghanaian Mottonyms

Joseph Oduro-Frimpong

EASA Media Anthropology Network (2013), 23 pp.

"Mottonyms are both inscriptions, based on people’s experiences, on Ghanaian commercial vehicles and ‘names’ by which drivers of such vehicles are called. Prior research on mottonyms implicitly affirms how these inscriptions are embedded in human interpersonal relationships and on careful refl ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

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A (private) Public Space: Examining the Use and Impact of Digital and Social Media Among Adolescents in Kenya

Susan Gigli, Vivien Marles

UNICEF;Intermedia;Voices of Youth Citizens (2013), 88 pp.

"The study focused on exploring how 152 children, 12 to 17 years old, in Kenya, use social media and other digital technologies, and what impact these technologies have on this group, particularly from the perspective of child rights. The study involved holding digital youth clinics in four location ... more

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Building Alliances for Gender and Media

Media Development, volume 60, issue 4 (2013), pp. 1-36

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Using Visual Storytelling for Women's Empowerment

Tamara Plush

Media Development, volume 60, issue 3 (2013), pp. 25-29

"Communicators who work with photography and video in the development context know the power visuals can have in bearing witness to the reality people living in poverty face. When contextualized, visuals can transcend distance and create a global dialog around topics in need of deeper understanding ... more

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Baseline Community and Decision Maker Media Perception Survey

Ipsos Synovate;Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 104 pp.

"This study has looked at the opinions of ordinary citizens (n=2000) as well as a small sample of decision makers at community level (n=200). Chapters 1 and 2 provide a background sketch and methodology for the survey, followed by a detailed overview of the findings for the general public and decisi ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2013), 240 pp.

"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more

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Practical Guide for Digital Switchover (DSO) in Cameroon

Lishan Adam, Mike Jensen, Steve Song, Russell Southwood

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Balancing Act (2013), 77 pp.

"The digital switchover (DSO) is the commonly accepted name given to the process of changing the underlying radio broadcast technology from the outdated analogue system to a system based on equipment capable of transmitting and receiving digital signals. This guide was produced to help with the proc ... more

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Financial Proficiency for Media Executives 1. AMI/AfDB Regional Financial Proficiency Workshop for Media Executives Simba Lodge, Naivasha, Kenya 7th – 8th June

African Media Initiative (AMI);African Development Bank (2013), 36 pp.

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Faces of Peace Radio: Promoting Peace Through Radio

Kussia Bekele, Simone Notz

GIZ Ethiopia, Civil Peace Service Program (2013), 54 pp.

"The Peace Radio project was conceived in 2009 by the Resource Center for Civil Society Groups Association (RCCSGA) and Council of Nationalities (CoN) of SNNPRS (Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Regional State). The Civil Peace Service-Program (CPS) of GIZ is supporting the project financi ... more

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African Media Barometer: South Africa 2013

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 74 pp.

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Access to Information in Africa: Examining Progress Since the APAI Declaration

Windhoek: African Platform on Access to Information (APAI);Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 91 pp.

"Out of the twelve countries surveyed, only four have specific access to information laws. These countries are: Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Zimbabwe. However, a significant indication of the shifting tide on the continent is that six of the countries surveyed have some form of specific access to ... more

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Investigative Journalism in Grassroots Independent Print Media in South Africa: A Baseline Study of the Eastern Cape, Mpumalanga and Limpopo

Eastern Cape Communication Forum (ECCF);Association of Independent Publishers (AIP);Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2013), 20 pp.

"In summary, the findings show that more than half of the analysed newspapers do in fact seek to expose potential wrong doings of government and business and as such are important actors in promoting local accountability. Yet, the findings also show that a lot of the reporting is not as extensive, a ... more

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Media Mapping Briefing Note

African Union (2013), 60 pp.

"The objective of this IST Briefing Note issue is to provide an up to date list of Somali media outlets. The aim of this paper is to help relevant actors understand the landscape of Somali media and use this information in order to guide their engagement and approach with Somali media outlets. Based ... more

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Improving Communication Between Humanitarian Aid Agencies and Crisis-Affected People: Lessons from the Infoasaid Project

Carole Chapelier, Anita Shah

London: Overseas Development Institute (ODI), Humanitarian Practice Network (HPN) (2013), 26 pp.

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Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée d'Afrique francophone

Christophe Cassiau-Haurie (red.)

Jason Kibiswa (illustr.)

L'Harmattan (2013), 375 pp.

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Malawi Reporting: Covering the Tripartite Elections

Ivor Gaber

London: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 48 pp.

"This Course Handbook has been produced to accompany the USAID/NDI/IWPR Course in Election Reporting, which is being run for Malawian journalists in the run-up to the 2014 Elections. The Handbook, which follows the day-by-day course programme, contains copies of the slides used during the course plu ... more

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New Media Entrepreneurs and Changing Styles of Public Communication in Africa: Introduction

Tilo Grätz

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 25, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-13

"Central to the work represented in this issue is what we have called the emergence of new media entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. These actors generate a multitude of new (and often not easily definable) genres of information as well as entertainment and distraction, but also persuasion and heal ... ing (Böhme 2013). They are often categorized as cultural brokers (cf. Thalen 2011), mediating between dispersed audiences and spaces of communication, and taking advantage of their privileged access to new media technologies and/or advanced positions in the media field. Thus, we propose to refer back to quite classical notions of intermediaries, stemming especially from the realm of political and economic anthropology, such as brokers or middlemen (cf. Boissevain 1974, 148; Lewis and Mosse 2006), interpreting these figures mainly as entrepreneurs who control second order resources such as information, social relations, or channels of communication. In our articles we exemplify the relevance of such a conceptualization for contemporary African media fields, also beyond more functionalist aspects as we discuss their often ambiguous positions as well, caught as they are between contradicting loyalties to clients and colleagues or authorities, and also between professional standards and aspirations on the one hand and the need for income on the other. This category of media entrepreneurs, benefitting fromthese newopportunities and opening new social spaces and realms of creativity, may include journalists, radio producers (cf. Gunner et al. 2011), media technicians, or artists working within private as well as public structures, as well as those who are establishing institutions that offer media-related training, counselling, and marketing. Other media entrepreneurs are, for example, individuals who, thanks to their mass-mediated appearances and particular preaching style, draw large groups of supporters in their role as religious or political actors (Meyer 2003, cf. also the contribution by Sounaye). Examples of such media entrepreneurship also include the rising number of independent media production outlets, studios, or PR agencies doing public or private contract work, and who often profit from the new opportunities raised by national and transnational ventures in commerce and finance which require advertising and publicity. As already indicated, among those who are benefitting most from these new opportunities are many young people, often graduates, who have not always received formal training to prepare them for a job in media production, but who make their way through the various steps of internship, freelance, and contractualwork, often combining severalmedia activities in the press, in radio andTV, or asPRofficers. Some have even been successful at establishing themselves as leading media figures or local celebrities in this field." (Page 49) more

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Somalia: Media Law in the Absence of a State

Nicole Stremlau

International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 8, issue 2-3 (2013), pp. 159-174

"Somalia is often described as ‘lawless’ or ‘the world’s most failed state’, a characterization that overlooks the way law and governance actually works in the absence of a capable central government. This article will explore the role of xeer law, or customary law, in regulating media, in ... more