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China-Africa Media Interactions: Media and Popular Culture Between Business and State Intervention

Journal of African Cultural Studies, volume 29, issue 1 (2017), pp. 1-147

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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
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Veronica Baxter, Katharine E. Low (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.

"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing ... more

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Information Needs and Access to Media Among Sudanese Refugees in Northern Unity State, South Sudan: Findings from a Survey of the Refugee and Humanitarian Communities

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 43 pp.

"In April 2017, Internews conducted a field assessment that investigated access to media and information needs among Sudanese refugees in Yida, Ajuong Thok, and Pamir, a settlement and two refugee camps in the northern part of Unity State, South Sudan. The assessment followed the February 2017 launc ... more

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Formation of Citizenship Through Radio Talk Participation in Kenya

Joyce Omwoha

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 181-194

"This article aims at investigating the relationship between the concept of mediated citizenship and participation through radio talk deliberation. It intends to offer an analysis of the content mediated through public discourses by determining the way in which participants draw their identities thr ... more

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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
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Mel Bunce, Suzanne Franks, Chris Paterson (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.

"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp ... more

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Audience and Media Use Research: An International Perspective. Report

René Grossenbacher, Sonja Glaab-Seuken, Christian Stumm, Jesse Raymond Bächler

Bundesamt für Kommunikation (Swiss Federal Office of Communications);Publicom (2017), 121 pp.

"Currency research organisations, i.e. organisations conducting research into media use, whose results constitute a nationally valid standard (“currency”) for the advertising business, are of prime importance for developed media systems. In 2017, the global advertising market will reach a volume ... more

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“Preaching to the Converted”: Teaching Calvinistic Media Ethics in the Apartheid Era

Arnold S. De Beer

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 31, issue 1 (2017), pp. 82-99

"The purpose of this article is to shed light on a Christian Reformed version of media ethics, more particularly one that was applied for just more than half a century (1960–2014) during the apartheid era and thereafter at the Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (PUCHE), now No ... more

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The ghost in the news room: The legacy of Kenya’s 2007 post-election violence and the constraints on journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election

Lisa Weighton, Patrick McCurdy

Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 11, issue 4 (2017), pp. 649-669

"Domestic journalists covering Kenya’s 2013 General Election worked in an exceptionally challenging media environment; one which was significantly shaped by the 2007 election and post-election violence (PEV). Rooted in literature on peace journalism (PJ), we examine how the PEV of Kenya’s 2007 p ... more

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The Audience-Centred Approach to Media Policymaking: A Critical Analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a Participatory Process of Review

Julie Reid

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 74-99

"This article presents and makes a case for the audience-Centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this discussion within the South African revision of the regulatory mechanism for the press. In South Africa the press accountability mechanism, the Press Council of South Afric ... more

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Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
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Dafna Lemish, Maya Götz (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom;International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media (2017), 254 pp.

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Synthesising Media, Politics and Foreign Intervention: An Examination Into Malawi’s Media System Transformation

Suzanne Temwa Harris

Hong Kong Baptist University, Doctoral Thesis (2017), vi, 202 pp.

"The conventional method for studying media systems has been to analyse the relationship between media and politics, based on Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) seminal research Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. Their approach automatically places the nation-state as the key un ... more

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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South

Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams, Patricia B. Arinto (eds.)

Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds;Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.

"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin ... more

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Plan national de communication du secteur eau, assainissement et hygiene

Ministère de l' Eau, de l' Energie et des Hydrocarbures (2017), 45 pp.

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Country Reports 2017

Celia Collins (ed.)

Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.

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Research Report: Regulatory Framework for Community Broadcasting

Johannesburg: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) (2017), 109 pp.

"There are currently 280 community broadcasting services (275 community sound and 5 community television services). According to AC Nielsen and All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) data, community broadcasting services collectively take up an audience share of 6.3 million people in South Africa. How ... more

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Spaces of Resistance in the De-Westernization of Journalism Curricula Narrative in Post-1994 South Africa

Bevelyn Dube, Lizette Rabe

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-433

"Since 1994, the call to de-westernize journalism education and training curricula has been a major narrative in South Africa’s transformation discourses. Journalism education and training institutions have responded to this call by holding conferences, colloquia, seminars and symposia to try and ... more

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Networks of Communication in South Africa: New Media, New Technologies

R. Sooryamoorthy

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), xii, 288 pp.

"R. Sooryamoorthy examines the development of communication patterns, social contacts and networks in South Africa. Based on pioneering quantitative and qualitative data, he analyses trends in changing media use in Africa, showing the development of the use of new media for communication by South Af ... more

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The Ethiopian Journalist: Loyalist and Change Agent

Terje Skjerdal

Addis Abeba: [author] (2017), 27 pp.

"The report is based on interviews with 350 journalists from all parts of the Ethiopian media. The study detects some important changes which have occurred in the Ethiopian journalist fraternity recently. In just a few years, the local journalist population has become one of the most educated in the ... more

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Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

Daniela Merolla, Mark Turin (eds.)

Open Book Publishers (2017), 149 pp.

"In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary her ... more

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Music Activists: A Participatory Film Project. Facilitator's Guide

Musola C. Kaseketi, John Chiti, Elaine Maane

Cape Town; Livingstone: Steps;Vilole Images Productions (2017), 12 pp.

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing Inspiring Practice

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising" Top Insights

Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences Top Insights

Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Inspiring Practice

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
Top Insights

Beyond the Stereotypes? Images of Boys and Girls, and Their Consequences
Top Insights