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Human Rights Journalism: Advances in Reporting Distant Humanitarian Interventions

Ibrahim Seaga Shaw
Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xvi, 281 pp.
"Shaw argues that journalism should focus on deconstructing the underlying structural and cultural causes of political violence such as poverty, famine and human trafficking, and play a proactive (preventative), rather than reactive (prescriptive) role in humanitarian intervention." (Publisher descr ... more
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A Grey Area: The Nigerien Sahel in the French Media

Gado Alzouma
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 61-74
"This paper analyses how the French media perceive the advent of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in the Sahel, and particularly in Niger. It shows that the French media are constructing Niger as a ‘grey area’, a dangerous place and a ‘failed state’ through a monolithic discourse rooted in ... more
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide

infoasaid (2012), 144 pp.
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Global and Local Televangelism

Pradip Thomas, Philip Lee (eds.)
Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.
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What is Governance? Citizens' Perspectives on Governance in Sierra Leone and Tanzania

Vipul Khosla, Kavita Abraham Dowsing
In: The Handbook of Global Media Research
Ingrid Volkmer (ed.)
Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley Blackwell (2012), pp. 289-311
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Mauritanie: Une presse plus libre se prépare aux élections

Ivor Gaber, Don Duncan
Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2012), 18 pp.
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Linking Community, Radio, and Action Research on Climate Change: Reflections on a Systemic Approach

Blane Harvey, Danny Burns, Katy Oswald
IDS Bulletin (Institute of Development Studies), volume 43, issue 3 (2012), pp. 101-117
"This article reflects upon the opportunities and challenges of using Participatory Action Research (PAR) with community radio broadcasters in southern Ghana to investigate the impacts of climate change. Through a detailed outline of the methodological approach employed in this initiative as well as ... more
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#ICT4HR: Information and Communication Technologies for Human Rights

Molly Land, Patrick Meier, Mark Belinski, Emily Jacobi
World Bank Institute; Open Development Technology Alliance; ICT4Gov (2012), 45 pp.
"Considerable attention has been focused on the opportunities presented by new information and communication technologies for development (“ICT4D”) and for government (“ICT4GOV”). The purpose of this report is to analyze their impact on human rights (“ICT4HR”). As Philip Alston, the form ... more
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Radio Mission: Station ELWA in West Africa

Timothy Stoneman
International Bulletin of Missionary Research, volume 36, issue 4 (2012), pp. 200-204
"The case study of Station ELWA [ = Eternal Love Wins Africa] from 1954 to 1970 exemplifies how conservative evangelical radio missions operated worldwide during the postwar period. Radio missionaries with Station ELWA demonstrated a capacity for creativity in communication, forming part of an histo ... more
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The Nigerian Press and the Challenge of Private Newspaper Ownership: A Study of the Nigerian Tribune, 1949–2009

Abimbola Omotayo Adesoji, Shina Alimi
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 3 (2012), pp. 357-376
"As the oldest surviving privately owned newspaper in Nigeria, the Nigerian Tribune (NT) provides a classic example of how newspapers come to serve a common cause while at the same time projecting the personal ambitions and interests of their founders. This article examines the challenges of private ... more
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Perceptions and Sources of Information in the Obo Region

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 11 pp.
"Between May 19th-27th, 2012, a team of four trained interviewers conducted interviews with 400 randomly selected adults representative of the adult population in Obo, the capital of Haut-Mbomou, one of the 14 prefectures of the Central African Republic (CAR), and its surroundings [...] Radio is the ... more
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Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Cafés of Urban Ghana

Jenna Burrell
Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press (2012), xi, 235 pp.
"The urban youth frequenting the Internet cafés of Accra, Ghana, who are decidedly not members of their country's elite, use the Internet largely as a way to orchestrate encounters across distance and amass foreign ties--activities once limited to the wealthy, university-educated classes. The Inter ... more
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Medias et démocratie au Burkina Faso

Serge Théophile Balima, Augustin Loada, Nestorine Sangaré
Dakar; Leiden: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); African Studies Centre (2012), 108 pp.
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Technologies éducatives et développement : Une brève histoire de la télévision scolaire au Niger

Gado Alzouma
Tic & Société, volume 5, issue 2-3 (2012), pp. 163-188
"The history of development in Africa is littered with all sorts of experiments and projects centred on new technologies often presented as a panacea to the problems of health, education, or agricultural production. The failure of some of those projects shows the limits of the technocentrist approac ... more
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A Pilot Study for GFMD’s Media Development Toolkit: Testing Standards, Strengthening Professionalism. An Assessment of Ghana’s Media Landscape

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA); IREX; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2012), 49 pp.
"The study did not aim to carry out new surveys or collect information that was not already publicly available. Since the toolkit is aimed at providing media development organizations with a tool to assess media landscapes without having to carry out extensive new research, the Ghana study worked on ... more
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Cluster Evaluation Report: UNDEF-Funded Media-Related Projects

Pierre Robert
United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF); Transtec (2012), 40 pp.
"This report is the cluster evaluation of 12 UNDEF-supported projects related to the media. It concerns projects that either focused on media capacity building or included a significant element of work with the media. The projects were implemented between 2007 and 2011; they lasted between 12 and 24 ... more
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Survey on the Publishing Sector in Selected Sub-Saharan Countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda

Bernadette Böcker
Johannesburg: Goethe-Institut; Frankfurt Book Fair (2012), 81 pp.
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Final Reflections: Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.
Internews' project Integrating Local Media and Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) into Humanitarian Response in the Central African Republic (CAR) was an project aimed at improving emergency response, community participation and community resilience. This report presents the final refl ... more
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Addressing Mistrust Between Humanitarians and Local Media: Baseline Assessment for “Integrating Local Media and ICTs Into Humanitarian Response in CAR”

Patrick Vinck, Jean-Pierre Dushime
Internews; Humanitarian Innovation Fund (2012), 8 pp.
"Internews' project to integrate local media and ICTs into humanitarian response in CAR takes place in a context of distrust between journalists and humanitarians. According to this report, humanitarians view the media as lacking credibility, depth, independence and fairness, and as monetizing news ... more
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The Media Landscape in 28 Countries: Results from a UIS Pilot Survey

Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2012), 84 pp.
"This paper presents the results of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) pilot survey on media statistics conducted in 28 countries in 2011. The survey instruments were designed to provide an initial set of quantitative indicators identified by UNESCO’s Media Development Indicators project. G ... more