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Digitalization & Gender Norms: Learnings from CARE's Digital Pilot for VSLA Members in Rwanda & Uganda

Eric Kaduru, Julia Arnold
Care (2024), 10 pp.
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Sauti za Waandishi: Journalists’ voices. A survey of Tanzanian media practitioners

Dar es Salaam: Twaweza East Africa (2024), 20 pp.
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Media activism, artivism and the fight against marginalisation in the Global South: South-to-South communication

Andrea Medrado, Isabella Rega
New York: Routledge (2023), 186 pp.
"This book analyses a South-to-South connection between media activists and artivists – artists who are activists – in the Global South. The authors, Andrea Medrado and Isabella Rega, emphasise the urgent need to engage in South-to-South dialogues in order to create more sustainable connections ... more
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Demand of and Access to Health Messages Through Mass Media in the Rural Community of Eastern Ethiopia: A Mixed Method Study

Bushra Aliyi, Yadeta Dassie, Alemayehu Deressa et al.
Risk Management and Healthcare, issue 16 (2023), pp. 1859-1874
"Background: The demand for health-related information has increased dramatically in recent years. Media is crucial in reaching health messages to audiences, especially those who are distant and rural. Therefore, the study aimed to assess demands, access, and factors associated with access to health ... more
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Digital platforms as socio-cultural artifacts: Developing digital methods for cultural research

Stefania Vicari, Daniel Kirby
Information, Communication & Society, volume 26, issue 9 (2023), pp. 1733-1755
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Going Upstream: A Holistic Approach to Ending Sexual Harassment Against Journalists

London: Article 19; Protecting Rights, Openness and Transparency Enhancing Civic Transformation (PROTECT) (2023), 9 pp.
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‘It is Guiding Us to Protect Ourselves’: A Qualitative Investigation Into Why Young People Engage with a Mass-Media HIV Education Campaign

Venetia Baker, Sarah Mulwa, Sophie Sarrassat, David Khanyile, Simon Cousens, Cherie Cawood, Isolde Birdthistle
Culture, Health & Sexuality, volume 25, issue 7 (2023), pp. 803-817
"This study explores how and why young people engage with MTV Shuga, a popular mass media campaign in South Africa, to understand what makes effective HIV edutainment. Young MTV Shuga viewers from the Eastern Cape, South Africa and their parents participated in remote individual interviews and focus ... more
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Transnational Communication and Identity Construction in Diaspora: A Comparative Analysis of Four Diaspora Communities from the Horn of Africa

Merga Yonas Bula
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"The study was sparked by the absence of literature on transnational masspersonal communication (tmc) of 'Eritrean', 'Ethiopian', Oromo, and Somali diaspora communities. To bridge this theoretical gap, an empirical study was conducted at meso-level based on three questions: (a) what topics do people ... more
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A Decolonial Analysis of the Cyberbullying of South African Women Journalists

Glenda Daniels
In: Decolonising Journalism Education in South Africa: Critical Perspectives
Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi, Zubeida Jaffer, Mvuso Ponono (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 135-148
"At the heart of decolonial theory is the love for woman, particularly black woman, as the most oppressed of political categories in the old colonial structures of race, class and gender hierarchy. This chapter uses decolonial theory, specifically Chela Sandoval’s concept of ‘decolonial love’ ... more
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The Palgrave Handbook of Religion, Peacebuilding, and Development in Africa
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Susan M. Kilonzo, Ezra Chitando, Joram Tarusarira (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxi, 832 pp.
"This Handbook explores the ways in which religion among the African people has been applied in situations of conflict and violence to contribute to sustainable peace and development. It analyzes how peacebuilding inspired and enabled by religion serves as the foundation for sustainable development ... more
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Mapping the Information Landscapes of Sudanese Youth: Implications for Media Literacy Education

Abubakar Abdelbagi, Iona Literat
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 4755-4777
"Seeking to expand the Western-centric scope of media literacy research, this article shines the spotlight on Sudan as a critically underexplored context. Using participatory mapping and in-depth interviews, our research foregrounds urban Sudanese youths’ everyday informational resources and pract ... more
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State of the Media Report in 2022

Mogadishu: National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) (2023), 22 pp.
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The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology
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Elisabetta Costa, Patricia G. Lange, Nell Haynes, Jolynna Sinanan (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxv, 617 pp.
"Comprising 41 chapters by a team of international contributors, the companion is divided into three parts: histories; approaches; thematic considerations. The chapters offer wide-ranging explorations of how forms of mediation influence communication, social relationships, cultural practices, partic ... more
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Vibrant Information Barometer (VIBE): South Sudan

IREX; Association for Media Development in South Sudan (AMDISS); Sustainable Independent Media Activity (SIMA) (2023), 47 pp.
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Digital Citizenship in Africa: Technologies of Agency and Repression

Tony Roberts, Tanja Bosch (eds.)
London et al.: Zed Books (2023), xxi, 234 pp.
"With contributions from scholars across the continent, Digital Citizenship in Africa illustrates how citizens have been using VPNs, encryption, and privacy-protecting browsers to resist limits on their rights to privacy and political speech. This book dramatically expands our understanding of the v ... more
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Os Angolanos rejeitam as restrições governamentais sobre o direito à informação

Asafika Mpako, Carlos Pacatolo
Afrobarometer (2023), 11 pp.
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Transition from analogue to digital terrestrial television broadcasting

Geneva: ITU (2023), 239 pp.
"The purpose of this Report is to help the countries that are in the process of migrating from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting. The Report examines the reasons why this is happening and the technologies involved. It provides an overview of digital terrestrial sound and television broadc ... more
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Understanding African journalistic agency in China–Africa media interactions: The case of Kenya

Hangwei Li
International Communication Gazette, volume 85, issue 1 (2023), pp. 32-47
"Drawing on field observations and extensive interviews, this study investigates how Kenyan media practitioners exercise their agency when interacting with Chinese stakeholders. When dealing with Chinese stakeholders or China-related stories, Kenyan media practitioners developed three strategies to ... more
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Fairwork Kenya Ratings 2023: The Promise and Peril of Platform Work in the Kenyan Platform Economy

Oxford; Berlin: Fairwork (2023), 39 pp.
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Serie "Country Queen" auf Arte: Die Geister von Tsilanga

Jörg Häntzschel
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 21. Juni (2023)
"Die kenianische, auch mit deutschem Geld produzierte Serie "Country Queen" läuft auf Arte und weltweit auf Netflix. Sie ist raffiniert erzählt - und ein Glücksfall für das globale Lagerfeuer." (Einleitung)