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Datafest Africa22 Report

Datafest Africa;Pollicy (2022), 18 pp.

"DataFest Africa is an annual event that seeks to celebrate data use in the region by bringing together a variety of stakeholders of diverse backgrounds such as government, civil society, academics, students and private industry experts under one roof and theme. Since 2019, Pollicy, with support fro ... more

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Pounding Pavements Knocking on Doors: Campaign for Access to Information in Africa ... Another Gift to the World

Edetaen Ojo (ed.)

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 77 pp.

"This publication is a collection of essays and articles by Access to Information advocates in Africa unpacking some of the successes, hopes & struggles, and ongoing challenges to the full realization of the right to information in Africa." (Publisher description)

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Mapping of Legal Framework and Responses by Actors to Address Harmful Content Online in Kenya

Caleb Gichuhi, Kate Mytty, Amos Atuya

Build Up (2022), 47 pp.

"This report details the legal framework / rule of law tools in place, and responses by the government, social media companies, and civil society to address illegal harmful content and potentially harmful content online in Kenya. This research draws from 13 interviews with people active in Kenya's g ... more

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Journalism and Mental Health: Ugandan Journalists’ Perspectives

Angella Napakol, Samuel Kazibwe, Ann Mugunga, Elizabeth Kitego, Osborn Ahimbisibwe, Joseph Kiva

In: COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication

Carol Azungi Dralega; Angella Napakol (eds.)

Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2022), pp. 147-162

"In the midst of a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists play an important role of sharing information of consequence with the public. As first responders to precarious events, they work in close proximity to the threat they are reporting on yet at the same time struggle with ... more

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State of Mental Health in Kenyan Media

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2022), vi, 28 pp.

"From the findings of the survey, it emerges that mental issues are widespread among journalists. It is notable and concerning that among the respondents, there is generally a significant percentage of them who either lack knowledge on issues of mental health, or for those that have knowledge and ca ... more

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Visual Cultures of Africa

Mary Clare Kidenda, Lize Kriel, Ernst Wagner (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp.

"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre ... more

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Combating Fake News, Disinformation, and Misinformation: Experimental Evidence for Media Literacy Education

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey

Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2037229 (2022), 17 pp.

"This study investigated the effect of media and information literacy (MIL) on the ability to identify fake news, disinformation and misinformation, and sharing intentions. The experimental approach was selected to study both the control group and experimental group made up of a total of 187 respond ... more

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Online Media and Global Communication Research in Nigeria

Eserinune Mc Carty Mojaye, Oludare Ebenezer Ogunyombo

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 626-647

"The growth of global online media necessitates a better knowledge of how these media affect the world. Communication researchers have examined how rhetoric and globalization interact dynamically; how information spreads through cross-cultural interactions, and how a growing global media landscape a ... more

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‘Deadlier Than Boko Haram’: Representations of the Nigerian Herder–farmer Conflict in the Local and Foreign Press

Innocent Chiluwa, Isioma M Chiluwa

Media, War & Conflict, volume 15, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-24

"This corpus-based discourse study briefly reviews the activities of Boko Haram and the conflict between the nomadic herdsmen and sedentary agrarian farmers of north-central and southern Nigeria. But the study focuses on the representations of the main actors in the conflict and the conflict itself ... more

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Telling the Story: Remembering Elisabeth Blanche Olofio

Jules Swinkels

Free Press Unlimited;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Reporters Without Borders (2022), 33 pp.

"Elisabeth Blanche Olofio’s reporting exposed local corruption and human rights abuses in the Central African Republic, providing her community with crucial information on the ongoing rebel advance at the time. On 5 January 2013, she was severely beaten, tortured and raped by Séléka rebels in he ... more

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Endline Report on Ugandan Media Coverage of Road Safety

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), v, 35 pp.

"This study looks at Ugandan news media coverage of road safety, focusing on the country's three main daily newspapers, three television stations, and two online platforms. The study explores the attention and the nature of coverage these media platforms paid road safety (including road traffic cras ... more

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Selected Road Safety Stories from Uganda

Kampala: African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), vi, 50 pp.

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Social Listening to Strengthen Vaccine Programs: Leveraging a National Health Hotline in Malawi

Village Reach (2022), 5 pp.

"VillageReach has started to work with governments in Africa to improve access to primary health care, including immunization programs. One method is to systematically monitor and respond to vaccine questions and misinformation in public discourse through a process called social listening. The appro ... more

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The Mediatization of Politics in Cameroon: A Political Actor-Centric Approach

Christian Nounkeu Tatchou

African Journalism Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (2022), pp. 107-126

"This article examines the connection between political parties’ perceptions of the importance of news media as source of political information, and the extent to which they adapt their communications to the standards, routines, formats and logic of the news media in Cameroon. This, with the objec ... more

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Infodemic Management Using Digital Information and Knowledge Cocreation to Address COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy: Case Study from Ghana

Anna-Leena Lohiniva, Anastasiya Nurzhynska, Al-hassan Hudi, Bridget Anim, Aboagye, Da Costa

JMIR Infodemiology, volume 2, issue 2: e37134 (2022), 10 pp.

"This paper describes an infodemic management system workflow based on digital data collection, qualitative methodology, and human-centered systems to support the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Ghana with examples of system implementation. Methods: The infodemic management system was developed by the H ... more

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Cyber Capacity Building and Strategic Engagement with Africa: A New Mission for Germany and Europe

Kaan Sahin

Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation (2022), 23 pp.

"The present paper sheds light on the current trends of cyber capacity building and its implications in Africa and beyond as well as on its actor landscape. It argues that Germany and Europe should strategically engage more with African countries in terms of cyber capacity building to avoid that the ... more

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In Search of Platform Cooperatives in South Africa

Fazila Farouk

Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 52 pp.

"This study argues for the diversification of South Africa's digital economy, as it builds a case for the support of platform co-operatives, which are worker-owned and managed social enterprises that contribute to the diversification, decentralisation and democratisation of the digital economy by fo ... more

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Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Action: The Case of Refugees in Uganda

Chris Dolan, David N. Tshimba, Gilbert Nuwagira

London: ODI;Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG);Medianálisis (2022), 40 pp.

"The potential benefits of increased digitalisation to refugees, living in situations where access to information and spaces for communication exchange are of the essence, are yet to be realised. Uganda’s forced migrants, both those in refugee settlements and those self-settled in urban areas, hav ... more

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The Global State of Democracy: Forging Social Contracts in a Time of Discontent

Stockholm: International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) (2022), viii, 52 pp.

"The fourth edition of the Global State of Democracy Report comes at a time when democracy is under both literal and figurative assault around the world. The steady drumbeat of such warnings—included in the previous edition of this report, which was produced at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic� ... more

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Age-Inclusive ICT Innovation for Service Delivery in South Africa: A Developing Country Perspective

Vera Roos, Jaco Hoffman (eds.)

Cham: Springer (2022), xxi, 257 pp.

"Worldwide, it is anticipated that care needs of older populations will outstrip available resources. Sub-Saharan Africa lacks relevant long-term care systems for older persons, and technology could play a crucial role in supporting families, communities and government in vital care management. This ... more