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The Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in Ethiopia

Wondwossen Belete, Seyoum Tadesse

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2014), 71 pp.

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A Clash Between Journalistic and Capitalist Values? How Advertisers Meddle in Journalists’ Decisions at the Nation Media Group in Kenya

Jacinta Mwende Maweu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 27-42

"Grounded in the critical political economy of the media tradition, it is argued in the article that, in the highly commercialized media environment in Kenya today, market forces pose the greatest threat to media freedom and responsibility. Through in-depth qualitative interviews of twenty journalis ... more

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Curtailing Corruption: People Power for Accountability and Justice

Shaazka Beyerle

Rienner (2014), vi, 325 pp.

"Campaigns and movements targeting corruption often face decentralized targets rather than an identifiable dictator or external government, and can be found both in undemocratic and democratic systems. Graft and abuse are manifested in a systemic manner rather than a hodgepodge collection of illicit ... more

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The Network Society, Power and the Print Media in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Media Contestation in Durban for Environmental Justice

Llewellyn Leonard

Media, Culture & Society, volume 36, issue 7 (2014), pp. 966-981

"This article is interested in the extent to which various social actors in the Durban network society, such as civil society, corporations and the state, shape public information and perception in their own interests regarding environmental discourse. Empirical evidence presents viewpoints from key ... more

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Uses and Gratifications of Christian Television Viewers: A Case for Luntha TV in Malawi

Andrew Kaufa

Balaka (MW): Montfort Media (2014), 160 pp.

"This study sought to find out the specific uses and gratifications of Christian television viewers with a view of providing relevant information base for the re-launch of Luntha TV in Malawi. The population of this study was Christian television viewers from 10 denominations in and around Area 18 i ... more

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Global Digital Statistics 2014: We Are Social's Snapshot of Key Digital Indicators

Singapore: We Are Social (2014), 181 slides

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Action for Transparency: Tackling Corruption and Mismanagement of Government Funds in Zambia and Uganda. A Baseline Study

Will Attfield et al.

Kalmar; London: Fojo Media Institute;InterMedia (2014), 39 pp.

"The purpose of the study is to provide baseline data and research-driven recommendations to help inform and later evaluate the impact of ‘Action for Transparency’. Action for Transparency is a three-year, media-for-development programme, managed by Fojo and its partners and funded by the Swedis ... more

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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2013

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 75 pp.

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Armed with Pen and Microphone: Media as Tools for Social Development

Caroline Haidacher

Wien: Frauensolidarität/Women's Solidarity (2014), 78 pp.

"This study shows how women and women’s organisations in Central America and southern Africa use media for social development. One of the milestones of the women’s movement was the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Section J of the Platform for Action, which was a result of th ... more

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The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future

Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.

"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...] ... more

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SAEF Report on Observation of Media Conduct During the 2014 Malawi Tripartite Elections

Southern African Editor's Forum (SAEF) (2014), 15 pp.

"SAEF’s major finding in Malawi was that although the media had covered the entire election process fairly well, it had failed to give equitable coverage to all three parts of the elections – presidential, parliamentary and local government. The press gave 40% coverage to the presidential race, ... more

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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results

London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.

"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium ... more

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Feature Phone User Survey: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

London: Balancing Act (2014), 64 pp.

"Feature phone users are significantly more likely to use the Internet almost as much radio and TV for news and information. This is not an either/or set of choices but the Internet is part of the range of media they use. Internet is in second position in Nigeria, third position in Ethiopia and Keny ... more

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Promoting Alternative Views in a Multipolar World: BRICS and Their Evolving Role in Developing Media Markets. 9th Symposium Forum Media and Development, 10/11 October, 2013, Berlin

Stuttgart; Aachen: Robert Bosch Stiftung;Catholic Media Council (CAMECO) (2014), 75 pp.

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African Media Barometer: Swaziland 2014

Windhoek; Mbabane: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 69 pp.

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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics

Iginio Gagliardone

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.

"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and ... more

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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries

Rebecca Stringer

London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.

"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d ... more

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The Internet and Democracy Building in Lusophone African Countries

Susana Salgado

Farnham: Ashgate (2014), xi,185 pp.

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Development Journalism and Gender: A Case Study of Broadcasting Media in Tanzania

Eva Solomon

Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Doctoral Thesis (2014), 277 pp.

"While development journalism was mainly a top-down form of communication (authoritative) during the socialistic era, in the liberal era the development-oriented journalists draw on both the Social Responsibility and Libertarian Theories of the media. The ‘state–public service’ broadcasters re ... more

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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2014

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 65 pp.