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Chad's Transition: Easing Tensions Online

N'Djamena; Brussels: International Crisis Group (2022), 22 pp.
"Following years of government shutdowns, social media has become both freer and more influential in Chadian politics – particularly since the country entered a political transition with the death of President Idriss Déby in April 2021. While it has democratised political participation, social me ... more
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Meeting the Challenges of Information Disorder in the Global South
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)
Rondebosch: University of Cape Town, Centre for Film and Media Studies; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2022), 256 pp.
"Despite information disorder being a widespread problem in countries in the Global South, the study of this phenomenon remains dominated by examples, case studies, and models from the Global North. Knowledge about the various manifestations of information disorder, the range of responses, and the s ... more
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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of Digital Safety in Nigeria: A Study of Online Journalists in Kano State

Abdulhameed Olaitan Ridwanullah, Bilkisu Musbahu Abbas, Lauratu Umar Abdulsalam
SSRN (2022), 19 pp.
"This study examined the Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of digital safety among journalists in Kano State. It aimed at examining the awareness of digital safety and threats and also the mechanisms used by Kano state online journalists to respond to such threats. The study adopted the Protect ... more
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The German Image of Africa: Colonial Continuities in Media Reporting

Tina Adomako
In: Continuity of Injustice: The Colonial Legacy of Development and Missionization
Bonn: Missionszentrale der Franziskaner (2022), pp. 37-44
"Misery and poverty do exist, and the media should not be ignoring that. However, the status of the African continent cannot be judged without addressing the 500 years of slave trade. Our prosperity has been built by the unpaid labour of Black people and with the resources stolen from their countrie ... more
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Empowering Youth in Africa Through Media and Communication: 2018 - 2022

Dakar: UNESCO Office Dakar and Regional Bureau for Education in Africa (2022), 15 pp.
"The project "Empowering young people in Africa through media and communication" aims to build media professionals' capacities, both men and women, in the treatment of information on various aspects of migration (irregular, legal, intra-regional, female, etc.), in order to guarantee public access to ... more
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State of the Newsroom in Tanzania: A Survey Report

Abdallah Katunzi, Brian Ssenabulya et al.
African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) (2022), iv, 27 pp.
"This report offers an upstream view of the newsroom in the country. It looks at the newsroom environment and operations. Specifically, it looks at the newsroom staffing, revenue sources, specialisations, in-house training, and quality assurance, as well as the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on new ... more
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Using Radio Drama to Tackle Disability Discrimination in Nigeria

Akunna Penny, Manju Gautam, Alasdair Stuart
London: BBC Media Action (2022), 15 pp.
"As part of the Inclusive Futures programme, BBC Media Action produced a radio drama, Story Story, and accompanying social media content, to tackle stigma and discrimination around disability in Nigeria. This content was broadcast from November 2020 to November 2021 through local radio partners in s ... more
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Engendering Democracy in Africa: Women, Politics and Development

Niamh Gaynor
London, New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 190 pp.
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International Data Youth and Media 2022

Heike vom Orde, Alexandra Durner
München: Internationales Zentralinstitut für das Jugend- und Bildungsfernsehen (IZI) (2022), 109 pp.
"Presents media consumption data from European countries and the US, but includes also statistics on television, print media, mobile phone and social media usage of children and adolescents from Africa and Latin America." (commbox)
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Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp.
"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap ... more
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Social Media and Inclusion in Humanitarian Response

Oliver Lough
London: ODI; Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) (2022), 55 pp.
"This study forms part of the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG)’s wider research on humanitarian ‘digital divides’. Drawing on existing literature, interviews with humanitarian practitioners and research with people affected by crisis in Venezuela and Uganda, it explores how the presence of soci ... more
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Social Media Literacy: Fake News Consumption and Perception of COVID-19 in Nigeria

Aonover Eric Msughter, Bashiru Usman
Cogent Arts & Humanities, volume 9, issue 2138011 (2022), 14 pp.
"The emergence of social media in the late 90s resulted in information dissemination and consumption transformation. Social networking sites have increasingly been popular and appealing to youths, who often spend much time navigating across the platforms, exploiting the communication affordances. Wh ... more
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The Search for Sustainable Local Media: Tools and Models

Franz Krüger
BBC Media Action; PRIMED (2022), 3 pp.
"A summary of the forthcoming policy paper Greening Africa's news deserts: The search for sustainable local media in sub-Saharan Africa, soon to be published. The policy paper has been written with support from the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Fojo Media Institute. It focuses on local and communit ... more
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Case Study: EthioCheck Lab. Developing Fact-Checking Strategies with Human Centered Design — Insights of an Approach in Ethiopia

Katrin Proschek, Julius Endert
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2022), 42 pp.
"DW Akademie initiated a human-centered design (HCD) process as a starting point for a media development project in Ethiopia. The aim was to develop a better understanding and assess the current situation regarding misinformation and disinformation. The process with journalists and media experts fro ... more
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Borderland: Decolonizing the Words of War

Chrisanthi Giotis
Oxford University Press (2022), x, 278 pp.
"In an era marked by an unprecedented refugee crisis and ongoing, seemingly unending, borderland conflicts, foreign correspondents could play a pivotal role in helping create a global public sphere that incorporates the perspectives of those who are most effected by ongoing resource-fueled wars—an ... more
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Ûiiti: A treatment for ecological experience in mobile network culture

Greenman Muleh Mbillo Dani Ploeger
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 177-180
"Ûiiti (‘the treatment’) is an Android phone app created by artist duo Greenman Muleh Mbillo, in Kenya, and Dani Ploeger, in the Netherlands. The work is a high-tech iteration of the 'nzevu', a ritual instrument of the Kenyan Akamba tribe. It transforms a smartphone from a networking technology ... more
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Can African Scholars Speak? Situating African Voices in International Communication Scholarship

Gregory Gondwe
Media, Culture & Society, volume 44, issue 4 (2022), pp. 848-859
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Modes of Perception and Issues of Trust in the Media

Anja Wollenberg, Katharina Nötzold (eds.)
Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 12, issue 2 (2022), various pag.
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Disinformation in the Global South
Deep Insights

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales (eds.)
Guy Berger (foreword)
Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell (2022), xxv, 237 pp.
"In many parts of the Global South, coordinated political disinformation campaigns, rumor, and propaganda have long been a part of the social fabric, even before disinformation has become an area of scholarship in the Global North. The way disinformation manifests in this region, and responses to it ... more
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Pivots, Perseverances & Pleasures

Favour Borokini, Bonnita Nyamwire, Neema Iyer, Meital Kupfer
Pollicy (2022), iii, 26 pp.
"This is the final report in Pollicy's three-part series on African Women in AI. Launched in 2021, this project frames analysis of the state of artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa through a gender lens by exploring the impact of AI on women. This project emerged out of the need to fill the visibl ... more