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African Media Barometer: Cameroon 2018 = Barometre des médias africains: Cameroun 2018

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2018), 112 pp.

Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders;Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.

"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more

The State of Digital Publishing: Facts and Figures from Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

Nancy Brown, Rachel Heavner

San Francisco: Worldreader (2018), 25 pp.

"At a glance, there are a number of societal and infrastructural barriers to overcome before digital publishing has a huge market in these three countries. However, there are certainly opportunities at hand, particularly when it comes to testing and vetting content, where digital books can save publ ... more

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Les médias en Afrique depuis les indépendances: Bilan, enjeux et perspectives

Ndiaga Loum, Ibrahima Sarr (dir.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 268 pp.

Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.

"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more

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World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2019

Oxford: WRTH Publications, 73rd ed. (2018), 672 pp.

How Influential Are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales

International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231

"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward ... more

Risk Communication and Community Engagement Preparedness and Readiness Framework: Ebola Response in the Democratic Republic of Congo in North Kivu

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC);World Health Organization (WHO);UNICEF (2018), 46 pp.

Community Access and Participation in Community Radio Broadcast: Case of Radio Gaakii, Ghana

Amadu Mohammed Faisal, Amin Alhassan

Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 85-102

"This paper draws on the theory of participatory development communication to understand the nature and philosophy of community participation in development processes. It explored the symbiotic relationship between Carpentier (2011) and Arnstein’s (1969) theses on participation to propose four maj ... more

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When the Subaltern Speaks: Re-Examining Indigenous-Language Media as Alternative Public Sphere During Colonial South Africa

Gilbert Motsaathebe

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 10, issue 2 (2018), pp. 169-183

"This article attempts to examine the efficacy of indigenous-language newspapers published in South Africa during the colonial era. In doing so, the article is particularly interested to see how the success achieved by those publications could be replicated to boost post-apartheid indigenous-languag ... more

Glass Ceilings: Women in South African Media Houses

Glenda Daniels, Tarisai Nyamweda, Collin Nxumalo, Barbara Ludman

Johannesburg: Gender Links (2018), 84 pp.

"The third Glass Ceilings survey of South African media launched on 19 October - national press freedom day - 2018 shows there have been dramatic shifts in the race and gender composition of media since the first study twelve years ago. But black women are still not fairly represented in media decis ... more

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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker

London: GSMA;Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.

"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more

Exploiter les opportunités du numérique au profit du développement rural

Bonn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2018), 106 pp.

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The State of Humanitarian Journalism

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce

Humanitarian-journalism.net;University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.

"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not ... more

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Media Capacity Building in Sudan: A Measure of Success?

Nigel Baker, Helen Scott

African Journalism Studies, volume 39, issue 2 (2018), pp. 130-137

"A five-year, media capacity-building programme in Sudan gives some valuable pointers about how to keep a media-development programme alive—and the positive results that can be achieved through perseverance and a collaborative effort by stakeholders. The results included the introduction of a new ... more

Accounting for Youth Audiences’ Resistances to HIV and AIDS Messages in the Television Drama Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu

SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, volume 15, issue 1 (2018), pp. 20-30

"Using cultural studies as its conceptual framework and reception analysis as its methodology, this study investigated and accounted for the oppositional readings that subaltern black South African youths negotiate from Tsha Tsha, an E-E television drama on HIV and AIDS in South Africa. Results from ... more

Evaluation of Media Development Project

Olufela O. Adeyemi

UNDP (2018), 77 pp.

"There is a noticeable improvement in professional media practice in Sierra Leone since the project started. However, more work remains to be done to further improve professional media practice and ethics. The regulatory environment needs to be improved and the role of the Independent Media Commissi ... more

Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World

Patrick Eisenlohr

Oakland, California: University of California Press (2018), xi, 174 pp.

"Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, P ... more

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Comparative Media Studies in Africa: Challenges and Paradoxes

Susana Salgado

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Media and Communication Research in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), pp. 195-211

"Drawing on previous work on the role of the media in the democratization processes of the Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe), this chapter addresses the challenges and paradoxes of conducting comparative research focused on cont ... more