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Les médias d'état au Gabon: Permanence et mutations

Arthur Sabi Djaboudi

Paris: L'Harmattan (2017), 290 pp.

"Les médias d’État au Gabon seront pendant longtemps l’objet de querelles politiques et de discussions publiques qui ont convaincu le pouvoir de les inclure dans son domaine réservé, contrôlé stratégiquement par le ministère de l’Information. Depuis l’accession du pays à l’indépe ... more

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Media Development, DAC, and China: Different Approaches, Same Public Diplomacy

Valerie A. Cooper

Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-37

"More than US $441 million was spent on media development worldwide in 2012, with African countries receiving 28% of that amount. This funding came from a variety of sources, including both established Development Assistance Committee (DAC) countries and emerging donors such as China. These countrie ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp, Jessica White (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.

"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice ... more

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Improving Maternal and Child Health Through Media in South Sudan: Final Evaluation

Trish Doherty, Karen O’Connor

London: BBC Media Action (2017), 51 pp.

"Following decades of civil war, South Sudan still lacks a functioning healthcare system and has some of the worst maternal and child health indicators in the world. To help address this, between 2012 and 2017 BBC Media Action produced and broadcast a range of national radio programmes seeking to in ... more

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Radio and Revolution

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 12, issue 2 (2017), pp. 1-86

"Radio from its beginning has been a revolutionary technology adaptable both to violent overthrow of corrupt regimes and gradual almost unheeded social change. This issue of WPCC invited submission of papers on the subject of radio and revolution. We suggested that revolution be intended in its broa ... more

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Watching Out for Media: An Institutional Ethnographic Perspective on the Feminist Democratic Media Activism of "Media Monitoring Africa"

Giuliana Sorce

Pennsylvania State University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), xi, 180 pp.

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Etude sur le développement des médias à Madagascar basée sur les indicateurs de développement des médias de l'UNESCO

Raharinirina Rabaovololona

Paris: UNESCO (2017), 137 pp.

"Cette étude présente une évaluation du développement des médias à Madagascar dans un contexte de retour au fonctionnement démocratique des institutions suite à la crise politique des années 2009-2013 qui s’est traduite par une forte instabilité politique et un marasme économique. Elle ... more

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Job Autonomy: How Kenyan Newspeople Perceive their Journalistic Latitudes

Kioko Ireri

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 90-114

"National in scope, this survey of Kenyan journalists conducted in 2012–2013 (n = 504) examines job autonomy in news selection decisions, media freedom and predictors of journalistic autonomy. The research also investigates the relationship between Kenya’s media freedom and journalistic autonomy ... more

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Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation

Anthea Garman, Herman Wasserman (eds.)

Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.

"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisat ... more

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Beyond Access: Addressing Digital Inequality in Africa

Alison Gillwald

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2017), 17 pp.

"Although most Africans remain disconnected from the Internet, and access to broadband services continues to be a central policy issue, the increased availability of broadband services alone will not reduce digital inequality on the continent. While the provision of access to the Internet remains a ... more

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IGF Academy Transfer Guide: Sharing Learning and Experience from Year One

Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Ralf Grötker, Matthias Spielkamp (eds.)

Berlin: iRights;IGF Academy (2017), 59 pp.

"This publication is what we call our Transfer Guide. It serves three different purposes. First, it documents the work done by the IGF Academy team and the eight fellows in 2016. Together, we mapped those stakeholders involved (or who should be involved) in Internet governance in the eight countries ... more

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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis

Nebojša Vladisavljevic, Katrin Voltmer

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.

"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S ... more

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Structural Working Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists Reporting on Democratisation Conflicts

Judith Lohner, Irene Neverla, Sandra Banjac

Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 21 pp.

"The structural conditions of journalism are shaped by legacies of the past (marked by non-democratic regimes and sometimes colonial rule) and persisting power structures. The state and powerful political actors are perceived to play an important role in the media sector, mirrored in different forms ... more

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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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Anya Schiffrin (ed.)

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.

"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are ... more

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15. Afrika Film Festival Köln, 21. September bis 01. Oktober 2017. Fokus: Landgrabbing & Migration

Cologne: FilmInitiativ Köln (2017), 163 pp.

"Going to the cinema means going on a journey” reads one of the banners in Ouagadougou that have been put up to promote the legendary pan-African FESPACO film festival. Afrika Film Festival Köln has also been taking its guests on audiovisual journeys through African cinescapes for 25 years. More ... more

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Tanzania: Freedom of Expression in Peril

Mélissa Cornet

Paris: International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH);Legal and Human Rights Centre (2017), 20 pp.

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Using Digital and Social Media to Monitor and Reduce Violence in Kenya’s Elections

Caitriona Dowd

Brighton: Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2017), 4 pp.

"Social media and digital technology offer immense potential for citizens, policymakers and practitioners to raise awareness of, monitor, and respond to violence. With Kenya’s elections approaching, technology can help to raise awareness of insecurity, support early warning, combat incitement of v ... more

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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.

According to the executive summary "Facebook’s Free Basics program aims to help bridge the digital divide through a mobile-based platform that allows users to connect to a handful of online services free of charge [...] This paper highlights the following findings: Language: Free Basics does not m ... more

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Radio Distribution Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews;USAID (2017), 56 pp.

"This Radio Distribution Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience conducting radio distributions within the United Nations Protection of Civilians sites (PoCs) and surrounding communities [...] “Part I. Context” describes th ... more

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Migration von Subsahara-Afrika nach Europa: Motive, Informationsquellen und Wahrnehmung deutschen Engagements

Anke Fiedler

Stuttgart; Berlin: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa);Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2017), 54 pp.

"In dieser Studie wird mithilfe qualitativer Fokusgruppendiskussionen mit Migranten bzw. mit Menschen mit Migrationsabsicht aus Subsahara-Afrika (i) nach Motiven für Migration, (ii) nach der Nutzung von Informationen und dem Wissen über Migration sowie (iii) nach der Rolle von Projekten der intern ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
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