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The Media Landscape in 54 Countries: Country Profiles from the 2011 and 2012 UIS Pilot Surveys

Paris: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2013), 155 pp.
"The current UIS Questionnaire on Media Statistics provides information for three UNESCO frameworks, namely the Media and Information Literacy Framework, the Media Development Indicators Framework and the Framework for Cultural Statistics. The questionnaire collects data for reporting global progres ... more
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Intervention Mali: Tracking Sentiment Across Social Media

Washington, DC: ConStrat (2013), 11 pp.
"Considering the lessons learned from US engagement in Iraq and especially Afghanistan, military engagement can only be sustained with the support of local populations. The concept of “winning hearts and minds” has emerged as an essential component of the counterinsurgency-counterterrorism doctr ... more
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Barometre des Médias Africains: Senegal 2013 = African Media Barometer: Senegal 2013

Windhoek; Dakar-Fann: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2013), 124 pp.
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Kongo: Eine Geschichte

David van Reybrouck
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2013), 782 pp.
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ICTs and Radio in Africa: How the Uptake of ICT Has Influenced the Newsroom Culture Among Community Radio Journalists

Goretti Linda Nassanga, Linje Manyozo, Claudia Lopes
Telematics and Informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266
"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t ... more
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Afrika! Plädoyer für eine differenzierte Berichterstattung

Martin Sturmer
Konstanz; München: UVK (2013), 192 pp.
"Seit Jahrzehnten wird die mangelnde Qualität der Afrika-Berichterstattung in deutschsprachigen Medien kritisiert. Zu Recht: Die Überbetonung von negativen Aspekten wie Bürgerkriegen, Hungerkatastrophen und Krankheiten entspricht den aktuellen Entwicklungen auf dem aufstrebenden Erdteil kaum. Afr ... more
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Social Media and Journalism in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122
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Gender and Media = Genre et Médias

Africa Media Review, volume 21, issue 1-2 (2013), pp. 1-192
"The articles contained in this special issue build on the conversations initiated at the Cairo Symposium and try to make sense of the shifts and transformations in media and gender relations in Africa. Some bring new perspectives to bear on how traditional media (newspapers, magazines, radio and te ... more
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Connecting People for Development: Why Public Access ICTs Matter

Araba Sey, Chris Coward, François Bar, George Sciadas, Chris Rothschild, Lucas Koepke
Seattle: University of Washington Information School, Technology & Social Change Group (2013), 240 pp.
"Libraries, telecenters, and cybercafés play a critical role in extending the benefits of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to a diverse range of people worldwide. However, their ability to contribute to development agendas has come into question in recent times. The Global Impact S ... more
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Community Media for Development and Participation: Experiences, Thoughts and Forethoughts
Deep Insights

Ayobami Ojebode (ed.)
Ibadan: John Archers (2013), xxii, 422 pp.
"A collection of debate and report articles on community media and community communication, this book presents experiences, thoughts and forethoughts from Cyprus, Ghana, Kenya, Malaysia and Nigeria. In the first section of the book are found studies of the practice and impact of community media, esp ... more
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Selective Believability: A Perspective on Africans’ Interactions with Global Media

Abdullahi Tasiu Abubakar
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 219-236
"This article attempts to highlight a new perspective on African audiences’ engagement with global media and point to new postulates in audience research. It briefly reviews key reception theories, ranging from the effects tradition to active audience paradigm and encoding-decoding model. It then ... more
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African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History

Carmela Garritano
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2013), xii, 246 pp.
"African Video Movies and Global Desires is the first full-length scholarly study of Ghana's commercial video industry, an industry that has produced thousands of movies over the last twenty years and has grown into an influential source of cultural production. Produced and consumed under circumstan ... more
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Negative Political Advertising and the Imperative of Broadcast Regulation in Ghana

Gilbert K. M. Tietaah
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 2 (2013), pp. 203-217
"This article addresses concerns that an insidious culture of intolerance, hate and insults in Ghanaian politics and electoral contests could undermine the efficacy of the country’s neo-democracy. The article draws on pre-election interviews with the two main contenders in Ghana’s 2012 elections ... more
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Media in West Africa: A Thematic Report Based on data 1900-2012

Richard Asante, Maavi Norman, Eitan Tzelgov, Staffan I. Lindberg
Kellogg Institute for International Studies; University of Gothenburg; V-Dem Institute (2013), 38 pp.
"The media sector in West Africa has seen significant region-wide improvements, attributable not just to improvements in isolated cases but to general improvements in all countries. Nevertheless, despite general improvement, aspects of the media sector lag behind others, including: 1) government har ... more
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Évaluation de l’appui aux médias en période électorale en Afrique subsaharienne. Synthèse du rapport

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Paris: Ministère des Affaires Étrangères (2013), 27 pp.
"L’appui à la couverture médiatique du scrutin vise trois objectifs : offrir une information suffisante au citoyen pour que son choix électoral soit posé en connaissance de cause; garantir le pluralisme à travers la visibilité octroyée aux différentes forces en présence; crédibiliser le ... more
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Broadcasting Change: Radio Talk Shows, Education and Women’s Empowerment in Senegal

Fanta Diamanka
Ohio: Ohio University, Patton College of Education, Doctoral Thesis (2013), 473 pp.
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Die Lage der Bistumspresse: Ein Blick über die Grenze. Kirchenzeitungen in Poona, Gitega und Leitmeritz

Andrea Franzetti, Annika Franzetti
Communicatio Socialis, volume 46, issue 1 (2013), pp. 44-55
"Anhand dreier Fallbeispiele aus Indien, Burundi und der Tschechischen Republik kann exemplarisch gezeigt werden, wie sehr das jeweilige Umfeld die Schwierigkeiten diözesaner Presse prägt. Mediensystem, gesellschaftliche und diözesane Rahmenbedingungen scheinen als Einflussgrößen auf die Bistum ... more
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"Cry Your Own Cry": On Popular Visual Media of Life Experiences in Ghanaian Mottonyms

Joseph Oduro-Frimpong
EASA Media Anthropology Network (2013), 23 pp.
"Mottonyms are both inscriptions, based on people’s experiences, on Ghanaian commercial vehicles and ‘names’ by which drivers of such vehicles are called. Prior research on mottonyms implicitly affirms how these inscriptions are embedded in human interpersonal relationships and on careful refl ... more
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Cinema and Development in West Africa

James Eskridge Genova
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xiv, 222 pp.
"Cinema and Development in West Africa shows how the film industry in Francophone West African countries played an important role in executing strategies of nation building during the transition from French rule to the early postcolonial period. James E. Genova sees the construction of African ident ... more
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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.
"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more