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Token Transformation? A Critical Political Economy of the Media Analysis of Ownership and Content Diversity in South Africa's Print Media

Prinola Govenden

Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand (2019), 304 pp.

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The Impact of Social Media in Conserving African Languages Amongst Youth in Limpopo Province

Edgar Julius Malatji

University of Limpopo, Doctoral Thesis (2019), xviii, 286 pp.

"This study focuses on the impact of social media towards conserving African languages, particularly Sepedi, Tshivenda and Xitsonga. Social media are given attention to explore their impact in conserving African languages amongst youth. Youth is a suitable group to focus on as they are the future an ... d are thus expected to carry their African languages and pass them on to succeeding generations. This exercise should be done to ensure that African languages should not face extinction in the future. Generally, youth are constant users of social media platforms, hence it is cardinal to investigate their language-usage patterns on social media platforms. The majority of the African youth in South Africa use either one or more of the nine (9) indigenous African languages that are official, namely, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sepedi, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. Therefore, one would expect speakers of these indigenous African languages to effectively use them on social media, particularly, Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp. African language heritage is undoubtedly a valuable resource, however, it needs state resources to develop it further and establish it as a core economic driver on various media platforms. The study employs exploratory and descriptive designs. These designs are appropriate for this study because it permits data to be collected through observations, focus group interviews and questionnaires. Focus group interviews, observations, and questionnaires were used to collect data. Focus group is a data-collection tool for understanding people’s behaviour and attitudes. The researcher moderated three focus groups. One hundred (100) questionnaires were distributed to the participants in this study. These tools are apt for the data-collection process in this study because they assist to discover factors that influence opinions, attitudes, and behaviours. Social media have great potential to conserve the African languages but the speakers of these languages should play a cardinal role in this process. Majority of the youth do not prefer to use the African languages on social media. Conversations on both Facebook and Twitter are dominated by English as youth prefer it ahead of Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga. In contrast, youth prefer to use the African languages on WhatsApp because they know their contacts. However, code-switching is used a lot by youth on social media. Despite the fact that Sepedi, Tshivenda, and Xitsonga are not mostly used on Facebook and Twitter they remain relevant and useful amongst their speakers on a daily basis. Nevertheless, there is a need to develop the African languages based social media sites to stimulate their usage on these platforms. Additionally, these languages should be developed to fit the needs of social media." (Abstract) more

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Social Media Consumption in Kenya: Trends and Practices

United States International University-Africa;Social Media Lab Africa (SIMElab) (2019), 73 pp.

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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University;ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.

"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more

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The Fact-Checking Preferences of Africacheck.org's Audiences in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa

Anim van Wyk

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 18 pp.

"Africa Check, the continent’s first independent fact-Checking organisation of which I was chief editor until July 2019, has itself expanded exponentially. The organisation –a non-profit mainly funded by large foundations– launched in 2012 in South Africa with a junior researcher and part-time ... more

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The relationship between influential actors’ language and violence: A Kenyan case study using artificial intelligence

Chris Mahony, Eduardo Albrecht, Murat Sensoy

London; Oxford: Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development (2019), 79 pp.

"Scholarly work addressing the drivers of violent conflict predominantly focus on macro-level factors, often surrounding social group-specific grievances relating to access to power, justice, security, services, land, and resources. Recent work identifies these factors of risk and their heightened r ... more

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Mission und Kommunikation: Verflechtungsgeschichtliche Perspektiven auf Missionsgeschichte im kolonialen Zeitalter

Richard Hölzl

Interkulturelle Theologie: Zeitschrift für Missionswissenschaft, volume 45, issue 2-3 (2019), pp. 166-187

"In diesem Beitrag argumentiere ich, dass für eine Verflechtungsgeschichte von Mission seit dem 19. Jahrhundert eine medien- und kommunikationstheoretische Dimension unerlässlich ist: Mission war nicht nur eine historische Agentur, um Akteur*innen in Bewegungen zu setzen, als Reisende und Migriere ... more

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African Media Barometer: Madagascar 2019

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 54, 56 pp.

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Developing Independent Media Associations in Ethiopia

Washington, DC: Mersa Media Institute (2019), 41 pp.

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Futuros Criativos: Economia e Criatividade em Angola, Moçambique e Timor-Leste

Empreza Di’ak, Marta Lança, Orlando Garcia, Sara Almeida, Sara Moreira, Vanessa Rodrigues

Lisboa: ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2019), 231 pp.

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Removing Barriers to ICT Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 7 pp.

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Promoting Best Practice Among Activists for More Effective Collaboration in Digital Rights Litigation in Kenya

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 4 pp.

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Annual Report 2018/2019

Johannesburg: Media Development & Diversity Agency (MDDA) (2019), 136 pp.

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Pooling Aid Sector Demand for Digital Public Goods: Lessons from Sizing Mobile Channel Demand in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital Impact Alliance (dial);Altai Consulting (2019), 38 pp.

"We started by performing fieldwork in five countries, covering the four main SSA regions: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Ghana, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda. We then conducted 116 interviews across 78 organizations, covering the overall ecosystem: mobile network operators (MNOs), aggreg ... more

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Women and Puppetry: Critical and Historical Investigations

Alissa Mello, Claudia Orenstein, Cariad Astles (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), 222 pp.

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Public participation and social accountability in Kenyan counties: A pilot study using interactive radio in Siaya

Sharath Srinivasan, Stephanie Diepeveen, Khadija Mohammed, Edgar Otieno

Nairobi; Cambridge: Africa's Voices Foundation;Urban Institute (2019), 34 pp.

"[...] this pilot study in Siaya County sought to assess what makes for more effective public participation in Kenya. In contributing to a timely policy concern about how to best meet the imperatives/aspirations of devolution, it sought also to address the limited empirical evidence in scholarship a ... more

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An Investigation into State Suppression of Freedom of Expression in Lesotho

Ntsoareleng Koroloso, Tawanda Mukurunge, Takura Bhila

IJCIRAS, volume 2, issue 2 (2019), pp. 75-82

"The constitution of Lesotho gives assurance to freedom of expression which is supposed to protect the rights of journalists in the day to day dispensation of their duties. The situation on the ground however shows the exact opposite. Recent history can show assassination attempts on practicing jour ... more

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Motsutsana ndi zovuta zonse = Against all odds. A participatory film project in Dowa, Malawi. Facilitator's guide

Steps;Social Mobilization for Transformation (SMOT) (2019), 11 pp.

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Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
Inspiring Practice

Anya Schiffrin

New York: Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) (2019), 180 pp.

"Three years after writing the report Publishing for Peanuts, in which we surveyed 35 media startups mostly from the Global South, we decided to go back and see how the outlets had fared. Our area of interest in 2015 was small-to-medium size independent media outlets with a track record of consisten ... more

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Publics in Africa in a Digital Age

Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 13, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-213

Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South Inspiring Practice

Fighting for Survival: Media Startups in the Global South
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