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ICT accessibility overview: Assessment for the Africa region

Monica Duhem
Geneva: ITU (2022), vi, 50 pp.
"The aim of this report is to support ITU members and stakeholders from the Africa region in their efforts to achieve inclusive digital communities by assessing ICT accessibility as a key driver in achieving digital inclusion within the digital transformation process. The report provides an overview ... 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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Digital Rights Are Human Rights: An Introduction to the State of Affairs and Challenges in Africa

Hendrik Bussiek
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 7 pp.
"In sub-Saharan Africa, 495 million people (46 percent of the population) subscribed to mobile phones in 2020, however, the cost of accessing the internet is very high and many African Governments are renowned for restricting access to the internet to limit critics and their opposition through inter ... more
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Political and Media Analysis on the Tigray Conflict in Ethiopia

Moses Tofa, Alagaw Ababu Kifle, Hubert Kinkoh
Brussels: European Institute of Peace (2022), 37 pp.
"This study reviews patterns of domestic and international media reporting and the role of disinformation, misinformation, and media bias in the Tigray conflict, which has been raging since November 2020. Since its outbreak, the conflict has evolved through four broad phases. Throughout these phases ... more
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World Cinema in the Age of Netflix

Studies in World Cinema, volume 2, issue 1-2 (2022), pp. 1-184
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Joseph Kofi Teye (ed.)
Cham: Springer (2022), vi, 265 pp.
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Election Observation Mission São Tomé e Príncipe 2022: Final Report. Legislative, Local and Regional Elections

European Union (2022), 61 pp.
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Effect of a social media-based counselling intervention in countering fake news on COVID-19 vaccine in Nigeria

Felix Olajide Talabi, Ikechukwu Peter Ugbor, Moyinoluwa Joseph Talabi et al.
Health Promotion International, volume 37, issue 2: daab140 (2022), 10 pp.
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Climate change in Africa: Are Africans sleepwalking to disaster? Analysis of the conversations, stories and resulting narratives on climate in Africa

Rebecca Pointer, Sam Matsiko
Africa No Filter (2022), 36 pp.
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Médias sociaux en République du Congo: Entre monopole de l’information et déclin des médias classiques

Antonin Idriss Bossoto
Paris: L'Harmattan (2022), 112 pp.
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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Ethiopia: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.
"Various media freedom NGOs have noted that progress achieved in 2019 in terms of freedom of expression and of the media was disrupted by a series of internet shutdowns as well as by an anti-hate speech law adopted in 2020, whose vague provisions have drawn criticism from specialized observers. Furt ... more
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The ‘#tag Generation’: Social Media and Youth Participation in the 2019 General Election in Nigeria

Oluwasola Festus Obisean
Africa Development, volume 47, issue 2 (2022), pp. 107-145
"This article examines the roles of social media on youth’s political participation in the 2019 General Elections in Nigeria. It interrogates the roles played by these communication tools in the emancipation and agency of youths while revealing the double-edged implications the devices may have on ... more
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Hate Speech and Polarization in Participatory Society

Marta Pérez-Escolar, José Manuel Noguera-Vivo (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxv, 252 pp.
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From State Repression to Fear of Non-State Actors: Examining Emerging Threats of Journalism Practice in Ethiopia

Téwodros W. Workneh
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1909-1926
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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.
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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
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Handbook on Laws and Regulations Affecting Freedom of Expression, Media Freedom and Digital Rights in Zambia

Jane Chirwa, Austine Sitali (eds.)
Lusaka: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2022), vi, 74 pp.
"The handbook is an advocacy tool that details laws and regulations that enable and impact freedom of expression, media freedom, work of human rights defenders and activists in Zambia." (Publisher description)
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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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Post-koloniale Erinnerungsdiskurse in der Medienkultur: Der Genozid an den Ovaherero und Nama in der deutschsprachigen Presse von 2001 bis 2016

Kaya de Wolff
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 476 pp.
"Die Debatten um die Anerkennung des Ovaherero- und Nama-Genozids (1904-1908) im heutigen Namibia haben in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten wachsende öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Kaya de Wolff hat die deutschsprachige Presseberichterstattung in den Jahren 2001 bis 2016 über den Umgang mit de ... more
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Press Freedom in Nigeria: Seven Unresolved Killings, Over 300 Violations Underline Impunity Under Buhari's Administration

East Legon; Abuja: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA); Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) (2021), 16 pp.