commbox Africa

Filter

6439

Sort by:

Direction:

External Link (9)

Political messaging and information disorder during the 2020 Ghanaian elections: A multi-study analysis of verified misinformation and political social media engagement

Adedeji Adekunle

Abuja: Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) (2021), 37 pp.

Download (0)

Hateful Speech and Conflict in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia: A Lexicon of Hateful and Inflammatory Words and Phrases

Nicola Barrach-Yousefi et al.

Washington, DC: PeaceTech Lab;Centre for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD);Destiny Ethiopia Project (2021), 56 pp.

"The list of terms included in this lexicon, as well as their proposed meaning and contextualization, are not static. Instead, the lexicon is a ‘snapshot’ (in time and space) of how hateful language is used, perceived, and understood by those who contributed to the research process in Ethiopia b ... more

Google Scholar (8)

WorldCat (8)

Afrika

Marco Moerschbacher (ed.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2021), x, 615 pp.

"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a ... more

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (9)

La coopération et la formation professionnelle

Arthur Félicien Sabi-Djaboudi

In: Politique(s) de communication, enjeux et défis de la mondialisation: reculs et avancées de l'expérience gabonaise

Arthur Félicien Sabi-Djaboudi

Louvain-la-Neuve: L'Harmattan – Academia (2021), pp. 325-335

"Après l’ingénierie, les équipements et la fourniture des programmes, la formation professionnelle est le troisième axe de la coopération des pays africains avec les pays occidentaux. L’assistance des pays ou d’agences étrangères a permis de créer des centres de formation dans certains ... more

External Link (13)

Google Scholar (9)

WorldCat (9)

“In their own words”: Journalistic mediation of electoral conflict in polarized Zimbabwe

Admire Mare, Stanley Tsarwe

In: Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Africa

Jacinta Maweu; Admire Mare (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021), 18 pp.

"This chapter examines Zimbabwean print journalists’ everyday newsmaking experiences during the 2008 disputed harmonized elections. The article is sequel to our article (Tsarwe and Mare 2019), which exclusively relied on qualitative content analysis of a state-owned weekly (The Sunday Mail) and tw ... more

Download (1)

Leveraging Technology for Peacebuilding in the ECOWAS Region: Documentation of a Consultative Process

Caleb Gichuhi

Abuja: ECOWAS Commission (2021), 36 pp.

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (11)

Médias et conflits armés en RDC: Des journalistes en danger, le journalisme en chantier

Pierre N'Sana Bitentu

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 326 pp.

"[Ce livre] examine les pratiques journalistiques qui ont caractérisé la couverture médiatique du conflit armé ayant opposé les Forces armées de la RDC à la rébellion du Mouvement du 23 mars (M23) dans la province du Nord Kivu. L’auteur scrute le positionnement des journalistes des radios ... more

External Link (10)

Understanding Listener Behavior: 2021 South Sudan National Audience Survey

Forcier Consulting;Internews;USAID (2021), 77 pp.

"Conclusions and actionable recommendations to media stakeholders and Internews including: improving access to radio and television in Unity State would likely produce a substantial increase in overall media consumption in Unity State; improving access to smartphones in Warrap State would potentiall ... more

Google Scholar (4)

WorldCat (4)

Médias audiovisuels et tolérance administrative au Cameroun: Enjeux communicationnels et logiques d’acteurs

Simon Ngongo

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 199 pp.

External Link (6)

Ghana 2020 Elections: Monitoring of Indecent Language on Radio. June 2020-January 2021

Accra: Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2021), 34 pp.

Google Scholar (4)

WorldCat (2)

Liberté, droit et responsabilité médiatiques: Trois piliers de la pratique du journalisme en contexte congolais

Rigobert Munkeni Lapess

Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 201 pp.

"Le journalisme congolais se pratique dans un contexte délicat qui allie la liberté d’informer, les contraintes qu’appelle le respect des lois et règlements ainsi qu’une véritable prise de conscience de la responsabilité des acteurs et des instances médiatiques. C’est pourquoi la prati ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (13)

Radio Drama as a Tool for Activism in South Africa: The Case of 'Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona'

Neroli Price, Laura Garbes

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 59-77

"How can sound be utilized as a tool for political conscientization? COVID-19 has disrupted face-to-face organizing tactics for progressive movements globally, making it necessary to branch out to more mediated forms of grassroots political organizing. In this article, we explore how sound might be ... more

External Link (5)

Retrouver du lien : S’informer au sein des communautés déplacées au Mali au temps de la COVID-19. An nformation ecosystem assessment

USAID;Internews (2021), 79 pp.

Download (0)

Informing Hard-to-Reach Immigrant Groups about COVID-19—Reaching the Somali Population in Oslo

Jan-Paul Brekke

Journal of Refugee Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2021), pp. 641-661

"This article provides a case study of an information campaign directed at people of Somali decent living in the worst hit district of Oslo, the capital of Norway. The Somalis were the immigrant group most affected by the COVID-19 in Norway during the first wave of the pandemic. The campaign used se ... more

External Link (18)

Google Scholar (13)

WorldCat (14)

Routledge Handbook of African Media and Communication Studies

Winston Mano, Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp.

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... more

External Link (12)

Google Scholar (10)

WorldCat (10)

Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model Through Developmentality in Malawi

Suzanne Temwa Harris

In: Media, Development and Democracy

Heloisa Pait; Juliana Laet (eds.)

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), pp. 23-44

"When questioning the relationship between media, development, and democracy, especially in the ill-defined “Global South,” it’s important to go beyond the commonly held meta-narratives that frame these concepts as common sense. In a quest to investigate alternative characterizations of these ... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (14)

WorldCat (14)

Media Accountability in Africa: A Study of Policies and Practices at Two Newsrooms in Kenya

Jared Obuya

Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 47, issue 1 (2021), pp. 42-59

"Media accountability has attracted the interest of journalism scholars, media managers and policy makers as the debate grows on how to ensure a free and accountable media. However, media accountability is rarely studied beyond the theoretical and academic debate, especially in many parts of Africa. ... more

Download (0)

The Politics of Impunity and the Shifting Media Landscape in Kenya

Philip Onguny

Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 61-78

"This article focuses on state-media relations and the shifts in the overall media landscape in Kenya. Drawing on a political economy approach to media operations in Kenya, it argues that while there are competing meanings over what constitutes "news values", "editorial independence", and "critical ... more

External Link (15)

Google Scholar (11)

WorldCat (12)

Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
Top Insights

Lee C. Bollinger, Agnès Callamard (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xxiv, 409 pp.

"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a ... more

Download (0)

Press Freedom and Cybercrimes: Combating Online Harassment on Digital Media in Nigeria

Samson Ojodomo Onuche

African Journal of Criminal Law And Jurisprudence, volume 6 (2021), pp. 137-151

"The role of the Media to the growth and development of a democratic society cannot be overemphasized. Over the years, the media have served as a watch dog in every society, prompting the need for International and National legislation protecting the Right to Press Freedom. While attacks and threat ... more

Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World Top Insights

Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
Top Insights