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Freedom on the Net 2015: Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2015), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fifth consecutive year, with more governments censoring information of public interest and placing greater demands on the private sector to take down offending content. State authorities have also jailed more users for their online writings, wh
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"Our remit was to look for innovative media outlets that are producing high-quality news, that are technologically innovative and that might actually survive financially. Accordingly, we spent three months interviewing media innovators around the world and reading what others have written on the sub
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Beyond Tokenism: The Need to License Community Radio Stations in Zimbabwe
London: Amnesty International (2015), 39 pp.
"This report is a qualitative study focussing on Zimbabwe’s failure and/or refusal to license community radio stations since 2001, despite existing legal frameworks providing for such. It looks at the Constitution of Zimbabwe and the Broadcasting Services Act, the two key pieces of legislation whi
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Arabische Medien
Deep Insights
Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.
"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei
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Von "De Voortrekkers" bis "Tsotsi"
Afrika Süd, issue 1 (2015), pp. 35-37
"In Südafrika gibt es seit 120 Jahren Kino und Filmproduktionen. Die südafrikanische Filmindustrie zählt zur ältesten weltweit. Bereits 1895 zog das erste Kinetoscope in Johannesburg Zuschauer an. Jahrzehntelang von der Ideologie des burischen Nationalismus dominiert, muss sich die heutige Films
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Interim Assessment of Media Development in South Sudan
Paris: UNESCO (2015), xii, 60 pp.
Farmer Participation in Radio Campaigns for Technology Adoption: Lessons from AFFRI’s Hybrid Maize Campaign in Mangochi, Malawi
Journal of Development and Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2015), pp. 1-17
"This ethnographic study used focus group discussions to investigate and gather ideographical information about why statistics from the Nankumba region of Mangochi in Malawi, where, from 2008 to 2010, Farm Radio International implemented the African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) - a meticul
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"Mechachal is a collaborative project developed by the University of Oxford and Addis Ababa University to understand the nature and potential of online debates in Ethiopia. Mechachal can be translated from Amharic as “tolerance”, or as one’s awareness of their own social sphere and willingness
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Small Cinemas in Global Markets: Genres, Identities, Narratives
Lanham: Lexington Books (2015), xxiv, 294 pp.
"Small Cinemas in Global Markets addresses aspects such as identity, revisiting the past, internationalized genres, new forms of experimental cinema, markets and production, as well as technological developments of alternative small screens that open new perspectives into small cinema possibilities.
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All Answers: On the Phenomenal Success of a Brazilian Pentecostal Charismatic Church in South Africa
In: Pentecostalism in Africa: Presence and Impact of Pneumatic Christianity in Postcolonial Societies
Leiden: Brill (2015), pp. 136-162
"The UCKG’s phenomenal success in post-apartheid South Africa had been a source of much speculation. Scholars generally attributed the church’s growth to new political and economic processes while the South African media and the church’s critics suspected that the UCKG’s attraction was caref
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Background Paper: Politics and Interactive Media in Zambia
Cambridge: Centre of Governance and Human Rights, University of Cambridge (2015), 15 pp.
"This background paper provides an overview of the history and context of interactive media and public opinion in Zambia. It is prepared as part of Politics and Interactive Media in Africa (PiMA) - a collaborative study involving the University of Cambridge, University of Nairobi and University of Z
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Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2015), 152 pp.
Contributing to Change: Supporting Zimbabwe's Media
International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 50 pp.
"It is my pleasure to introduce this report on the contribution of International Media Support and our partners to important changes in the Zimbabwean media sector over the past decade. Impact—or ‘contribution towards change’ as we term it in this report— is often an elusive, hard-to-illustr
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Assessment of the Observance of TV Programme Ratings in Uganda: A Case of Telenovelas
Makerere University (2015), xxii, 75 pp.
"The study finds that there is a general liking for Partenal Guidance (PG) ratings, based on the need to protect the children from harmful and foreign content, as well as to avoid adoption of foreign cultures. However, this does not translate into action in determining viewership decisions, with man
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Digital Lives in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda
Farnham: Caribou Digital Publishing (2015), 186 pp.
"[...] Specifically, we argue that development programs with an eye on instrumental outcomes are well-served by the cultivation of an understanding of broader digital practices—of people’s increasingly digital lives. This work explores not only what devices people use, but also how they get onli
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Narrative Interpretation of HIV/AIDS Messages: The Effects of Storytelling Prompts Among Rural University Students
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 3 (2015), pp. 400-418
"This study examined the use of a locally developed storytelling prompt as an alternative medium for HIV and AIDS awareness and prevention messages among rural university students in Limpopo Province, South Africa. An assessment of first-year students’ (n=21) response to a storytelling stimulus wi
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Participatory Photography for Peace: Using Images to Open Up Dialogue After Violence
Journal of Peacebuilding & Development, volume 10, issue 3 (2015), pp. 74-88
"This article begins with a literature review of Participatory Photography (PP) that highlights how this tool has been mostly implemented for action research, advocacy, and public health purposes. It shows how scholars have only quite recently begun to recognise its ability to generate change among
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Radio Listening Clubs in Malawi as Alternative Public Spheres
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 13, issue 1-2 (2015), pp. 105-120
"Many people in rural areas in Malawi lack access to information due to illiteracy and the unavailability of reliable sources of information. There is also an absence of a proper forum where rural ordinary people can express their views and have their voices heard. However, in communities where ther
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A Community of Communities? Emerging Dynamics in the Community Media Paradigm
Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2015), pp. 3-23
"Recent years have seen numerous attempts by community broadcasters around the world to reinvent their practices in an effort to remain relevant and financially sustainable in the digital age. One proposed initiative is to have community programming distributed via satellite, either in the form of a
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Humanitarianism 2.0
Humanitarianism 2.0 Project (2015), 102 pp.
"The five reports that make up this collection are variously concerned with humanitarian aid, social and cultural evolution, crisis response, the mitigation of cultural divides, and political unrest. The themes that bind them are an international movement towards public safety; a trust-based relatio
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