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Voice or Chatter? Country Overview South Africa

Kathleen Diga
IT for Change (2017), 22 pp.
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End of an Era and the Debacle of Cross-Border Media Building Projects in Africa

Sam Phiri
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 401-414
"In the 1990s following the collapse of the Berlin Wall in Germany and the death of Apartheid in South Africa, several cross-national initiatives were undertaken in Africa to strengthen the role of the media in nascent democracies. Some 30 years later, several of these initiatives are dead while the ... more
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Listening Groups Module South Sudan. Part I: Context, Part II: Case Studies

Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2017), 39 pp.
"The Listening Groups Module contains the collective knowledge of the Internews South Sudan team gained over three years’ experience managing more than 700 Listening Groups across the country [...] “Part I. Context” describes the information and media landscape in South Sudan, and the value of ... more
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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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Safeguarding Civil Society: Assessing Internet Freedom and the Digital Resilience of Civil Society in East Africa

Small Media; CIPESA; Defend Defeners; CIPIT (2017), 127 pp.
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The Need and the Opportunities for Sustainability: The Case of Local Radio Stations in Tanzania

Christoph Spurk, Filip Dingerkus
Journal of Media Business Studies, volume 14, issue 1 (2017), pp. 38-59
"Local radio stations have mushroomed in Africa, including Tanzania, partly due to increased support from international donors. However, research results show that the lack of economic viability is a major constraint for local radio stations. They can hardly generate sufficient revenues from adverti ... more
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Strengthening Kenyan Media: Exploring a Path Towards Journalism in the Public Interest

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Omidyar Network (2017), 33 pp.
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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)
London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.
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Radio Listenership Among Women in Kipkelion West Sub-County, Kericho County

Koech Fidelice Chepng'Etich
Nairobi: University of Nairobi, Master Thesis (2017), xii, 77 pp.
"The study sought to find out radio listenership among women in Kipkelion West Sub-County, to establish the choice of radio programs and stations that interests the women, to assess the preference of radio to other mass communication media among women and to find out the gratifications women seek to ... more
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Free Basics in Real Life: Six Case Studies on Facebook’s Internet “on Ramp” Initiative from Africa, Asia and Latin America

Amsterdam: Global Voices (2017), 35 pp.
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Levi Zeleza Manda, Nelson Nyirenda, Chimwemwe Tsitsi
Worlds of Journalism Study (2017), 7 pp.
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Structural Working Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists Reporting on Democratisation Conflicts

Judith Lohner, Irene Neverla, Sandra Banjac
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 21 pp.
"The structural conditions of journalism are shaped by legacies of the past (marked by non-democratic regimes and sometimes colonial rule) and persisting power structures. The state and powerful political actors are perceived to play an important role in the media sector, mirrored in different forms ... more
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Media Development Policy

Lusaka: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services (2017), vii, 16 pp.
"I am proud to present the first ever Media Development Policy. This is the first time in the history of the country that Government has come up with a policy that sets out its vision and mission to promote freedom of expression by guaranteeing press freedom. The Policy is anchored on four main pill ... more
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"The Woman You Want to Be": The Changing Face of Fairlady Magazine, 1985–2005

Aimee Carelse, Martha Evans
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 115-140
"Feminine identity has always been complicated by race and class in South Africa. The history of beauty pageants, like sporting contests, demonstrates the extent to which culture and contemporary politics intertwine. Examining the cover model choices of women’s magazines offers a fruitful means of ... more
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Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives

Amiso M. George, Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo (eds.)
New York: Wiley (2017), xxix, 376 pp.
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Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media
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Anya Schiffrin, Beatrice Santa-Wood, Susanna De Martino, Ellen Hume, Nicole Pope
Open Society Foundations (2017), 144 pp.
"Journalists in many countries are experimenting with how to build trust and engage with audiences, and our report examines their efforts. In our study we profile organizations that are working to build bridges with their readers, viewers and listeners and deliver relevant news to local audiences. W ... more
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Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding Among the Youth: A Case Study of Pamoja FM in Kibra, Kenya

Mwanzia Tabitha Nzula
Nairobi: University of Nairobi, Master Thesis (2017), xi, 64 pp.
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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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Albino: The Desperate Plight of the Tanzanian Albinos

Ana Palacios
North Salema, NY: Vision Project (2017), 18 pp.