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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: Changing Selves, Changing Societies

Ineke Buskens, Anne Webb (eds.)
London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.
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Genozid in Ruanda

Message, issue 4 (2014), pp. 36-45
"Bei der Aufarbeitung des Völkermords in Ruanda liefern die Medien kaum Neues. Ihre zugespitzten und vereinfachende Berichte werden dem komplexen Ereignis oft nicht gerecht. Im Interview kritisiert Stefan Brüne überholte Gut-Böse-Narrative und fordert, im Angesicht aktueller Krisen den Fokus der ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Cameroun 2014

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 132 pp.
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Le rôle des médias communautaires dans la stabilisation des régions de post–crise en Afrique. Étude de cas: La spécificité des radios de proximité en Côte d’Ivoire

Magali Siaudeau
London: Internews Europe; Fondation Roi Baudouin (2014), 40 pp.
"Transformer des radios existantes en radios «communautaire» n’est pas un modèle envisageable à large échelle. Toutefois, le lien créé avec les communautés à travers les groupes d’écoute dans l’ouest de la Côte d’Ivoire a con tribué au processus de rapprochement social entre les ... more
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Centrafrique: Etat des lieux du secteur médias

Marie-Soleil Frère, Pierre Martinot, Pascal Chirhalwirwa, Johanna Rey
Marseille: Panos Europe (2014), 36 pp.
"En République centrafricaine, les médias sont confrontés à des obstacles importants qui les limitent dans leur capacité d’action : fragilité financière, faibles capacités des ressources humaines, dénuement et manque ’équipement. Le paysage médiatique est, en outre, caractérisé par ... more
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Futuros Criativos - Economia e Criatividade em Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau e São Tomé e Príncipe

Alexandro Cardoso, Debora Sanches, Proença, Ilsa Sá, Maria Miguel Estrela, Mário Moniz et al.
ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 209 pp.
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Transitional Justice, Culture, and Society: Beyond Outreach

Clara Ramírez-Barat (ed.)
New York: Social Science Research Council (SSRC); International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) (2014), 560 pp.
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Perception Management: Deterring Potential Migrants Through Information Campaigns

Charles Heller
Global Media and Communication, volume 10, issue 3 (2014), pp. 303-318
"How are images used in the aim of governing migration? This article probes this question through the example of the International Organization for Migration’s (IOM) information campaigns (ICs) in Cameroon, through which it seeks to ‘manage the perception’ of potential illegal(ized) migrants t ... more
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Médias, religion et mobilité en Afrique et dans la diaspora = Media, Religion and Mobility in Africa and the Diaspora

Katrien Pype, Anne Mélice, Steven Van Wolputte (eds.)
Social Compass, volume 61, issue 1 (2014), pp. 3-72
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African Media Barometer: Ghana 2013

Windhoek; Accra: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 67 pp.
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The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in Postconflict Reconstruction

Tim Kelly, David Souter
Washington, DC: World Bank (2014), 99 pp.
"Examines how policymakers, the donor community, and the private sector have prioritized and sequenced ICT initiatives in the aftermath of conflict. Case studies look at countries at different stages of post-conflict reconstruction in Afghanistan, Liberia, Rwanda and Timor-Leste, and postrevolution ... more
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Technologische Dramen: Radiokulturen und Medienwandel in Benin (Westafrika)

Tilo Grätz
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2014), 385 pp.
"Neue Mediengesetze und Technologien verändern das Radio in Westafrika. Tilo Grätz analysiert diesen Wandel am Beispiel der Aneignung von Radiotechnologien in Benin. Er zeigt: Die Prozesse vollziehen sich im Wechselspiel von Produzenten, Hörern und technischen Möglichkeiten unter dem Einfluss me ... more
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Sociedade Civil, Comunicação e Advocacia em São Tomé e Príncipe

Alexandro Cardoso, Ana Filipa Oliveira, José Cardoso Eduardo Elba Edson Moniz, Liadilma Alves et al.
ACEP Associação para a Cooperação Entre os Povos (2014), 128 pp.
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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.
"Very little is known about how African journalists are forging "new" ways to practise their profession on the web. Against this backdrop, this volume provides contextually rooted discussions of trends, practices, and emerging cultures of web-based journalism(s) across the continent, offering a comp ... more
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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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The Sub-Saharan African Media Landscape: Then, Now and in the Future

Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Over five years Facebook has grown from practically no users in Sub-Saharan Africa to become the most widely used social media platform. In the four countries where face-to-face surveys were carried out for this research, between 14% (Tanzania) and 27% (Ghana) of all respondents were using it [...] ... more
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The Gambia Media Survey

Gates Malaria Partnership; Center for Innovation Against Malaria (2014), 56 pp.
"A national survey was completed in November 2004, designed to measure: media access and use; knowledge of Malaria, its prevention and cure; reach of the radio programme Bolongodala. The sample achieved represented the adult (15+) population of the Gambia estimated to be 768,200. Mandinka is the mos ... more
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Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance

Yusuf Kalyango, David H. Mould (eds.)
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 283 pp.
"Global Journalism Practice and New Media Performance provides an overview of new and traditional media in their political, economic and cultural contexts while exploring the role of journalism practice and media education. The authors examine media systems in 16 countries, including China, Russia a ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Benin 2014

Windhoek; Cotonou: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 107 pp.
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Media Role in African Changing Electoral Process

Cosmas Uchenna Nwokeafor, Kehbuma Langmia (eds.)
Lanham et al.: University Press of America (2014), xix, 229 pp.