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Mobile Media Services at Sub-Saharan African Newspapers: A Guide to Implementing Mobile News and Mobile Business
Key Guides
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 81 pp.
"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af
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"Betrachtet man die Beliebtheit und den Hörerzuspruch für Loke Pol, kann man von einem Erfolg des Programmes sprechen. Auch wenn einige Aspekte des Senders Mega FM wie die quasi-Monopolposition die Rezeption des Programmes begünstigen, zählt Loke Pol sowohl in den Augen der Produzenten, angesich
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Marketing on the Airwaves: Marketing Information Service (MIS) and Radio
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 63 pp.
"Farmers require varying marketing information, depending on their location, local market conditions, crops, production activities, and cultural practices. Radio has the capacity to reach a large audience, and can provide an integrated approach to market information, incorporating all these elements
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Commercial Rural Radio Program: The Emerging Effective Means to Improving Rural Livelihoods. The Case of INUKA
Dodoma (TZ): Rural Livelihood Development Company (RLDC); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) (2011), 32 pp.
"INUKA’s primary objective was to address the interests and needs of the rural producers in the CC. Capacity building of radio staff proved to be an essential element to overcome the shortage of tailored expertise on agriculture and rural related radio programming and marketing. Listeners gave a p
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Community Theatre and AIDS
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xii, 179 pp.
"Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comp
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Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Deep Insights
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), xv, 320 pp.
"Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low l
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Media and Post-Election Violence in Kenya
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 626-654
Kenya
Nairobi; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP); Open Society Media Program (OSMP) (2011), xi, 126 pp.
"Kenya’s liberalisation of the airwaves since the mind-1990s has resulted in the transformation of broadcasting with numerous stations now serving as a platform for information and public debate. This has promoted a culture of participation in the democratic process, and has impacted positively to
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A New Frontier, an Old Landscape: A Report for the Ford Foundation About the Impact of Digital Communications on Media and Communications, and on Human Rights
London: Global Partners (2011), 270 pp.
Examines the impact that the rise of digital communications is having on the media, and on human rights activism. The report goes on to explore the main policy issues which must be addressed at the national and international levels to shape an enabling environment. The report combines global level a
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Journalists and the Rule of Law
Nairobi: International Commission of Jurists, Kenya Section; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), iv, 102 pp.
"The book is particularly commendable for providing a one-stop for relevant sections of media laws and for providing essential legal tips including explanations of various legal terms. Its treatment of ethical issues in media practice is a plus. The book strikes a commendable balance of Law and Ethi
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Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age: Global Industries and New Audiences
New York: Peter Lang (2011), xiii, 305 pp.
Can it Tweet its Way to Democracy? The Promise of Participatory Media in Africa
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 103 pp.
Offers a policy-focused overview of the state of online political participatory media in Tunisia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Uganda.
Investigate Without Peril: How to Support Investigative Journalism in East Africa
U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre; Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) (2011), 4 pp.
"The political and economic environment in some regions of the world present specific challenges for investigative journalists: countries that score low on governance and transparency present particular risks and underline the need to build investigative journalism capacity. This Brief analyses the
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.
"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in
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Tanzanian Media Environment: Current Access, Potential for Growth and Strategies for Information Dissemination
Washington, DC: InterMedia (2011), 49 pp.
"This report uses AudienceScapes data from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania to describe how people of different social groups gather, share and access information through mass media. We also focus on whether the presence of mobile phones can further augment information dissemination us
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Beyond ICT4D: New Media Research in Uganda
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2011), 150 pp.
"Conducted in 2009 by a group of five Masters in New Media (humanities) students from the University of Amsterdam under the supervision of Geert Lovink the research examines both the role and implementation of ICTs in Uganda, covering a wide range of subcultures and projects, including internet cafe
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The State of Media Freedom in Africa
African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 2 (2011), pp. 221-388
Journalists or Activists? Self-Identity in the Ethiopian Diaspora Online Community
Journalism, volume 12, issue 6 (2011), pp. 727-744
"This study investigates the role of the diaspora online media as stakeholders in the transnational Ethiopian media landscape. Through content analysis of selected websites and interviews with editors, the research discusses how the sites relate to recognized journalistic ideals and how the editors
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