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"Currency research organisations, i.e. organisations conducting research into media use, whose results constitute a nationally valid standard (“currency”) for the advertising business, are of prime importance for developed media systems. In 2017, the global advertising market will reach a volume
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IGF Academy Transfer Guide: Sharing Learning and Experience from Year One
Berlin: iRights; IGF Academy (2017), 59 pp.
"This publication is what we call our Transfer Guide. It serves three different purposes. First, it documents the work done by the IGF Academy team and the eight fellows in 2016. Together, we mapped those stakeholders involved (or who should be involved) in Internet governance in the eight countries
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Country Reports 2016
Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 253 pp.
Research Report: Regulatory Framework for Community Broadcasting
Johannesburg: Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) (2017), 109 pp.
"There are currently 280 community broadcasting services (275 community sound and 5 community television services). According to AC Nielsen and All Media and Products Survey (AMPS) data, community broadcasting services collectively take up an audience share of 6.3 million people in South Africa. How
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Adoption and Impact of OER in the Global South
Cape Town; Ottawa: African Minds; Research on Open Educational Resources for Development (ROER4D); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2017), xiii, 592 pp.
"Education in the Global South faces several key interrelated challenges, for which Open Educational Resources (OER) are seen to be part of the solution. These challenges include: unequal access to education; variable quality of educational resources, teaching, and student performance; and increasin
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Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century: From the "Heart of Darkness" to "Africa Rising"
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2017), xvii, 239 pp.
"Africa’s Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media’s coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, esp
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The Audience-Centred Approach to Media Policymaking: A Critical Analysis of the South African Press Freedom Commission as a Participatory Process of Review
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 74-99
"This article presents and makes a case for the audience-Centred approach to media policymaking and research, and situates this discussion within the South African revision of the regulatory mechanism for the press. In South Africa the press accountability mechanism, the Press Council of South Afric
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Media and Citizenship: Between Marginalisation and Participation
Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press (2017), xi, 241 pp.
"Media and Citizenship challenges some assumptions about the relationship between the media and democracy in highly unequal societies like South Africa. In a post-apartheid society where an enfranchised majority is still unable to fundamentally practise their citizenship and experiences marginalisat
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Country Reports 2017
Pan African Media Research Organization (PAMRO) (2017), 258 pp.
Implementing constitutional language provisions through the Indigenous Language Publishing Programme
South African Journal of African Language, volume 37, issue 2 (2017), pp. 203-209
"The trade publishing sector in South Africa produces books primarily in English and Afrikaans, which is not representative of the spread of languages spoken in the country. In particular, there are very few books published for general readers in the local African languages. The Indigenous Language
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Pavement Internet: Mobile Media Economies and Ecologies in South Africa
Spaces of Resistance in the De-Westernization of Journalism Curricula Narrative in Post-1994 South Africa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 3 (2017), pp. 415-433
"Since 1994, the call to de-westernize journalism education and training curricula has been a major narrative in South Africa’s transformation discourses. Journalism education and training institutions have responded to this call by holding conferences, colloquia, seminars and symposia to try and
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Media Framing of Democratisation Conflicts in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: A Content Analysis
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 26 pp.
"This MeCoDEM working paper presents an overview of the main findings from a quantitative content analysis covering different types of democratisation conflicts (i.e., conflicts over citizenship, elections, transitional justice and distribution of power) in four countries: Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and S
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Voice or Chatter? Country Overview South Africa
IT for Change (2017), 22 pp.
Shifting the South African Media Diversity Debate from the Stick to the Carrot: Lessons from Scandinavia, Latin America and West Africa
Deep Insights
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 1 (2017), pp. 66-84
"More than 20 years into democracy, the South African media landscape, although free and moderately pluralistic, still does not represent fairly the diversity of viewpoints held in the country. Yet, the South African media debate on transformation has been dominated by the ANC’s continued focus on
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Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
Deep Insights
London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xxiii, 315 pp.
"Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing
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In Media We Trust: Journalists and Institutional Trust Perceptions in Post-Authoritarian and Post-Totalitarian Countries
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 629-644
"Trust is a societal value that is difficult to gain and easy to lose. This article deals with the levels of trust that journalists working in eight post-authoritarian and post-totalitarian countries (Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Czech Republic, Indonesia, Latvia, South Africa and Tanzania) have i
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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users
London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.
"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across
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Structural Working Conditions of Journalism in Egypt, Kenya, Serbia and South Africa: Empirical Findings from Interviews with Journalists Reporting on Democratisation Conflicts
Media, Conflict and Democratisation (MeCoDEM) (2017), 21 pp.
"The structural conditions of journalism are shaped by legacies of the past (marked by non-democratic regimes and sometimes colonial rule) and persisting power structures. The state and powerful political actors are perceived to play an important role in the media sector, mirrored in different forms
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