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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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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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The Power of Talk: Media and Accountability in Three African Countries

Rebecca Stringer
London: BBC Media Action (2014), 24 pp.
"This policy briefing offers an empirical contribution to evolving thinking on governance within the international development landscape. Using the example of media, we argue that interventions designed to foster demand-based accountability may not be as successful in some fragile settings as more d ... more
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Central African Republic: Supporting the Media and Humanitarian Information and Communication in a Complex Emergency. Roundtable Report, 5-6 February 2014, Yaoundé, Cameroon

International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 30 pp.
"This two-day roundtable brought together representatives from key organizations and institutions in CAR as well as representatives from international organizations currently operating in CAR. The aim was to address the needs for media support and humanitarian information and communication and to en ... more
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Konkorama: Radio Drama Raises Peace Awareness for Sierra Leonean Youth

Julia Krojer, Eustace U. Vin-Bah
In: Youth at the Heart of Peace Work
Christiane Kayser, Flaubert Djateng (eds.)
Berlin: Brot für die Welt (2014), pp. 71-77
"Since the end of the civil war in Sierra Leone the organisation Sierra Leone Adult Education Association (SLADEA), with its headquarters in Freetown and 13 branches all over the country, added Peace Building to its curriculum. In this field of work young people are a particular target group; youth ... more
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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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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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The Central African Republic: Media in a Complex Emergency

Michelle Betz, Suzanne Moll
International Media Support (IMS) (2014), 25 pp.
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Contemporary Media Use in Nigeria

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG); Gallup (2014), 2 pp.
"While radio is still in the lead for news consumption in Nigeria, the use of digital media and mobile continues to grow rapidly. The new research also reveals that Nigerian personal mobile phone ownership has increased significantly in 2014 to 83.0%, up from 73.1% in 2012. Mobile web is the leading ... more
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Baseline Study Report on Women Access to Information Through Mobile and Media Communication Services

Liberia Women Media Action Committee (LIWOMAC); United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF) (2014), 38 pp.
"Out of a total 400 participants, 374 respondents, representing 93.5%, know how to use cell phones, while 26, representing 6.5%, have no knowledge whatsoever about cell phone usage. This finding is indicative of a relatively high knowledge of mobile phones utility. The result also indicates that Lon ... more
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Face-To-Face Survey Overview Summary Results

London: Balancing Act (2014), 50 pp.
"Mobile ownership in all of the four surveys [in Ghana, Nothern Nigeria, Senegal and Tanzania] was around 90%, making the mobile phone the most widely owned device media device, both used as a media carrier (radio) and a media in its own right (Internet, SMS) [...] Radio remains the dominant medium ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2014: Communications Surveillance in the Digital Age

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2014), 283 pp.
"This Global Information Society Watch tracks the state of communications surveillance in 57 countries across the world – countries as diverse as Hungary, India, Argentina, The Gambia, Lebanon and the United Kingdom. Each country report approaches the issue from a different perspective. Some analy ... more
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Global Citizenship in a Digital World

Sherri Hope Culver, Paulette Kerr (eds.)
Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media; Nordicom (2014), 404 pp.
"We are pleased to be sharing with you the second yearbook on media and information literacy and intercultural dialogue. The first MILID Yearbook was published in June 2013 [...] The theme of the 2014 Yearbook is Global Citizenship in a Digital World. Global citizenship assumes ease of participation ... more
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La "cybermigration maritale" des femmes camerounaises: La quête de conjoints blancs

Brice Arsène Mankou
Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 176 pp.
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Discussing the Igbo Language on the Igbo Internet Radio: Explicating Ethnolinguistic Vitality

Uchenna Onuzulike
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 285-298
"There is a growing concern about the decline and possible extinction of the Igbo language. The Igbo are primarily located in the south-eastern part of Nigeria. This study analysed four interviews on Igbo Radio, an Igbo Internet radio station, to ascertain how Internet radio is being utilized in dis ... more
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Aide internationale au secteur des médias du Burundi : Analyse de l’efficience et des effets pervers induits. Cas pratique : Analyse du Plan d’Action Commun d’Appui aux Médias. Deuxième génération

Brice Ryckaert
Haute Ecole de la Province de Namur (2014), 35 pp.
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Videos That Speak for Themselves: When Non-Extensionists Show Agricultural Videos to Large Audiences

Jeffery Bentley, Paul Van Mele, Florent Okry, Espérance Zossou
Development in Practice, volume 24, issue 7 (2014), pp. 921-929
"In 2008, an NGO showed videos about rice to farmers in 19 villages in Benin. A study in 2013 showed that farmers remembered the videos, even after five years had passed. In most of the villages at least some farmers experimented with rice farming or with new technology after the video screenings, w ... more
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African Media Barometer: Ghana 2013

Windhoek; Accra: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2014), 67 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.
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Religion & communication

David Douyère, Stéphane Dufour, Odile Riondet
Paris: L'Harmattan (2014), 232 pp.