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Media Sustainability Index 2008: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2009), xix, 411 pp.

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Beyond Broadcasting: The Future of State-Owned Broadcasters in Southern Africa

Guy Berger

Fackson Banda; Jane Duncan; Rashweat Mukundu; Zenaida Machado (contrib.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa, School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2009), 65 pp.

"Digital communications technology does many new things. Its spread means that it is no longer a case of a tiny minority of professionals and politicians having a monopoly on mass communication. Implicit in the observations of this report, is the recognition that - amongst other things - digitisatio ... n also disrupts old boundaries between inter-personal and mass communication. What used to be the subject of, or product of, communication between a few individuals, can increasingly be put into the public sphere. Much of this content remains personal in quality, despite it being public in availability. But there is also much that is of public interest. In some ways, this therefore threatens those institutions supposed to be specialising in public interest information. In other ways, it can help them not only reinforce this mission, but to also take a step towards expanding their role into becoming wider public interest content and commun-ications agencies. They can, in short, be the motive force that pulls personal conversations into focussing on journalism that is of common public interest. That image of leading the transformation of mass communication is, however, just one of the scenarios outlined in this report. The others point to lesser roles, even including extinction. It should be noted that scenarios are not predictions of the future, but attempts to highlight a range of possible options. They help guide action in one or other direction. The complication is that digitisation and all that comes with it can deal a surprise to even the best-considered scenario possibilities. Who would have thought that a search engine company (Google) could become such an effective player in the advertising arena? Or that newspaper newsrooms would start hiring video-capable staffers, or that some cell-phone companies would move into distributing content? Could anyone have guessed that a company like Twitter could attract and burn millions of dollars of investment without even a proper business plan about how it intends to make money? The digital revolution, if it is to succeed, needs to have top quality cadres in the newsrooms. In the face of these kinds of developments, it is tempting to throw up one’s hands and take a come-what-may approach. That’s preferable to the illusion of controlling and managing the process. At the same time, between these two extremes of paralysis and over-planning, there is a broad direction that can be identified and pursued. We may not know exactly where we are going, but - as this Report seeks to do - we can look at where we are and what’s immediately ahead. More fundamentally, however, there’s worth in remembering from whence we come. In other words, while looking at the present and near-present, and keeping an eye on what future scenarios we can imagine, we can hold onto our values. In the context of public broadcasting, these values are - in a nutshell - to focus mass communications on deepening democracy and development. These public interest values remain all the more valid in a time when the historical informational “service” model is being expanded to also function as a public interest communicational mode. Keeping these ideals aloft helps state-owned broadcasters steer a course between delivering government-interest and commercial-interest content. They help to define the meaning of universal access in the face of financial pressures and socio-economic divides. They empower people to see the big picture and to bring concerted action to bear on it. In sum, they help us reinvent “public service broadcasting” in a fashion appropriate to its contemporary possibilities. Roll on digitisation in Southern Africa - and the transformation of at least some state-owned broadcasters to become leaders in this process." ("Summing up", page 53-54) more

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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

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Panos Southern Africa’s Communicating HIV and AIDS in Southern Africa Project, 2005–2008

Jolly Kamwanga, Richard Mutemwa

Stockholm: Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2009), 29 pp.

"The PANOS radio listening clubs have proved to be an effective means of communicating not only HIV and AIDS issues but other development issues within communities. The female radio clubs proved more effective than the male radio clubs. Interviews revealed that communities with the radio listening c ... more

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Mit ITK aus der Krise

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2009), 267 pp.

"In Ihren Händen halten Sie die zweite Auflage unserer Publikation „Auslandsmärkte als Chance“. Als wir vor gut zwei Jahren die erste Ausgabe veröffentlichten, florierte die Weltwirtschaft und mit ihr die IT- und Telekommunikationsmärkte. Wer hätte damals gedacht, dass wir im Jahr 2009 die ... more

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So This is Democracy? Report on the State of Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Southern Africa 2007

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2008), vi, 314 pp.

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Media Sustainability Index 2006/2007: Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2008), xix, 385 pp.

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Publishing, Books and Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Critical Bibliography
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Hans M. Zell

Henry Chakava (introd. essay)

Lochcarron: Hans Zell Publishing, 3rd ed. (2008), xlix, 712 pp.

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Conceptualisations of 'The Community' and 'Community Knowledge' Among Community Radio Volunteers in Katutura, Namibia

Hugh Ellis

Grahamstown: Rhodes University, Master Thesis (2008), iii, 106 pp.

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Namibia: Zwischen Filmmotiv und Filmwirtschaft. Entwicklung und Zukunftschancen der namibischen Filmindustrie seit der Unabhängigkeit 1990

Susan Karolewski

Babelsberg: Hochschule für Film- und Fernsehen „Konrad Wolf“. Fachbereich I, Studiengang Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Diplomarbeit (2008), 105 pp.

"Welche Faktoren für die Produktion eines afrikanischen Films in Namibia nötig sind, wird in der vorliegenden Diplomarbeit analysiert. Gegenstand ist die Darstellung der Filmwirtschaft Namibias mit all ihren Aspekten, Vor- und Nachteilen. Sehr konkret wird die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre und des ... more

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HIV/AIDS Communication in Selected African Countries: Interventions, Responses and Possibilities

Warren Parker, Asta Rau, Penny Peppa

Lusaka: Center for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE);Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) (2007), 80 pp.

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A Research Paper Commissioned and Facilitated by MISA Namibia

Martin Buch Larsen

Windhoek: MISA Namibia (2007), 140 pp.

"In order to get a clear picture of the dynamics impacting on the present and future advance of the Namibian media environment - MISA Namibia has with the assistance of Martin Buch Larsen embarked on a comprehensive research to gather information on media ownership and legislation in The Republic of ... more

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What the Newsroom Knows: Managing Knowledge within African Newspapers

Guy Berger, Fortune Mgwili Sibanda (eds.)

Grahamstown: Highway Africa (2006), 129 pp.

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So This is Democracy? Report on the State of Media Freedom and Freedom of Expression in Southern Africa 2005

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2006), 320 pp.

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Towards an African E-Index: SME E-Access and Usage Across 14 African Countries

Braamfontein: Research ICT Africa (2006), x, 152 pp.

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Auslandsmärkte als Chance: Die deutsche ITK-Wirtschaft

Berlin: Bundesverband Informationswirtschaft, Telekommunikation und neue Medien (BITKOM);Auswärtiges Amt (2006), 498 pp.

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Caught in the Web or Lost in the Textbook? Eighth International Conference on Learning and Educational Media

Éric Bruillard, Bente Aamotsbakken, Susanne V. Knudsen, Mike Horsley (eds.)

International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media (IARTEM) (2006), 485 pp.

This volume gathers contributions presented during the 8th IARTEM conference on learning and educational media, held in Caen (France) in October 2005. The conference reader contains a wide range of contributions from industrialised, transitional and developing countries.

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Southern African Media Directory 2006/7

Werani Chirambo (ed.)

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2006), 164 pp.

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Media and Glocal Change: Rethinking Communication for Development

Oscar Hemer, Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO);Nordicom (2005), 493 pp.

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Reporting AIDS: An Analysis of Media Environments in Southern Africa

London: Panos (2005), 59 pp.

"This report shares the findings of five studies of media coverage of HIV/AIDS, carried out in Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe by the Panos London AIDS Programme, with the support of Johns Hopkins University. The studies aimed to explore some of the issues and tensions involved ... more

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