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Mapping with Mobiles: Lessons Learnt from the Use of Smartphones for Fast Humanitarian Surveys in Zimbabwe

Harare; Copenhagen: Humanitarian Information Facilitation Centre (HIFC); International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 10 pp.
"SMS services have become a very efficient tool to warn people of health threats such as epidemics or water pollution, but smartphones can also be utilised to stream information in the opposite direction when they are used as tools for snap surveys. In both emergency settings and well-planned nation ... more
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Community Participation at Local and Community Radio Stations: An Explorative Study in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific

Julia Fröhlich, Daniel Däschle, Andrés Geerts, Sofie Jannusch
Aachen: Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2012), 19 pp.
"This report presents the main findings of three regional surveys on participation at local and community radio stations in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific. The studies examined the involvement of the radio stations’ communities in programming, management, ownership and funding. Partic ... more
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Niger: Media and Telecom Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 104 pp.
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KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies

Sverker Finnström
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 127-135
"The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which it portrays. The most prominent feature of the Invisible Children lobby is the making and constant remaking of a mast ... more
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: A Worldwide Survey

Bill Sweeney (ed.)
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2012), 451 pp.
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Global Survey on Internet Privacy and Freedom of Expression

Andrew Puddephatt, Toby Mendel, Ben Wagner, Dixie Hawtin, Natalia Torres
Paris: UNESCO (2012), 142 pp.
"This publication seeks to identify the relationship between freedom of expression and Internet privacy, assessing where they support or compete with each other in different circumstances. The publication maps out the issues in the current regulatory landscape of Internet privacy from the viewpoint ... more
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Factually True, Legally Untrue: Political Media Ownership in Kenya

Othieno Nyanjom
Internews (2012), 83 pp.
"This report finds that while media ownership is sometimes obvious, media owners often use their spouse, parents or trusted friends to register their media outlets, making it difficult to obtain clear data on media ownership. For instance, the researcher notes that the connection of presidential can ... more
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Extending the Learning Community: Rural Radio, Social Learning and Farm Productivity in Ghana

Olumide Taiwo, Emmanuel Asmah
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2012), 20 pp.
"This paper examines the potential role of indigenous knowledge sharing through rural FM radio stations in Ghanaian agriculture. To identify social learning effects, we examine crop productivity trends and their association with participation in radio programs, and compare the strength of these asso ... more
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State-Sanctioned Incitement to Genocide: The Responsibility to Prevent

Irwin Cotler
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 430-455
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Mapping Digital Media: Digital Media, Conflict and Diasporas in the Horn of Africa

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 23 pp.
"The Horn of Africa is one of the least connected regions in the world. Nevertheless, digital media play an important social and political role in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia (including South-Central Somalia and the northern self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland). This paper shows how ... more
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The Media Map Project: The Democratic Republic of the Congo. Case Study on Donor Support to Independent Media, 1990-2010
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Marie-Soleil Frère
Washington, DC: Internews; World Bank Institute (2012), 98 pp.
"Today, the DRC tops the African charts in the number of registered media outlets, be they print media, radio or television. In 2008, 638 publications were registered country-wide; there were 341 radio stations and 82 television stations, although TV is still an essentially urban phenomenon, given t ... more
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Survey on the Publishing Sector in Selected Sub-Saharan Countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda

Bernadette Böcker
Johannesburg: Goethe-Institut; Frankfurt Book Fair (2012), 81 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Ghana 2011

Accra; Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2012), 58 pp.
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South Sudan: Media and Telecom Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 97 pp.
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Community Radio Regulation and its Challenges in Ghana

Akpojivi Ufuoma
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 193-207
"The emergence of community radio in Ghana’s media sphere has changed the political economy of communications in Ghana. The participatory platform of the medium has led to citizens’ empowerment and facilitated the political, economic and social development of this new democracy. Marginalized com ... more
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Mobilizing the Hordes: Radio Drama as Development Theatre in Sub-Saharan Africa

Victor N. Gomia
Bamenda (CM): Langaa (2012), xvi, 277 pp.
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50 Jahre afrikanische Un-Abhängigkeiten: Eine (selbst)-kritische Bilanz

AfricAvenir International
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2012), 260 pp.
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Developing countries in the e-learning era

Christian Depover, François Orivel
Paris: UNESCO; International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (2012), 97 pp.
"In addition to reducing geographical isolation,distance education, thanks to its more favourable cost structure, allows the monitoring of social and economic remoteness.It may thus have much to offer for developing countries. Digital technologies not only bring remote populations closer, they also ... more
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Pensées théologiques et communicationnelles pour l'Afrique du 21ème siècle: Comment l'Afrique peut-elle défendre son identité dans le jeu universel?

Gaston Ogui, Francis Barbey
Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 117 pp.
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Kongo, Krieg und unsere Handys

Friedel Hütz-Adams
Aachen: Missio (2012), 8 pp.
"missio setzt sich im Rahmen der Aktion Schutzengel „Für Familien in Not. Weltweit“ mit einer Unterschriftenaktion für saubere Handys dafür ein, dass führende Handyhersteller sicherstellen, dass ihre Handys kein Coltan aus Konfliktregionen der Demokratischen Republik Kongo verwenden, mit dem ... more