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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405

"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more

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Remediating Orality: The Cultural Domestication of Video Technology in Kenya

James Odhiambo Ogone

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 4 (2015), pp. 479-495

"The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality ... more

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Handbuch der Medienethnographie

Cora Bender, Martin Zillinger (eds.)

Berlin: Reimer (2015), lii, 442 pp.

"Ethnographische Methoden haben heute in alle kultur- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen Eingang gefunden. Auch in der Medienforschung spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Dieses Handbuch trägt die Methodendiskussion in der Medienethnologie zusammen und entwickelt sie am Beispiel konkreter Feldfo ... more

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Bridging the Gender Gap: Mobile Access and Usage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Connected Women 2015

Shireen Santosham, Dominica Lindsey

GSMA;Altai Consulting (2015), 128 pp.

"Women on average are 14% less likely to own a mobile phone than men, which translates into 200 million fewer women than men owning mobile phones. Women in South Asia are 38% less likely to own a phone than men, highlighting that the gender gap in mobile phone ownership is wider in certain parts of ... more

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Interim Assessment of Media Development in South Sudan

Paris: UNESCO (2015), xii, 60 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Tanzania 2015

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2015), 69 pp.

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Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur

Joachim J. Savelsberg

Oakland: University of California Press (2015), xix, 341 pp.

"How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the ... more

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Crowdfunding in Emerging Markets: Lessons from East African Startups

Washington, DC: World Bank (2015), 15 pp.

"The discussion of opportunity costs, choosing a platform and networking strategies highlights the clear need for more industry data and transparency [...] Further, the private sector can monetize research on network effects and fundraising norms across the continent [...] Regarding the supply of ca ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines, 2015 Edition

Bill Sweeney (ed.)

New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);Wiley (2015), 256 pp.

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Can Radio Drama Improve Child Health and Nutrition in Somalia?

Shiri Landman, Angela Githitho Muriithi

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 11 pp.

"1. Radio, particularly BBC Somali, is an effective medium for reaching people in remote areas of Somalia who are typically hard to reach, including the poorest [...] 2. Drama has been shown to have a particularly powerful role in encouraging audiences to absorb new and relevant information. Tragic ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh ... more

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Trauma and Public Memory

Jane Goodall, Christopher Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xii, 231 pp.

"This collection of essays and interviews offers perspectives on traumatic experience from the social and public side of the equation. Like other books in the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, it is concerned with redressing the balance of public memory through a focus on what has been negle ... more

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National Communication Strategy for Malaria Control in Uganda

Kampala: Ministry of Health (2015), 40 pp.

"This Uganda national communication strategy for malaria prevention and control has been developed to facilitate the implementation of the Uganda Malaria Reduction Strategy (UMRS) 2014-2020. The strategy will offer a framework where every stakeholder shall take recommended actions to fund, prevent, ... more

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Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas

John Baptist Imokola

Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.

"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man ... more

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Customary Law and Media Regulation in Conflict and Post-Conflict States

Nicole Stremlau

In: Routledge Handbook of Media Law

Monroe E. Price; Stefaan Verhulst; Libby Morgan (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2015), pp. 237-252

"In the process of drafting new media laws for states emerging from violent confl ict, or transitioning towards more democratic governments, the role of customary law is often overlooked. While “best practices” or international standards draw on widely accepted norms of international human right ... more

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Metodologias participativas: Os media e a educação

Maria José Brites, Ana Jorge, Sílvio Corrella Santos (eds.)

Covilhã: Livros LabCom (2015), iv, 311 pp.

"Este livro reúne experiências e reflexões de académicos e não académicos sobre as potencialidades dos media para envolver e capacitar comunidades. Ao longo destas páginas, encontram-se textos que documentam propostas educativas e cívicas em torno dos media ou refletem sobre as capacidades d ... more

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Training Manual on Litigation of Freedom of Expression in East Africa

Media Legal Defence Initiative (MLDI) (2015), 62 pp.

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Development Discourse in Kenyan Vernacular Radio: A Case Study of Kass FM

Hillary K. Sang

Research on Humanities and Social Siences, volume 5, issue 6 (2015), pp. 63-72

"Language is a major tool for governance and dissemination of information. Citizens need to participate effectively in discourse pertaining to their private and public interests and enterprises in order to understand matters of development and governance. The proliferation of vernacular radio statio ... more

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Edutainment TV for Disseminating Information About Agriculture

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (2015), 2 pp.

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The Role of Media in War and Peace in South Sudan

Jok Madut Jok

Juba: Sudd Institute (2015), 13 pp.