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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)
London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.
"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more
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Médias et promotion de la paix dans la région des Grands Lacs: Dix années d'efforts (2003-2013)

Cyprien Ndikumana
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 175-189
"L'utilisation des technologies de l'information dans des projets innovants a été largement encouragée dans le cadre de divers projets d'appuis aux médias de la région des Grands Lacs. Cyprien Ndikumana présente un certain nombre d'initiatives mises en place, depuis 10 ans, pour amener les jou ... more
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Boko Haram: Der Vormarsch des Terror-Kalifats

Mike Smith
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 287 pp.
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Anthropology, Theatre and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance

Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), xiv, 368 pp.
"The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the transformative potential of political performanc ... more
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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016
Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515
"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)
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Female Genital Cutting in the News Media: A Content Analysis

Meghan Sobel
International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 4 (2015), pp. 384-405
"Mass media play an important role in explaining the issue of female genital cutting and can influence discourse among the general public as well as policy makers. Understanding how news media present female genital cutting has strong implications for the global status of women. This study, a quanti ... more
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Etre journaliste dans les Grands Lacs: Une identité en (re)construction

Marie-Soleil Frère
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 207-223
"Marie-Soleil Frère propose une analyse de l'identité professionnelle des journalistes en RDC, au Burundi et au Rwanda. Partant d'une perspective historique, elle montre comment la profession a évolué dans les trois pays, de la période du monopole étatique à celle du pluralisme médiatique et ... more
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Humanitarian Broadcasting in Emergencies: A Synthesis of Evaluation Findings

Theodora Hannides
London: BBC Media Action (2015), 64 pp.
"This synthesis of evidence suggests that BBC Media Action interventions have an important role to play in assisting people affected by crisis, and is consistent with other literature that highlights the role of media in providing accurate and reliable information in crisis. It highlights that, as w ... more
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Liberia: Situation of Media Broadcasting

Internews (2015), 1 p.
"This map shows the locations of radio stations in Liberia." (Internews website)
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Les radios communautaires en Afrique de l'Ouest: Moteur de la gouvernance démocratique locale

Diana Senghor
In: Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)
Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), pp. 81-99
"L'article examine en particulier la relation entre les radios dites communautaires et la gouvernance locale. Se fondant sur l'exemple du Sénégal, elle montre comment la décentralisation politique et administrative d'une part et l'émergence des radios locales d'autre part ont été deux dynamiqu ... more
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Media Contact List [Liberia]

Internews (2015), 16 pp.
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Médias d'Afrique: Vingt-cinq années de pluralisme de l'information (1990-2015)

Marie-Soleil Frère (ed.)
Paris: Karthala (2015), 267 pp.
"Un quart de siècle s'est écoulé depuis les « transitions démocratiques » qui, au début des années 1990, ont ramené le pluralisme politique et médiatique en Afrique subsaharienne. Libéralisé, le champ des médias a connu des transformations spectaculaires, avec l'apparition de milliers d ... more
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Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa: Mediating Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
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Winston Mano (ed.)
London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp.
"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me ... more
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Im Gegenlicht: Gesellschaftskritik im Spielfilm

iz3w, issue 384 (2015), pp. 17-40
"Gerade in Ländern des Globalen Südens gibt es eine beeindruckende Vielfalt kritischer Spielfilme aller Genres, vom Roadmovie bis zur Groteske. Mal sind sie explizit politisch, mal eher angedeutet und metaphorisch, um die Zensur zu umgehen oder um eindimensionale Interpretationen zu unterlaufen. I ... more
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Can Mass Media Interventions Reduce Child Mortality?

Roy Head et al.
Lancet, volume 386, issue 9988 (2015), pp. 97-100
"Many people recognise that mass media is important in promoting public health but there have been few attempts to measure how important. An ongoing trial in Burkina Faso (ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01517230) is an attempt to bring together the very different worlds of mass media and epidemiology: to me ... more
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Proverbes du Bénin: Sagesse éthique Appliquée de Proverbes Africains = Benin Proverbs: Practical Ethical Wisdom from African Proverbs

Angèle Kolouchè Bíao, Aurélien Atídegla (eds.)
Geneva: Globethics.net (2015), xxx, 95 pp.
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On the Liveness of Mobile Phone Mediation: Youth Expectations of Remittances and Narratives of Discontent in the Cameroonian Transnational Family

Primus M. Tazanu
Mobile Media & Communication, volume 3, issue 1 (2015), pp. 20-35
"Drawn from multisited fieldwork conducted among Cameroonians in Germany and Cameroon, the article reveals that the liveness of mobile phone communication influences expectations and narratives of remittances in Cameroonian transnational social relationships. These expectations are meaningful within ... more
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Communicating War in Mali, 2012: On-Offline Networked Political Agency in Times of Conflict

Mirjam de Bruijn, Lotte Pelckmans, Boukary Sangare
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 7, issue 2 (2015), pp. 109-128
"This article tries to understand the development of political agency in relation to the unprecedented access to new ICT of the Fulani nomads and urbanites in the Mopti region (Hayre), who engage increasingly with new actors and networks present in the war zone: ‘rebels’ and jihadists; the diasp ... more
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Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice

Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)
Wien; Zürich: Lit (2015), ii, 186 pp.
"This book approaches the memory sharing of groups, communities and societies as inevitable struggles over the interpretation of, and authority over, particular stories. Coming to terms with the past in memory work, alone or with others, is always unsteady ground and the activation of memory will al ... more
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De l'éducation par les médias à l'éducation aux médias

Alain Kiyindou, Francis Barbey, Laurence Corroy-Labardens (eds.)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2015), 334 pp.