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Interrogating the Role of Zimbabwe's Print Media in Environmental Reporting

Lisborn Webster Mandizvidza
University of South Africa (2018), ix, 263 pp.
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Media Ownership Monitor Tanzania

Reporters Without Borders; Media Council of Tanzania (2018), 739 pp.
"Only a few media companies have a predominant market position and thus a potentially high influence on public opinion in Tanzania. Whereas the regulatory framework should in theory safeguard media pluralism and prevent media concentration, it shows considerable gaps in practice. Moreover, the legal ... more
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How Africa Tweets 2018

London et al.: Portland (2018), 22 pp.
"Our study is the first to identify and analyse who is shaping African Twitter conversations during elections over the past year. The study found that 53 per cent of the leading voices on Twitter around ten elections on the continent during the past year came from outside the country in which the el ... more
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How Influential Are Chinese Media in Africa? An Audience Analysis in Kenya and South Africa

Herman Wasserman, Dani Madrid-Morales
International Journal of Communication, volume 12 (2018), pp. 2212-2231
"This article uses data from seven focus groups with media and communication university students in Kenya and South Africa to explore the efficacy of Chinese-mediated public diplomacy. We show that Chinese media have little impact on students’ information habits, demonstrate that attitudes toward ... more
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Perspectives on Political Communication in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo, Beschara Karam (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp.
"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza ... more
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Can the TV Makeover Format of Edutainment Lead to Widespread Changes in Farmer Behaviour and Influence Innovation Systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya

Graham Clarkson, Chris Garforth, Peter Dorward, George Mose, Carlos Barahona, Francisco Areal, MacKenzie Dove
Land Use Policy, volume 76 (2018), pp. 338-351
"Edutainment, the combination of education with entertainment through various media such as television, radio, mobile phone applications and games, is increasingly being used as an approach to stimulate innovation and increase agricultural productivity amongst smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Afri ... more
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African Language Digital Media and Communication

Abiodun Salawu (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 236 pp.
"This book analyses the online presence of African language media. The chapters in the book focus on the speed, structure, content, navigation and interactivity, operations and performance, and audience of the online media. They also pay particular attention to how social media such as Facebook, Twi ... more
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Representations of Africa in African Media: The Case of the Darfur Violence

African Affairs, volume 117, issue 466 (2018), pp. 44-61
"This article examines representation of the conflict in Darfur by the media in Kenya, South Africa, Egypt and Rwanda. It analyses 850 newspaper articles published from 2003 to 2008 and journalist interviews from Kenya and South Africa. Using Mbembe’s articulation of ‘meaningful acts’ and Bour ... more
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Beyond Watchdog Journalism: Media and Social Accountability
Deep Insights

Grahamstown: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies; Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) (2018), 67 pp.
"The following report is an exploratory case study analysis of social accountability monitoring of the Eastern Cape Department of Education by the Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM) and mainstream media in the Eastern Cape. It provides in-depth analysis of the education programme’s work ... more
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Examining diffusion to understand the how of SASA!, a violence against women and HIV prevention intervention in Uganda

Elizabeth Starmann, Lori Heise, Nambusi Kyegombe et al.
BMC Public Health, volume 18, issue 616 (2018), 20 pp.
"This paper is based on a qualitative study of couples living in SASA communities and secondary analysis of endline quantitative data collected as part of a cluster randomised control trial designed to evaluate the impact of the SASA! intervention. The primary trial was conducted in eight communitie ... more
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Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice

Sandra Ristovska, Monroe Price (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xvii, 320 pp.
"Visual Imagery and Human Rights Practice examines the interplay between images and human rights, addressing how, when, and to what ends visuals are becoming a more central means through which human rights claims receive recognition and restitution. The collection argues that accounting for how imag ... more
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Bridging Theory and Practice in Entertainment Education: An Assessment of the Conceptualization and Design of Tsha Tsha in South Africa

Blessing Makwambeni, Abiodun Salawu
Sage Open, issue January-March (2018), 12 pp.
"The entertainment–education (E-E) strategy in development communication has been widely described as the panacea to development challenges in Africa. However, despite its growing application on the continent, E-E is still argued to be inhibited from contributing meaningfully toward development ef ... more
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Citizen Journalism Guidelines on Electoral Reporting in Zimbabwe

Admire Mare, Henrik Keith, Simbiso Marimbe, Rashweat Mukundu
International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 54 pp.
"The purpose of this manual is to familiarise citizen journalists with the core issues of election reporting including ethics, safety and security, fake news, hate speech and the broader issues around the electoral system in Zimbabwe. It also focuses on gender and the media, photography, live-stream ... more
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Mapping the Ethiopian Media

Wazema Radio (2018), 16 pp.
"In a nutshell, the nascent print media of Ethiopia is in danger of a complete collapse. This is not the effect of the digital tsunami; it is primarily because of unprofessionalism and authoritarianism. Undoubtedly, the spread of mobile telephones and the Internet further endangers their existence. ... more
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Quality of News Content in Two Radio Stations in Addis Ababa: Case Study of Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1

Berhanu Tessema
Addis Ababa: Addis Ababa University, Master Thesis (2018), vii, 57 pp.
"My research focuses on two FM radio stations in Ethiopian capital-Abay FM 102.9 and Bisrat FM 101.1 in serving their audiences by providing content deliveries in news writing and reporting. The study based on what listeners of the mushrooming FM radio stations complaints on lacking content from the ... more
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Creating Mobile Health Solutions for Behaviour Change: A Study of Eight Services in the MNutrition Initiative Portfolio

Kim Viljoen, Tobias Wacker
London: GSMA; Altai Consulting (2018), 50 pp.
"The GSMA mHealth programme, under the mNutrition Initiative funded by UK aid (the UK Department for International Development, DFID), has been working with mobile network operators (MNOs) and other mobile and health sector stakeholders to support the launch and scale of mobile health (mHealth) valu ... more
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Journalism Education and Training in Malawi: A Case for a National Policy

Levi Zeleza Manda, Noel Drake Kufaine
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2018), pp. 35-53
"[...] despite the welcome increase in the number of journalism and communication qualifications offered by public and private journalism training colleges in Malawi, the quality of the output is still lackluster. This is overwhelmingly because practical skills courses are taught inadequately, hapha ... more
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Sounding Islam: Voice, Media, and Sonic Atmospheres in an Indian Ocean World

Patrick Eisenlohr
Oakland, California: University of California Press (2018), xi, 174 pp.
"Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, P ... more
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The Professional Election Reporter: Guidelines for Journalists Covering Elections in Zimbabwe

Henrik Keith Hansen, Vincent Kahiya, Admire Mare, Simbiso Marimbe
International Media Support (IMS); Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) (2018), 48 pp.
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The State of ICT in In South Africa

Alison Gillwald, Onkokame Mothobi, Broc Rademan
Research ICT Africa (2018), 123 pp.