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Citoyenneté numérique: Ce que l’Afrique prépare. Bénin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, République démocratique du Congo, Ghana, Madagascar, Sénégal

Cédric Kalonji, Philippe Couve, Julien Le Bot
Paris: CFI Coopération Médias (2016), 39 pp.
"L’approfondissement des pratiques démocratiques dans les pays étudiés passe non seulement par le renforcement des capacités des médias et des journalistes, pour qu’ils puissent s’emparer pleinement des outils numériques, mais aussi par la montée en puissance d’un grand nombre de nouv ... more
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Medien im Krieg - Krieg in den Medien

Jörg Becker
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2016), ix, 404 pp.
"Das Thema Medien und Krieg wird in diesem Buch aus einer vierfachen Perspektive heraus behandelt. Es geht zum einen um die Frage nach der Berichterstattung über Kriege, zum zweiten um die Rolle von Medien im Krieg, drittens geht es darum, welche strukturellen Bedingungen von Krieg und Gesellschaft ... more
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Guidelines for Professional Election Reporting: Guidelines for Journalists Covering the Somalia Elections 2016

International Media Support (IMS); Fojo Media Institute (2016), 27 pp.
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Constitution-Making, Media, and the Politics of Participation in Somalia

Nicole Stremlau
African Affairs, volume 115, issue 459 (2016), pp. 225-245
"The United Nations-led constitution-making process, while highly controversial, has sought to create an opening to help Somalia transition to a new phase in its political development. This article considers the structural features, problems, and opportunities of the process, particularly in the con ... more
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Zimbabwe’s State-Controlled Public Media and the Mediation of the 1980s Genocide 30 Years On

Shepherd Mpofu
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 2 (2016), pp. 145-165
"Since the end of genocide in 1987 Zimbabwe has remained a zone of ‘conflicts’, and the enduring debates surrounding this genocide, especially in public-owned but state-Controlled media, call for critical attention. Three years after independence, in 1980, Zimbabwe was plunged into a genocide na ... more
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Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions: Worldwide Perspectives
Deep Insights

Kristin Skare Orgeret, William Tayeebwa (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom; UNESCO Chair on Freedom of Expression, Media Development and Global Policy (2016), 202 pp.
"The aim of the present book is to provide both empirical and theoretical input to the discussions of the role of journalism and media in conflict and post-conflict situations and in the often rather muddy waters between them. Together, the contributions to this book from different parts of the worl ... more
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Global Media and National Policies: The Return of the State

Terry Flew, Petros Iosifidis, Jeanette Steemers (eds.)
Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 228 pp.
"Conventional wisdom views globalization as a process that heralds the diminishing role or even 'death' of the state and the rise of transnational media and transnational consumption. Global Media and National Policies questions those assumptions and shows not only that the nation-state never left b ... more
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Social Inequalities, Media, and Communication: Theory and Roots

Jan Servaes, Toks Oyedemi (eds.)
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2016), xxxix, 272 pp.
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Public Service Media Initiatives in the Global South

Anis Rahman, Gregory Ferrell Lowe (eds.)
Burnaby: Simon Fraser University Library (2016), xiii, 131 pp.
"While acknowledging the significant contributions of the public service broadcasting heritage in the Global North in efforts to establish such provision in the Global South, the contributors explain why simple imitation is unlikely to ever work well enough across such a diverse range of countries a ... more
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Eritrea: From Liberation to Oppression

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2016), 167 pp.
"This publication will contribute to ensuring that the breadth of human rights violations in Eritrea becomes known, and that the issue of human trafficking migrates more strongly upwards into the public eye." (Back cover)
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Freedom on the Net 2016. Silencing the Messenger: Communication Apps Under Pressure
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Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Adrian Shahbaz, Madeline Earp (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2016), 1021 pp.
"Internet freedom has declined for the sixth consecutive year, with more governments than ever before targeting social media and communication apps as a means of halting the rapid dissemination of information, particularly during antigovernment protests. Public-facing social media platforms like Fac ... more
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State Interference, Para-Politics and Editorial Control: The Political Economy of ‘Mirrorgate’ in Zimbabwe

Oswelled Ureke
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 17-34
"This article explores the events leading to the closure of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG) in 2007. It narrates how the state in Zimbabwe, through its intelligence arm, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), covertly took over the privately owned newspaper stable, publishers of th ... more
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The Truth and Nothing But the Truth: A Re-Affirmation and Re-Evaluation of Undercover Journalism Practices

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, Colin Chasi
African Journalism Studies, volume 37, issue 3 (2016), pp. 107-128
"The role of journalism in contemporary society is highly debated and highly contested all over the world, even more so in the context of young democracies. We note that in societies where journalism faces constant threats of tighter government control and where even the most innocuous piece of repo ... more
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Religion and Global Media: Impact of Arabic TV Channels on Lowland Eritrean Youth

Indira S. Mannar, Vijayalakshmi Peddiboyina
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 221-236
"Satellite TV channels from the Middle East started beaming into Eritrea from 1996, and the Eritrean youth are avid consumers of the global messages from across the borders. Following an in-depth interview method as a research technique, using an unstructured, openended questionnaire, the present st ... more
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The Inherent Danger of Hate Speech Legislation: A Case Study from Rwanda and Kenya on the Failure of a Preventative Measure

Andrea Scheffler
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2016), 119 pp.
"Based on the analyses of Rwandan and Kenyan cases, hate speech legislation is not an appropriate tool to prevent harm emanating from hate speech. The empirically verifiable costs of the tool by far outweigh its putative benefits. In Rwanda, opposition politicians are convicted for criticising gover ... more
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Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change

Norbert Wildermuth, Teke Ngomba (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xii, 219 pp.
"This book identifies the strengths and weaknesses of different methodological approaches to research in communication and social change. It examines the methodological opportunities and challenges occasioned by rapid technological affordances and society-wide transformations. This study provides gr ... more
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Soul Buddyz Club Impact Evaluation: An Evaluation of Soul Buddyz Clubs

FPD; G:ENESIS; USAID (2016), 74 slides
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Final Evaluation for ‘Communicating for Peace in South Sudan: A Social and Behaviour Change Communication Initiative’, Bor, Juba and Wau, South Sudan

UNICEF; Search for Common Ground; Forcier Consulting (2016), viii, 54 pp.
"Project locations experienced general improvement with regards to social cohesion and conflict resolution. This was particularly the case in Wau, where results were encouraging. In contrast, Bor continued to feature more negative results than other project locations, although the county saw importa ... more
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Journalists in Kenya

Levi Obonyo, Hesbon Hansen Owilla
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 8 pp.
"It is fairly informative how journalists view their roles in the Kenyan society. Kenyan journalists found it most important to report things the way they are, to educate the audience and to promote tolerance and diversity. The relevance of these roles was fairly undisputed among the interviewed jou ... more
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Health Communication in the Changing Media Landscape: Perspectives from Developing Countries
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Ravindra Kumar Vemula, SubbaRao M. Gavaravarapu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), xxv, 238 pp.
"This book advances new understandings of how technologies have been harnessed to improve the health of populations; whether the technologies really empower those who use information by providing them with a choice of information; how they shape health policy discourses; how the health information r ... more