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Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries
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Irene V. Pasquetto, Eaman Jahani, Alla Baranovsky, Matthew A. Baum

Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy (2020), 27 pp.

"We conducted a mixed-methods research project in Nigeria, India, and Pakistan consisting of surveys, survey experiments, and semi-structured interviews, to better understand the spread and impact of misinformation, and in particular of misinformation on mobile messaging apps (MIMs). One of our goal ... more

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Transactional Radio Instruction: Improving Educational Outcomes for Children in Conflict Zones

Jacob Udo-Udo Jacob, Margee Ensign

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2020), xxvi, 219 pp.

"This book demonstrates how the authors used radio and mobile technologies to improve educational outcomes for over 20,000 displaced and out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria at the height of the Boko Haram insurgency. Interactive Radio Instruction (IRI) programs typically interact with a func ... more

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Illegal assaults and treatment of journalists: A big challenge to the journalism profession in Nigeria

Adegboyega Adedolapo Ola

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, volume 12, issue 3 (2020), pp. 151-161

"One of the greatest obstacles confronting the journalism profession in the discharge of their duties is the indiscriminate physical and digital threat being experienced by journalists all over the world, particularly within sub-Saharan Africa. The continuous attacks facing journalists in Africa, mo ... more

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Las radios comunitarias en el entramado mediático de la República Democrática del Congo

Modeste Munimi Osung

Madrid: Universidad Complutense, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 466 pp.

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Kommunikation ist Mission

Fabrizio Colombo

Forum Weltkirche, volume 139, issue 4 (2020), pp. 18-23

"Kommunikation und die modernen Medien sind für ihn kein bloßes Instrument, sondern Teil des heutigen Lebensumfelds der Menschen. Seit vielen Jahren schult Fabrizio Colombo katholische Jugendliche, kirchliche Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter sowie Priester und Bischöfe in Afrika im Umgang mit dig ... more

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The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety

Gifty Appiah-Adjei

In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety

Sadia Jamil (ed.)

Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 186-213

"Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in Ghana. So, the study aims to examine how the ... more

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Sustainable Peacebuilding Strategies. Peacebuilding Operations in Nakuru County, Kenya: Contribution to the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (CJPC)

Florence Muia

Geneva: Globethics.net (2020), 206 pp.

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Les 40 ans de la Radio Télévision Guinéenne

Ibrahima Diabi

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 179 pp.

"Fruit de la coopération bilatérale entre la République arabe libyenne et la République de Guinée, la Télévision nationale est née le 14 mai 1977. À cette époque, le petit écran était encore un luxe que beaucoup de pays africains n’arrivaient pas à s’offrir. La coopération multilat ... more

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Indigenizing Radio in Ghana

Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo, Audrey Gadzekpo

Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 18, issue 1 (2020), pp. 95-112

"Radio is hailed as Africa’s medium of choice in the global communication age. Introduced as a colonial tool of information, education and entertainment in the early 1930s, radio broadcasting was mainly in colonial languages as colonial administrators perceived local language broadcasting a threat ... more

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Débats ou combats télévisés ? Esquisse de socioanalyse du jeu médiatico-politique au Cameroun

Valentin Nga Ndongo

Paris: L'Harmattan (2020), 90 pp.

"Cet ouvrage analyse le contenu des débats télévisés régulièrement organisés au Cameroun, de 2017 à 2020, à la faveur de la libéralisation politique, du moins en principe, et de celle, subséquente, du secteur médiatique, en particulier la télévision. Il se dégage de cette analyse que ... more

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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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Sarah Chiumbu, Mehita Iqani (eds.)

Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa (2020), xii, 340 pp.

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World Entertainment Media: Global, Regional and Local Perspectives

Paolo Sigismondi (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2020), xvi, 210 pp.

"There are still opposing and restraining forces to globalization processes taking place in media, and the global mediascape comprises international, regional and local markets, and global and local players, which in recent years have evolved at an uneven pace. By analyzing similarities and differen ... more

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Low-Data Mobile Apps: Latest Innovation Frontier for Community Radio Stations in Rwanda

Emmanuel Munyarukumbuzi

3CMedia: Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication, issue 10 (2020), pp. 7-23

"This paper examines the motivation of audiences to participate in the programming of community radio; the readiness of community radio stations’ management and their audiences to embrace mobile applications; whether Rwanda is a conducive environment for the deployment of mobile applications in co ... more

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The Impact of Chinese Tech Provision on Civil Liberties in Africa

Iginio Gagliardone

Johannesburg: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) (2020), 19 pp.

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Report: The Perception of COVID-19 Communication in West Africa (non-Sahel)

Abuja: UNESCO (2020), 25 pp.

"According to the respondents (522 respondents), people pay most attention to "prevention methods from COVID-19" (3.82 out of the full score 5). On the contrary, the respondents pay relatively less attention to "Pandemic Statistics (local, national, and international)" (3.55 out of the full score 5) ... more

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Healthy Scepticism Across the Board: A Study on Media Perception in Sudan

Aida Kaisy

Berlin: Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2020), 18 pp.

"Social media is the most dominant source of news, with television and radio both declining in popularity amongst young audiences. Social media is popular due to its accessibility and speed of reporting events. Countering the commonly high popularity of radio in Africa, radio was seen as outdated an ... more

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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
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Ke Zhang, Curtis J. Bonk, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds (eds.)

New York: Routledge (2020), xxx, 358 pp.

"With e-learning technologies evolving and expanding at high rates, organizations and institutions around the world are integrating massive open online courses (MOOCs) and other open educational resources (OERs). MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South explores the initiatives that are leveragi ... more

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Licensing Practices in a Global Digital Market

International Publishers Association (IPA);Norwegian Publishers Association (2020), 89 pp.

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Sierra Leone

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.

"Sierra Leone continues to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through the dissemination of information across various platforms. The media have generally been supportive in providing the public with information and education about COVID-19. However, media owners and managers continue to raise concerns ... more

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The Digital Exclusion of Women with Disabilities: A Study of Seven Low- and Middle-Income Countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga ... more

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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities Top Insights

Understanding Misinformation on Mobile Instant Messengers (MIMs) in Developing Countries
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Media Studies: Critical African and Decolonial Approaches
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MOOCs and Open Education in the Global South: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
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