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Smart Phones and Social Bonds: Communication Technology and Inter-Ethnic Cooperation in Kenya

Charles Martin-Shields, Elizabeth Stones
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 9, issue 3 (2014), pp. 50-64
"The expansion of access to mobile phones in the developing world has provided new opportunities for development and peacebuilding institutions to reach communities, and for communities to develop local development and peacebuilding solutions. Kenya has seen a particularly high concentration of prog ... more
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BBC Media Action’s Governance Research: Emerging Evidence and Learning

Josephine Casserly, Sara Elias, Zoe Fortune
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 57 pp.
"The paper synthesises findings from quantitative and qualitative data from across African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries. The second section draws on baseline data from Bangladesh, Burma, Kenya, Nepal, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories and Sierra Leone to explore the media and governance contex ... more
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Media, Participation and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau
Journal of African Law, volume 58, issue 2 (2014), pp. 231-249
"In the early 1990s, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), drafted one of Africa’s most ambitious constitutions, allowing for ethnic federalism, decentralization and democratic reforms. The constitution has been highly controversial and many of ... more
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The Political Economic History of the Introduction of Television in Kenya

George Ngugi King'ara
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 73-86
"This article explores the factors surrounding the introduction of television broadcasting in Kenya, and those issues that have historically instigated how television producers in Kenyan television conceptualise audiences. It highlights that the political economic legacy of the beginnings of broadca ... more
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The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future

Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...] ... more
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Internews Humanitarian Information Service: UNMISS POC SITE - MALAKAL. Baseline Assessment

Internews; Forcier Consulting (2014), 8 pp.
"On 4th July 2014, Internews launched Boom Box Talk Talk (BBTT) in the Malakal, UN Mission Protection of Civilian (PoC) site, to provide people affected by the conflict with life saving and life enhancing information. BBTT is a professionally produced audio Humanitarian Information Service (HIS). In ... more
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Mobile Phones and Participatory Communication for Poverty Eradication on Public Service Broadcasting: The Case of Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC)

Amani K. Millanga
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 2, issue 3 (2014), pp. 281-297
"In this article it is argued that members of audience from different parts of Tanzania use mobile phones to participate in dialogue taking place on national radio (TBC-TAIFA) and/or national television (TBC1), and share their knowledge and lived experiences with the national audience as if they liv ... more
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The Tension Between Ethics and Ethnicity: Examining Journalists’ Ethical Decision-Making at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

Herman Wasserman, Jacinta Mwende Maweu
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 2 (2014), pp. 165-179
"This article analyses how ethnicity influences the ethical decisions of journalists at the Nation Media Group (NMG) in Kenya. Ethnic identity is regarded as one of the key factors that shape the political beliefs of Kenyans in general, and for journalists and media practitioners in particular ethni ... more
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Challenging humanitarian communication: An empirical exploration of Kony 2012

Johannes von Engelhardt, Jeroen Jansz
International Communication Gazette, volume 76, issue 6 (2014), pp. 464-484
"In March 2012, American NGO Invisible Children released an online video about the crimes committed by Ugandan war lord Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army. Rapidly shared through social network sites, Kony 2012 soon earned the title of fastest spreading online video ever produced. At the s ... more
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Assessing the sustainability of media (reporting) in the Republic of Mauritius

M. Y. Mohobuth
Port Louis: University of Technology, Master Thesis (2014), 85 pp.
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Communications, Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management

Raquel Vazquez Llorente, Imogen Wall (eds.)
European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2014), 68 pp.
"The articles contained in this publication are dispatches from a new frontline in humanitarian action: the digital frontier. All are written by those observing, experiencing and attempting to respond to the challenges created by the digital revolution and the very real threats it is creating for hu ... more
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Kenya's Media Landscape: A Success Story with Serious Structural Challenges

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)
Leipzig: Vistas (2014), 180 pp.
"Kenya’s 2010 Constitution guarantees press freedom in a way the country has never previously seen. However, the concentration of media ownership and pending consensus on new media legislation are tarnishing the triumphs of Kenya’s media liberalization and development. Regulation of news content ... more
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Re-thinking the workings of community radios: how community is a community radio in Uganda

David Ouma Balikowa, G. W. Ssebaggala et al.
Kampala: Unwanted Witness Uganda (2014), vi, 20 pp.
"Community radios in Uganda have to overcome funding hurdles if they must retain their original community service mission. Trying to imitate commercial radio in order to win the approval of advertisers is not in their best interest in the long run. Instead they need to believe in themselves, win rec ... more
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Annual Report 2014

Dar es Salaam: World Family of Radio Maria Africa (2014), 21 pp.
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Seizing Opportunities: For Free and Independent Media Worldwide

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 34 pp.
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An Assessment of Community Radio in the Context of Rural Development in Kenya

James Pharaoh Ochichi
University of Nairobi, Doctoral Thesis (2014), xiii, 282 pp.
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Laws Governing Media Practice in Kenya: A Journalists’ Handbook

Nairobi: Association of Media Women in Kenya (AMWIK) (2014), iv, 39 pp.
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Women and Media: Africa in Focus

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 35 slides
"Education and language skills are the main factors that influence which platform women access most frequently. Daily TV use is similar for men and women but women tend to lag men in frequent radio and internet use. Once a country reaches a critical mass in mobile penetration, gaps between both male ... more
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The Concept of Public Service Broadcasting in a Changing Africa: A Tanzanian Experience

Amani Millanga
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 7-25
"The central argument in this article is that the concept of public service broadcasting (PSB) in ‘a changing Africa’ has been changing, reflecting the changes in political, economic and sociocultural sceneries in Africa. Thus, from a Tanzanian experience, this article is an overview of the conc ... more