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A Tangled Web: Human Trafficking, Child Protection and the Media

Melanie Hamman, Laura Fletcher

Media Monitoring Africa (2011), 60 pp.

"This report examines South African media coverage of human trafficking during the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup. The monitoring period included the month during the World Cup and the month immediately after (11/06/2010 – 06/08/2010). A total of 3009 newspaper stories and broadcast items were monit ... more

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Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development in Zambia

United Nations (2011), xvi, 105 pp.

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Media Sustainability Index 2010: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2011), xix, 411 pp.

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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
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Anne Nelson (ed.)

Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA);African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.

"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, ... more

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Accountability Through Public Opinion: From Inertia to Public Action

Sina Odugbemi, Taeku Lee (eds.)

Washington, DC: World Bank (2011), xxv, 507 pp.

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The new foreign correspondent at work: Local-national 'stringers' and the global news coverage of conflict in Darfur

Mel Bunce

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2011), 36 pp.

"[...] Explores the role played by local-nationals in covering the crisis for global audiences and how these journalists differed from the traditional, Western-born foreign correspondents who worked alongside them. The research draws on two methods: in-depth, semi-structured interviews with foreign ... more

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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2011

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.

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The Press and the Political Restructuring of Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau

Journal of Eastern African Studies, volume 5, issue 4 (2011), pp. 716-732

"Divisive debates on what constitutes the Ethiopian nation, how the state should be structured and how power should be devolved, have dominated Ethiopia’s private press since the ruling party, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), came to power. The press has served as both ... more

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Communication for Development: Strengthening the Effectiveness of the United Nations
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Elizabeth McCall

New York: UNDP, Bureau for Development Policy (2011), ix, 127 pp.

This publication outlines four communication approaches used by United Nations organizations: (i) behaviour change communication; (ii) communication for social change; (iii) communication for advocacy; and (iv) strengthening an enabling media and communications environment. The second part provides ... more

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Peace Journalism: Giving Power to the People

Media Development, volume 58, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-35

"Peace journalism finds its place in newspapers and magazines, on radio and television, in film and documentaries, in digital media and mainstream cultural events such as public exhibitions and debates. There are also transnational online communities like Avaaz.org, which is dedicated to organizing ... more

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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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Herman Wasserman (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.

"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric ... more

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So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2010

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2011), 218 pp.

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Public Radio Broadcasting and Cultural Pluralism: South Africa's Case of 'holy Cultural Matrimony'

Brilliant Mhlanga

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 35-62

"A closer analysis of the long and arduous journey traversed by African nationalism often shows ethnicity marching along as an invisible ‘matrimonial’ partner. It is on that note that this article seeks to present South Africa’s project of managing ethnic diversity using public radio broadcast ... more

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Mayardit FM Audience Survey

BBC World Service Trust (2011), 47 pp.

"The Research & Learning (R&L) Group, part of the BBC World Service Trust, conducted a survey with radio listeners in Warrap State, South Sudan in December 2010. The objectives of the survey were to establish an understanding of Mayardit FM’s reach with audiences in Warrap State, to provide Mayard ... more

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Kenya's Indigenous Radio Stations and Their Use of Metaphors in the 2007 Election Violence

D. Ndirangu Wachanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 109-125

"The article focuses on the use of metaphors during the 2007 pre- and post-election violence in Kenya that left at least 1400 people dead and more than 350,000 internally displaced. During and after the violence, vernacular radio stations, though not entirely responsible for the violence, were highl ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2011), 273 pp.

"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more

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Changing Norms is Key to Fighting Everyday Corruption

Sabina Panth

Washington, DC: World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (CommGAP) (2011), 25, 55 pp.

"Based on CommGAP’s interactions with the global anticorruption community as well as earlier research, we were able to collate 18 representative instances (case studies) from around the world, with real-life examples of citizens coming together to speak up against corruption and social norms vis-� ... more

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Zimbabwe: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 76 pp.

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Tanzanian Media Environment: Current Access, Potential for Growth and Strategies for Information Dissemination

Gayatri Murthy

Washington, DC: InterMedia (2011), 49 pp.

"This report uses AudienceScapes data from a nationally representative survey of Tanzania to describe how people of different social groups gather, share and access information through mass media. We also focus on whether the presence of mobile phones can further augment information dissemination us ... more

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From ‘What’s Your ASLR’ to ‘Do You Wanna Go Private?’

Gerrit Beger, Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda, Akshay Sinha

New York: UNICEF New York, Division of Communication, Youth Section (2011), 32 pp.

"This report focuses on South Africa and presents the results of a quantitative survey conducted on MXit, the most widely used social networking platform in the country. The first section discusses mobile internet use and social networking in the South African context, where computer and broadband i ... more

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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
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