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Women in Politics and Media: Perspectives from Nations in Transition

Maria Raicheva-Stover, Elza Ibroscheva (eds.)
New York; London: Bloomsbury Academic (2014), xiv, 334 pp.
"This is the first collection to de-Westernize the scholarship on women, politics and media by: 1) highlighting the latest research on countries and regions that have not been ‘the usual suspects’; 2) featuring a diverse group of scholars, many of non-Western origin; 3) giving voice through pers ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.
"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... 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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'The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio in the Digital Age

Sarah Helen Chiumbu
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 249-264
"In this article, I analyse the changing nature and meaning of ‘community’ in community radio in the digital age using insights from literature on imagined communities, translocality and liminality. I argue that new media technologies are opening up new spaces for community radio that go beyond ... more
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Internet Freedom and Freedom of Expression in South Africa

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI); Raith Foundation (2014), 31 pp.
"In a rapidly changing civil-political and socio-economic environment, the internet has emerged as one of the primary mechanisms that influence and continue to redefine the practice of democracy. Internet freedom is therefore an increasingly important safeguard towards advancing not only freedom of ... more
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Bongo Media Worlds: Producing and Consuming Popular Culture in Dar Es Salaam

Matthias Krings, Uta Reuster-Jahn (eds.)
Köln: Köppe (2014), 286 pp.
"In the wake of the transformation from a socialist to a neoliberal capitalist economy, Tanzania has witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of cultural production which went hand in hand with a steep rise in formal and informal media outlets. Bongo Media Worlds provides insights into the diverse a ... more
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Performing Patriotic Citizenship: Zimbabwean Diaspora and Their Online Newspaper Reading Practices

Tendai Chari
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 91-110
"This article focuses on the psycho-social dimension of the diaspora through an examination of the online news consumption practices of the Zimbabwean diaspora. The objective is to contribute on theoretical debates about the way in which the diaspora imagine their citizenship in the digital age. Dat ... 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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Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives, Vol. 2

Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen (eds.)
New York: Peter Lang (2014), xii, 406 pp.
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Slum Discourse, Media Representations and Maisha Mtaani in Kibera, Kenya

Brian Ekdale
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 92-108
"This article examines the discourse surrounding Kibera, a highly populated low-income community in Nairobi, Kenya. Based on 11 months of fieldwork and interviews with 56 Kibera residents, this article discusses the disconnect between the lives experienced by residents and the hyperbolic and essenti ... more
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Comparing the United Kingdom's Guardian Newspaper with its Co-Owned South African Mail & Guardian Online: Towards Productive Global North–South Collaborations in the Digital World Information Order

Bella Mody
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 1 (2014), pp. 74-91
"This article highlights how one online news organisation in the global south, with no more than three staff and no foreign correspondents, strategically used multiple wire service feeds to successfully cover a significant story more comprehensively than its better-endowed co-owner. It compares the ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more
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Communications, Technology and Humanitarian Delivery: Challenges and Opportunities for Security Risk Management

Raquel Vazquez Llorente, Imogen Wall (eds.)
European Interagency Security Forum (EISF) (2014), 68 pp.
"The articles contained in this publication are dispatches from a new frontline in humanitarian action: the digital frontier. All are written by those observing, experiencing and attempting to respond to the challenges created by the digital revolution and the very real threats it is creating for hu ... more
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What Was the Role of the Debate Programme Sema Kenya in the 2013 Kenyan Election?

Angela Githitho Muriithi, Georgina Page
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 62 pp.
"This paper seeks to identify the extent to which the national TV and radio programme Sema Kenya (Kenya Speaks), part of BBC Media Action’s governance work in Kenya, supported accountability, peace and inclusion at the time of the 2013 Kenya election. It shows the specific value placed on Sema Ken ... more
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The Concept of Public Service Broadcasting in a Changing Africa: A Tanzanian Experience

Amani Millanga
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 1 (2014), pp. 7-25
"The central argument in this article is that the concept of public service broadcasting (PSB) in ‘a changing Africa’ has been changing, reflecting the changes in political, economic and sociocultural sceneries in Africa. Thus, from a Tanzanian experience, this article is an overview of the conc ... more
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Status of Content and Programming by Community Radio Stations in Kenya

Nairobi: Kenya Community Media Network (KCOMNET) (2014), 73 pp.
"This assessment was done to determine the level of quality content at the community radio stations in Kenya, as well as the key determinants of this content quality, with the aim of informing interventions to address the identified challenges or gaps at the various targeted radio stations. The asse ... more
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Annual Report 2014

Dar es Salaam: World Family of Radio Maria Africa (2014), 21 pp.
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Análise da cobertura de saúde na mídia moçambicana 2013

Rui Lamarques
Maputo: IREX (2014), 32 pp.
"Se quisermos caracterizar o perfil das fontes às quais os jornalistas recorreram, poder-se-á dizer que esta é masculina, oficial e com fala desenraizada de um lugar geográfico específico – portanto, de nível nacional. É o caso do ministro da Saude, Alexandre Manguele, que é uma fonte reco ... more
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Deconstructing Terror: Assessing Media’s Role in Religious Intolerance and Radicalisation

Amos Kibet
Nairobi: Media Council of Kenya (2014), xiii, 52 pp.
"The study examined various sampled media content and interviewed key informants to understand professional and ethical considerations informing media coverage of terror, religious extremism and radicalisation. From the findings, it is evident that the media somehow contributes to the propagation of ... more
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Whose Media, Whose Agenda? Monitoring the Malawi 2014 Tripartite Elections

Ivor Gaber, Edrinnie Lora-Kayambazinthu
African Journalism Studies, volume 35, issue 3 (2014), pp. 106-114
"In 2014 Malawi experienced its first-ever tripartite elections involving presidential, parliamentary and local government contests. The role of the media was monitored in a major operation covering radio, television, newspapers, news websites and social media. The results revealed that, with the ex ... more