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Résurgence du Mouvement du 23 mars : Quel avenir pour la Région des Grands Lacs africains ?

Goma: Éditions de Pole Institute (2023), 331 pp.
"Ce numéro porte un regard critique sur la crise que traverse actuellement la Province du Nord Kivu, et la RDC en général, à cause de la nouvelle guerre imposée au pays par le mouvement rebelle M23. Connaissant une période sécuritaire sombre qui y a motivé l’instauration d’un État de si ... more
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Fintech for Who? Demand for Digital Financial Services and FinTech in Tanzania

United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (2023), xi, 62 pp.
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research

Stefania Vicari, Daniel Kirby
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
"Social media platforms are increasingly looked at as means to investigate social phenomena like collective events, issues or causes. Digital methods – techniques exclusively focused on online data and shaped by the environment hosting these data – have become part and parcel of these investigat ... more
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Is ChatGPT a Friend or Foe in the War on Misinformation? A South African Perspective

Burgert Senekal, Susan Brokensha
Communicare: Journal for Communication Studies in Africa, volume 42, issue 2 (2023), pp. 3-16
"The release of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 met with fears and optimism. One particularly important avenue of research that is emerging revolves around ChatGPT's ability to provide accurate and unbiased information on a variety of topics. Given the interest that Google and Microsoft have shown in sim ... more
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Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)
London, New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 271 pp.
"This volume responds to the great need to rethink journalism from various perspectives including journalism training, research, the contents of the news media, language, media ethics, the safety of journalists and gender inequities in the news media." (Publisher description)
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Kenya Media Landscape Report

Communications Authority of Kenya (2023), 18 pp.
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Social Media Use and Consumption in Kenya: Beyond Likes and Share - Quantifying the Quirks and Trends of a Nation Online

Nairobi: SIMElab; United States International University-Africa (USIU Africa) (2023), 63 pp.
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The Impact of a Large-Scale Social and Behavior Change Communication Intervention in the Lake Zone Region of Tanzania on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Related to Stunting Prevention

Kirk Dearden, Generose Mulokozi, Mary Linehan et al.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, volume 20, issue 2:1214 (2023), 13 pp.
"Background: Large-scale social and behavioral change communication (SBCC) approaches can be beneficial to achieve improvements in knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP). Addressing Stunting in Tanzania Early (ASTUTE) included a significant SBCC component and targeted precursors to stunting inclu ... more
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Theatre for development in Africa: Historical and institutional perspectives
Deep Insights

Christopher Balme, Abdul Karim Hakib (eds.)
Hildesheim; München: Olms; University Library of LMU München (2023), xiii, 256 pp.
"Theatre for Development is one of the most dynamic and controversial theatre movements on the global South. Emerging in Southern Africa in the 1970s to address social and economic problems using theatrical techniques, today it is taught in theatre departments across sub-Saharan Africa and employed ... more
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Evading Accountability Through Internet Shutdowns: Trends in Africa and the Middle East

Global Partners Digital (2023), 38 pp.
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Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging Trends and Perspectives

Stanley Tsarwe, Sarah Chiumbu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxiii, 250 pp.
"This book explores the convergence of urban radio with digital media technologies in Africa, focusing on how youth are riding on the rapid (though uneven) internet rollout on the continent to participate and drive the production and consumption of urban radio. With thirteen original chapters, the b ... more
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Deciphering Digital Hate: Assessing the Evidence between Online Speech and Offline Violence in Africa

Nicole Stremlau, Caitlyn McGeer, Marlene Straub
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 13, issue 2 (2023), 25 pp.
"From Ethiopia to Sudan, there has been significant concern about the role of hate speech and incitement on social media to promote offline violence and, at its most extreme, genocide. These questions have become more urgent with the growth of large language models and Artificial Intelli-gence that ... more
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Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA): Mali

Sophia Anong, Bouchaib Bounabat, Patrick Malone
USAID, Digital Frontiers Project (2023), 99 pp.
"The Mali Digital Ecosystem Country Assessment (DECA) report presents the findings and recommendations of the Mali DECA. It outlines the key aspects of Mali’s digital ecosystem and provides 11 recommendations for creating a more inclusive, safe, and enabling environment. Guided by 3 USAID/Mali pri ... more