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Uneven Performances by the Private Press in Ethiopia: An Analysis of 18 Years of Press Freedom

Terje S. Skjerdal, Hallelujah Lule
Journal of Communication & Language Arts, volume 3, issue 1 (2009), pp. 44-59
"It is generally said that an independent press is vital for any democracy. However, the case in many African countries is that the independent or private press is weak and lacks credibility, although its assumed role as a cornerstone of young democracies is repeatedly stressed by commentators and p ... more
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Mapping the Void: A State-By-State Media Assessment Report on South Sudan and Selected Northern States

John Gacie, Richard Mogga, Mac Maika
Consortium on Promoting Freedom of Expression and Civil Society Involvment in Developing Media Legislation in Sudan (2009), 83 pp.
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The Role of the Media in the Upcoming Somaliland Elections: Lessons from Kenya

Nicole Stremlau, Matthew Blanchard, Yusuf Abdi Gabobe, Farhan Ali Ahmed
Oxford; London: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford; Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2009), 45 pp.
"This report explores issues of media policy during post-election violence. We examine the case of Kenya, where 1,133 people were killed after the 2007 elections, to distill lessons for Somaliland’s upcoming elections. There are indications the elections in Somaliland will be highly contentious an ... more
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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)
Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.
"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more
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Doing Digital Media in Africa: Prospects, Promises and Problems

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2009), 117 pp.
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Report on Evaluation of "Community Radio Listening Groups Project"

Khartoum: UNICEF; Nutro Health for Development (NHD) (2009), 298 pp.
"In 2002 the UNICEF in collaboration with the Ministry of Information and Communication ( represented by Sudan Radio & TV Corporation –SRTC) launched a pilot project of Community Radio Listening Groups (CRLGs), designed to reach population in hard to reach areas in the country with messages and de ... more
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Radio Listening Habits Among Rural Audiences: An Ethnographic Study of Kieni West Division in Central Kenya

George W. Gathigi
Ohio University, Doctoral Thesis (2009), xv, 324 pp.
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Media and Identity in Africa

Kimani Njogu, John Middleton (eds.)
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2009), xvii, 333 pp.
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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2009), 231 pp.
"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more
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Public Relations Research in Africa

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 2, issue 3 (2009), pp. 351-473
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Turning Rice Into Pilau: The Art of Video Narration in Tanzania

Matthias Krings
Intermédialités, issue 4 (2009), 32 pp.
"In Tanzania pirated video copies of foreign films are subject to a profound practice of remediation. Video narrators who either perform live simultaneous translations and commentaries on such films in video parlours, or mediatise their interpretations as VHS cassettes and DVDs with Kiswahili voice- ... more
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Youth Engaging with the World: Media Communication and Social Change

Thomas Tufte, Florencia Enghel (eds.)
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2009), 341 pp.
"The Yearbook 2009 focuses on youth as a generation of actors and citizens who are increasingly exposed to and making use of media/ICT for entertainment and informational purposes, for social networking and mobilization, and for knowledge sharing. At the core of this creativity and these innovative ... more
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South Sudan Media Survey: Juba, Wau, Maridi, Panyagor, Yambio and Yei

Nairobi: Consumer Options; Education Development Center (EDC) (2009), 49 pp.
"Radio is the most popular source of information with 98% saying it their source of information. 71% claim that radio is the most important source of information to them and 66% claim that radio is the most reliable source of information. Church is also a strong source of information with 64% claimi ... more
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Change at Hand: Web 2.0 for Development

Holly Ashley, Jon Corbett, Ben Garside, Giacamo Rambaldi (eds.)
London; Wageningen: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) (2009), 136 pp.
"Web 2.0 for development (Web2forDev) is a way of employing web services to intentionally improve information-sharing and collaborative production of content for development. It is about how development actors can relate and connect to other stakeholders, produce and publish their own material, deci ... more
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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2009), xii, 277 pp.
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Communication for Development: A Glimpse at UNDP's Practice

Elizabeth McCall
Oslo: United Nations; UNDP Oslo Governance Centre (2009), 54 pp.
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Rebel Voices and Radio Actors: In Pursuit of Dialogue and Debate in Northern Uganda

Maggie Ibrahim
Development in Practice, volume 19, issue 4-5 (2009), pp. 610-620
"The town of Gulu in northern Uganda stood still as the leader of a then 16-year-old insurgency against the government was heard live through a local government radio station. On 28 December 2002, Joseph Kony called in to Mega FM’s live debate talk show and was heard throughout northern Uganda. Th ... more
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Internationales Handbuch Medien

Hans-Bredow-Institut
Christiane Matzen; Anja Herzog (eds.)
Baden-Baden: Nomos, 28th ed. (2009), 1308 pp.
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Running Radio Selam: Constraints Facing an Ethiopian Peace Radio Project

Tarjei Kidd Olsen
Oslo: University of Oslo, Master Thesis in Peace and Conflict Studies (2009), 143 pp.
"I have primarily looked at how Radio Selam, an Ethiopian peace radio programme run by the local Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY), might have been constrained by four spheres of influence. The spheres I looked at encapsulated certain organizational, individual, economic and politica ... more
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The Power of Communication: Changes and Challenges in African Media

Kristin Skare Orgeret, Helge Rønning (eds.)
Oslo: Oslo Academic Press (2009), 362 pp.
"This book examines how the media in different parts of Africa plays an important role in the continent's political and social processes of change. The perspective of the book is comparative. It contains overviews of the role of communication, as well as case studies, of the situation in individual ... more