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African Media Barometer: Zambia 2011

Windhoek; Lusaka: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 72 pp.
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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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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.
"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more
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Zimbabwe’s Community Radio ‘initiatives’: Promoting Alternative Media in a Restrictive Legislative Environment

Nhamo Mhiripiri
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 107-126
"Unlike most nations in southern Africa, Zimbabwe has not seen the expansion in community radio stations that has been characteristic of the region from the 1990s. A number of community radio initiatives (CRIs) were formed after the 2001 Zimbabwean Broadcasting Services Act (BSA), but no licences we ... more
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The Internet in the Print Newsroom: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures in Zimbabwe

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara
In: Making Online News, Vol. 2: Newsroom Ethnographies in the Second Decade of Internet Journalism
David Domingo, Chris Paterson (eds.)
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2011), pp. 57-69
"This chapter focuses on the work practices of newspaper journalists in Zimbabwe and explores the role that the Internet plays in their information gathering and relationship with sources." (Page 57)
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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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Medios que mueven: Entretenimiento educativo para el cambio social
Key Guides

Virginia Lacayo, Arvind Singhal
La Haya: Oxfam Novib (2011), 82 pp.
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Acting on HIV: Using Drama to Create Possibilities for Change

Dennis A. Francis (ed.)
Rotterdam; Boston; Taipei: Sense Publishers (2011), xii, 153 pp.
"Acting on HIV offers a sustained and relatively systematic inquiry into drama as an approach to discussion of HIV/AIDS and related attitudes and behaviors. A distinctive feature of the research that is presented in Acting on HIV is the emphasis on the potential for and value of using drama to promo ... more
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Peace-Making, Power Configurations and Media Practices in Northern Uganda: A Case Study of Mega FM

Florence Brisset-Foucault
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 205-225
"This article analyses the uses of the ‘community’ and ‘peace media’ labels in northern Uganda. It tries to assess their effect on power configurations and on the practices and the representations of media workers. In order to do so, it analyses how non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have ... more
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News Broadcasting on South African Community Radio: In Search of New Public Spheres

Franz Krüger
African Journalism Studies, volume 32, issue 3 (2011), pp. 61-79
"The South African community station movement, consisting now of around 100 such stations, situates itself explicitly in the international tradition of alternative, grassroots and (in some cases) radical media. The stations aspire - and are mandated to - cater for poor and marginalised communities, ... 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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Radio and Religion: A Case of Difference and Diversity

Maria Frahm-Arp
In: Radio in Africa: Publics, Cultures, Communities
Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga, Dumisani Moyo (eds.)
Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2011), pp. 208-222
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Sudan and South Sudan: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2011), 92 pp.
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Perceptions of Public Libraries in Africa

EIFL; TNS RMS East Africa (2011), 101 pp.
"The report presents key findings of the research in six countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. Findings were that most people believe public libraries have the potential to contribute to community development in important areas such as health, employment and agriculture. ... more
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Peace Communication in Sudan: Toward Infusing a New Islamic Perspective

Haydar Badawi Sadig, Hala Asmina Guta
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 602-625
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Community Theatre and AIDS

Ola Johansson
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2011), xii, 179 pp.
"Applying research into assessments of community theatre, epidemiology, and young people's shared and private stories using a wide range of methodologies, this book explores the potential efficacy of community theatre to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Tanzania with reference to several other comp ... more
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Media Toolkit for Local Governance in Lesotho

Paul J. M. van Hoof
Pretoria: Idasa; MISA Lesotho (2011), 39 pp.
"This Media Toolkit for Local Governance in Lesotho is designed to encourage media coverage of news and events in Lesotho’s rural areas at local government level. According to the publication, to improve such media coverage there is a need to focus both on the providers and the collectors of news. ... more
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Community Radio: The Beat That Develops the Soul of the People? A Case Study of XK FM as a SABC Owned Community Radio Station and its Role as a Facilitator of Community Based Development

Thomas Bongani Hart
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Master Thesis (2011), 228 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.
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Kenya

Grace Githaiga
Jeanette Minnie; Hendrik Bussiek (eds.)
Nairobi; Johannesburg: Open Society Initiative for Eastern Africa (OSIEA); Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP); Open Society Media Program (OSMP) (2011), xi, 126 pp.
"Kenya’s liberalisation of the airwaves since the mind-1990s has resulted in the transformation of broadcasting with numerous stations now serving as a platform for information and public debate. This has promoted a culture of participation in the democratic process, and has impacted positively to ... more