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Mobile Media Services at Sub-Saharan African Newspapers: A Guide to Implementing Mobile News and Mobile Business
Key Guides

Kristina Bürén (ed.)
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 81 pp.
"The handbook includes case studies gathered through interviews with newspapers in Uganda, Kenya and South Africa, including the Observer and Daily Monitor in Uganda, the Standard and the Daily Nation in Kenya, and Grocott’s Mail, the Mail and Guardian, the Sunday Times and the Sowetan in South Af ... more
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The Image of Women in African Media

African Communication Research (St. Augustine University Mwanza), volume 4, issue 3 (2011), pp. 389-536
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Participatory Radio Campaigns and Food Security: How Radio Can Help Farmers Make Informed Decisions

Kevin Perkins, Doug Ward, Mark Leclair
Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 88 pp.
"The African Farm Radio Research Initiative (AFRRI) was a 42-month action research project implemented by Farm Radio International (FRI) in partnership with World University Service of Canada (WUSC), and with the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. An estimated 40 million farmers in five ... more
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
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Lawrence Pintak
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.
"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in ... 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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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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Media Use and Abuse in Ethiopia

Zenebe Beyene
In: The Handbook of Global Communication and Media Ethics
Robert S. Fortner, Mark Fackler (eds.)
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2011), pp. 700-734
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An Exploratory Investigation Into the Status of Reading Promotion Projects in South Africa

Sabelo Ransome Chizwina
University of Pretoria, Master Thesis (2011), 171 pp.
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Korruption und Transparenz: Rechenschaft in ökumenischen Beziehungen

Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2011), 136 pp.
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Assessment of Media Development in Mozambique: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators

Tomás Vieira Mário (coord.)
Paris: UNESCO (2011), viii, 87 pp.
"Over the last five years, Mozambique has achieved significant improvements in the supporting infrastructure for developing and expanding media and ICTs. The expansion of the optical fibre services, and of access to fixed and mobile telephony and broadband Internet, have been instrumental in helping ... more
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Revisiting the ‘leapfrog’ Debate in Light of Current Trends of Mobile Phone Internet Usage in the Greater Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, Tamsin van Tonder
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 263-276
"At first glance, mobile technology appears to have the potential to allow countries in Africa to technologically ‘leapfrog’ across the digital divide and provide much needed Internet access to a wide range of people currently unable to participate in the Information Society. This study investig ... 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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War Journalism or Peace Journalism? A Case Study of U.S. And British Newspapers Coverage of the Somali Conflict

Tewodros W. Workneh
Global Media Journal - Mediterranean Edition, volume 6, issue 1 (2011), pp. 40-52
"On its issue of March 1, 2010, Time magazine reported that Sheik Fuad Mohamed Shangole, a leader of an Islamist group known as al-Shabaab (the Youth), which is fighting for control of the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia, made a public declaration of allegiance to Osama bin Laden. The purpose of th ... more
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Teaching Journalism or Teaching African Journalism? Experiences from Foreign Involvement in a Journalism Programme in Ethiopia

Terje S. Skjerdal
Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 5, issue 1 (2011), pp. 24-51
"Journalism programmes across the African continent have different attitudes to the issue of universal vs. local values in journalism. This article discusses the issue in light of a post-graduate journalism programme that opened at Addis Ababa University in 2004. In its 5-year implementation phase, ... 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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Light in the Darkness: Internews Radio in Southern Sudan and the Three Areas. Findings of Community Impact Assessment

Sonya De Masi
Internews (2011), 126 pp.
"This report offers an overview of results of an assessment that sought to investigate the audience impact of Internews’ network of five FM radio stations in southern Sudan and two transitional areas that were established to provide their communities with critical information about the peace agree ... more
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African Media Barometer: Botswana 2011

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 68 pp.
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2011

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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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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