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Advocacy Capacity Training and Media Outreach Clinic: Workshop Report

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2013), 30 pp.
"The Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) together with the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) organised a two and a half day training workshop from 20th to 22nd February 2013, for the Uganda-Poverty and Conservation Learning Group members (U-PCLG) ... more
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Mapping Digital Media: Kenya

George Nyabuga, Nancy Booker
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 94 pp.
"In online journalism, the virtues associated with ethics—accuracy, honesty, truth, impartiality, fairness, balance, respect for autonomy of ordinary people—are barely respected, largely because there is no effective way of policing this, and there are no legal penalties. Concentration of owners ... more
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Media Perceptions and Portrayals of Pastoralists in Kenya, India and China

Mike Shanahan
London: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (2013), 28 pp.
"Pastoralists use their mobility to take advantage of resources – pasture and water – that are patchily distributed in space and time. Pastoralism can make major contributions to food security, livelihoods and economic prosperity. However, these benefits often go unacknowledged – by policy mak ... more
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Dimensions of Advertising Theory and Practice in Africa

Rotimi Williams Olatunji, Beatrice A. Laninhun (eds.)
Dakar: Amalion Publishing (2013), xxii, 256 pp.
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"Good Information is in Short Supply": Kenyan Farmers and Their Assessment of Information on Agricultural Innovation

Christoph Spurk, Michael Schanne, Mureij Mak’Ochieng, Wilson Ugangu
Zürich: Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM); Multimedia University College of Kenya (MMU) (2013), 50 pp.
"This research project addressed specifically the information-seeking behaviour of small scale farming households in Kenya. It focused on how farmers are informed about innovation on new methods of increasing agricultural productivity, which is one of the main challenges for Africa's agriculture and ... more
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Baseline Community and Decision Maker Media Perception Survey

Ipsos Synovate; Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2013), 104 pp.
"This study has looked at the opinions of ordinary citizens (n=2000) as well as a small sample of decision makers at community level (n=200). Chapters 1 and 2 provide a background sketch and methodology for the survey, followed by a detailed overview of the findings for the general public and decisi ... more
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When Words Were Weapons: Kenya’s Media Turn the Tide on Hate Speech and Conflict

Callie Long
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2013), 71 pp.
"When violence broke out in the final days of 2007 after a bitterly contested election in Kenya, Internews responded within days, working with journalists who were trying and failing to make sense of the unprecedented post-election conflict that swept across their country. Five and a half years late ... more
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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom; UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2013), 416 pp.
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Gender and Media = Genre et Médias

Africa Media Review, volume 21, issue 1-2 (2013), pp. 1-192
"The articles contained in this special issue build on the conversations initiated at the Cairo Symposium and try to make sense of the shifts and transformations in media and gender relations in Africa. Some bring new perspectives to bear on how traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio and te ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2013), 240 pp.
"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more
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Global Hotspots: Media Use in Mali and Somalia 2013

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2013), 60 slides
"Strategic Considerations for a Mali Communications Strategy: Don't forget the importance of local language to reach broad cross-section of the population. Broadcast media remain paramount; on a national radio is likely to be the key medium. Digital is still mostly a niche phenomenon." (Slide 39) "S ... more
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Die Rolle der Medien im Demokratisierungsprozess Kenias

Doris Anna Binger
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2013), 332 pp.
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The Media in Society: Religious Radio Stations, Socio-Religious Discourse and National Cohesion in Tanzania

Francis Xavier Ng’atigwa
Bayreuth: Bayreuth University, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Doctoral Thesis (2013), xiv, 215 pp.
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Village Voices for Development: A Study in the Use of Radio to Promote Human Rights and Enable Citizens to Act on Their Rights to Information and Freedom of Speech in Southern Madagascar

Yvonne Orengo, Nicola Harford
Tolagnaro (RM); London: Andry-Lalana-Tohana (ALT); Andrew Lees Trust (2013), 62 pp.
"The purpose of this report is to share the key findings of the VVD radio project in Southern Madagascar after six months of broadcasts in 2012, in particular to document the design and evolution of the pilot project; feedback the outcomes to participating stakeholders; inform the donor community ab ... more
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Exploring the Promise of Information and Communication Technologies for Women Farmers in Kenya

Cristina Manfre, Caitlin Nordehn
USAID (2013), 10 pp.
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New Technology and the Prevention of Violence and Conflict

Francesco Mancini (ed.)
New York: International Peace Institute (IPI); UNDP (2013), iv, 94 pp.
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The Media Landscape in 54 Countries: Country Profiles from the 2011 and 2012 UIS Pilot Surveys

Paris: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 155 pp.
"The current UIS Questionnaire on Media Statistics provides information for three UNESCO frameworks, namely the Media and Information Literacy Framework, the Media Development Indicators Framework and the Framework for Cultural Statistics. The questionnaire collects data for reporting global progres ... more
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Hungry but silent: A content analysis of media reporting on the 2011-12 famine in Somalia

Richard Stupart
Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Master Thesis (2013), 104 pp.
"This dissertation examines media coverage of the 2011-2012 famine in Somalia by the websites of BBC News, CNN and Al Jazeera. Using both quantitative and qualitative content analyses, it asks why coverage of the famine began as late as it did, despite ample evidence of the coming famine. It further ... more
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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)
Wiley; Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.
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Lions Go Digital: The Internet’s Transformative Potential in Africa

James Manyika, Armando Cabral, Lohini Moodley, Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Suraj Moraje, Michael Chui, Jerry Anthonyrajah, Acha Leke
McKinsey (2013), 112 pp.
"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid ... more