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Somalia: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 92 pp.
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The Marketization of Foreign News

Bella Mody
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 2 (2012), pp. 99-115
"Audience segmentation is generally associated with strategic communication (such as advertising and public relations), where content is manipulated to suit reader preferences. News has generally been considered truth-telling unvarnished by such concerns. This article compares how news of the same h ... more
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Mapping the Somali Media: An Overview

Mohamed Husein Gaas, Stig Jarle Hansen, David Berry
Aas (NO): Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB), Department of International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric (2012), iii, 24 pp.
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The Performance of Vernacular Radio Stations in Kenya: Monitoring Report

Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2012), viii, 33 pp.
"The Media Council of Kenya (MCK), the statutory body established under the Media Act 2007 that regulates media and advances professionalism of the media in Kenya, monitored a set of ten vernacular radio stations in September/October 2011 in order to assess their current performance. The study looke ... more
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Facilitating Dialog About Development Through Digital Photography: Seeing Through the Eyes of Maasai Women

Benson P. Fraser, William J. Brown, Corey Wright, Steven L. Kiruswa
Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, volume 5, issue 1 (2012), pp. 20-42
"In recent decades the Maasai of East Africa have undergone substantive cultural change in response to national development efforts. This study uses participant observation, in-depth interviews, and digital photography to better understand the lived experience and development perspectives of Maasai ... more
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Chad and the Darfur Refugee Crisis: Internews Humanitarian Information Service's Program in Chad 2005-2012

Celeste Hicks, Meredith Kohut
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2012), 56 pp.
"Starting in 2005, Internews built three humanitarian radio stations in Eastern Chad to help those fleeing the violence in Darfur to receive the critical news and information they needed to survive. Seven years after the first station went on air, Internews has left eastern Chad as funding to intern ... more
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KONY 2012, Military Humanitarianism, and the Magic of Occult Economies

Sverker Finnström
Africa Spectrum, volume 47, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 127-135
"The global success of the film KONY 2012 by Invisible Children, Inc., manifests far greater magical powers than those of Joseph Kony and his ruthless Lord’s Resistance Army, which it portrays. The most prominent feature of the Invisible Children lobby is the making and constant remaking of a mast ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Radio

John Allen Hendricks (ed.)
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xxxiv, 590 pp.
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Mapping Digital Media: Digital Media, Conflict and Diasporas in the Horn of Africa

Iginio Gagliardone, Nicole Stremlau
London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 23 pp.
"The Horn of Africa is one of the least connected regions in the world. Nevertheless, digital media play an important social and political role in Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia (including South-Central Somalia and the northern self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland). This paper shows how ... more
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Country Case Study: South Sudan. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Kate Noble, Carol Morgan
London: BBC Media Action (2012), 20 pp.
Presenting the challenges in meeting the information needs of the people of South Sudan, this report highlights a need for long-term and harmonised efforts to support media.
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Shielding Marginalized Groups from Verbal Assaults Without Abusing Hate Speech Laws

Yared Legesse Mengistu
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 352-277
"There is immense difficulty in regulating hate speech on the ground of ethnicity when ethnicity is a prime cehicle for political organization and mobilization. On the one hand, substantive (real) equality demands that certain marginalized ethnic gropus be shielded from hate speech in order to have ... more
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania

Vipul Khosla, Kavita Abraham Dowsing
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 289-311
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Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

New York: Routledge (2012), xvi, 255 pp.
"The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania through innovative forms of ethnographic representation. The book and the series website weave together visual and aural narratives, interviews and observations, life stories and video docu ... more
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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets: Kenya

Paris; Nairobi: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2012), 41 pp.
"Kenya has been the scene of sweeping technological innovations, but these have often benefited solely affluent urban and foreign markets. Poorly developed infrastructure and program design have delayed benefits for the broader Kenyan public. In addition, Kenya’s innovations have proven difficult ... more
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Resource Kit for Gender-Ethical Journalism and Media-House Policy. Book 1: Conceptual Issues

Sarah Macharia, Pamela Morinière (eds.)
Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2012), 59 pp.
"This learning resource kit aims to provide an answer to the current gender gap in news content and lack of existing self-regulatory mechanisms to confront gender bias. It is organised in two books that may be read independently of each other. Book 1 discusses conceptual issues pertaining to gender, ... more
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TMF Impact Case Studies 2008-2012

Dar-es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2012), 11 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2012), 273 pp.
"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more
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Mobilfunk und Modernisierung in Ostafrika: Adoption und Diffusion einer Kommunikationstechnologie

Michael Waltinger
Stuttgart: Edition 451 (2012), 147 pp.
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Tanzania Media Fund: Strategic Plan 2012-2015

Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) (2012), 35 pp.
"The TMF Strategic Plan for 2012 – 2015 provides the background, objectives and approach of TMF’s work in its second phase. Lessons from the pilot phase (2008 – 2012) have led to changes in TMF’s grant strategy, but the objective remains the same: to increase the quantity and quality of inve ... more