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"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities, ... more

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The Internet in the Print Newsroom: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures in Zimbabwe

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara

In: Making Online News, Vol. 2: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism

David Domingo; Chris Paterson (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 57-69

"This chapter focuses on the work practices of newspaper journalists in Zimbabwe and explores the role that the Internet plays in their information gathering and relationship with sources." (Page 57)

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Geschichte Afrikas

Walter Schicho

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 181 pp.

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Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya

Mark Fackler, Levi Obonyo, Mitchell Terpstra, Emmanuel Okaalet

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 626-654

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Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia

Zenebe Beyene

In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics

Robert S. Fortner; Mark Fackler (eds.)

Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 700-734

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Community Radio im Reality Check

Johannes Preuß

Medienheft, issue 20. April (2011), 4 pp.

"Kritischer Journalismus kann in Gemeinschaftsmedien die zivile Gesellschaft stärken. Voraussetzung dafür wären jedoch ausreichende finanzielle Ressourcen und ein unbestechliches journalistisches Rollenverständnis. Ein Erfahrungsbericht aus der lokalen Radiostation Arise FM in Ghana." (Einleitun ... more

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The Sustainability of Community Broadcasting in Namibia: An Assessment and Plan of Action

David Lush, Gabriel Urgoiti

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 83 pp.

"The study found that, in their struggle to generate the income for day-to-day running costs, stations become detached from their communities, and end up competing - usually unsuccessfully - with better-resourced commercial broadcasters. The solution, the study suggests, is to invest in strengthenin ... more

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Community Radio, Gender & ICTs in West Africa: How Women Are Engaging with Community Radio Through Mobile Phone Technologies

Frances Fortune, Cindy Chungong, Andrew Kessinger

Washington, DC; Brussels: Search for Common Ground (2011), 38 pp.

"Women on the air are usually viewed through a traditional model - in the context of their relationship to their husbands or children – and not as individual beings with a broad range of interests and needs. As a result, radio does not currently meet the needs of women, and women do not participat ... more

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Climate Airwaves: Community Radio, Action Research, and Advocacy for Climate Justice in Ghana

Blane Harvey

International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 2035-2058

"Community radio is well recognized as a powerful vehicle for advocacy and social change in Africa, but its use in the field of climate change has remained very limited, and then largely for top-down transmission of information to communities. This article discusses lessons learned to date from the ... more

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Driving Change Through Rural Radio Debate in Uganda

Kampala: Panos Eastern Africa (2011), 100 pp.

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Impact of the Department of Communications’ Community Radio Support Programme: Report and Recommendations

Mandla Msimang, Libby Lloyd, Nadia Bulbulia, Leona Mentz, Babu Charles Katanga, Thabisa Faye

Pygma Consulting (2011), 80 pp.

"The Department of Communications (“DoC”) Community Radio Support Programme (“CRSP”) was initiated in 1998 and includes a range of categories of support: Infrastructure rollout to provide technical equipment to stations; Signal distribution and upgrade; Programme production support on specif ... more

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Community Radio: The Beat That Develops the Soul of the People? A Case Study of XK FM as a SABC Owned Community Radio Station and its Role as a Facilitator of Community Based Development

Thomas Bongani Hart

University of KwaZulu-Natal, Master Thesis (2011), 228 pp.

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Community Radio: The Future Speaks “glocal”. An African Experience: The Guinea-Bissau & Mozambique Cases

Patricia Mota Paula

Signo y Pensamiento, volume 31, issue julio-diciembre (2011), pp. 282-297

"This article focuses on a comparative analysis of community radio realities in two Lusophone African countries: Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, whose local ield research refers to 2003, 2004, 2007 and 2009, respectively. It focuses on the tense relationship between political power and community radio ... more

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Pamoja FM – The voice of Kibera. How young Kenyan adults in Kibera perceive the local urban community radio and how it influences the community

Sebastian Nyström, Anton Rosenblad

Linnaeus University (2011), 59 pp.

"In Kibera, the biggest slum area in Nairobi and in whole East Africa, the urban slum community radio station Pamoja FM only works for the citizens living within Kibera. We aimed to find out how the youth in Kibera perceive the efficacy of the radio station as a viable source of news and information ... more

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Die Lust auf Liebesromane: Ein kleiner Verlag in Lagos holt nigerianische Literatur zurück nach Hause

Katrin Gänsler

welt-sichten, issue 11 (2011), pp. 34-35

"Nigeria hat eine lange Lese- und Literaturtradition und kann sich mit mehreren renommierten Schriftstellern schmücken. Trotzdem werden im Land selbst kaum Bücher von einheimischen Autoren herausgegeben. Der Verlag Cassava Republic will das ändern. Das ist nicht leicht, aber die Verleger lassen s ... more

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Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
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Brussels: FAO Dimitra (2011), 54 pp.

"This publication is particularly relevant for radio stations intending to establish listeners' clubs. It presents the experience of community listeners' clubs established in the mid-2000s in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Niger by the FAO and its partners, and the results that these initiativ ... more

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Journalists or Activists? Self-Identity in the Ethiopian Diaspora Online Community

Terje S. Skjerdal

Journalism, volume 12, issue 6 (2011), pp. 727-744

"This study investigates the role of the diaspora online media as stakeholders in the transnational Ethiopian media landscape. Through content analysis of selected websites and interviews with editors, the research discusses how the sites relate to recognized journalistic ideals and how the editors ... more

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Africa’s Evolving Infosystems: A Pathway to Security and Stability

Steven Livingston

Washington, DC: National Defense University Press (2011), iii, 57 pp.

"Linked by mobile telephony and supported by geographical information systems, civil society networks now have unprecedented opportunities to develop security-monitoring programs, provide information needed for effective health care, create banking services, and provide farmers with market informati ... more

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Community Listeners' Clubs: Stepping Stones for Action in Rural Areas
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