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Africa Online: Media Use in Sub-Saharan Africa. Findings from the Media Survey - Côte D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2015), 29 slides

"Internet users in Africa tend to be young, educated and in urban areas. The probability of using the internet is also higher for male, and we also find that internet usage patterns differ across gender and location. Mobile phones are the major devices used to go online both at home and elsewhere by ... more

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Images of Africa: Creation, Negotiation and Subversion

Julia Gallagher (ed.)

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2015), xv, 203 pp.

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"Journalism is Not a Crime": Violations of Media Freedom in Ethiopia

Felix Horne

Human Rights Watch (2015), 73 pp.

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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Benjamin F. Soares (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2015), xii, 316 pp.

"New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such me ... more

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From Pictures to Policy: How Does Humanitarian Reporting Have an Influence?

Suzanne Franks

In: Humanitarianism, Communications and Change. Global Crises and the Media

Simon Cottle; Glenda. Cooper (eds.)

Peter Lang (2015), pp. 153-166

"In contrast to the contemporary media perception the government aid provided to Ethiopia was pretty much existing money that was reconfigured and, despite appearances, there was no ‘new money’. The UK Government rejected any longer term ongoing engagement and was just concerned with short-term ... more

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Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasts

In: World Radio TV Handbook: The Directory of Global Broadcasting 2016

Oxford: WRTH Publications (2015), pp. 508-515

"Clandestine broadcasts are politically-motivated broadcasts produced by groups opposed to the government of the target country. Other target broadcasts can be produced by either governmental or non-governmental organisations and are targetted at zones of regional or local conflict." (Page 508)

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New Media and the Developmental State in Ethiopia

Iginio Gagliardone

African Affairs, volume 113, issue 451 (2014), pp. 279-299

"The Ethiopian government, led by the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has developed one of the most restrictive systems for the regulation of new media in Africa. So far, most discussion has focused on the measures employed by the EPRDF to prevent the Internet and mobile p ... 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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Feature Phone User Survey: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa

London: Balancing Act (2014), 64 pp.

"Feature phone users are significantly more likely to use the Internet almost as much radio and TV for news and information. This is not an either/or set of choices but the Internet is part of the range of media they use. Internet is in second position in Nigeria, third position in Ethiopia and Keny ... more

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Media Development with Chinese Characteristics

Iginio Gagliardone

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 4, issue 2 (2014), 16 pp.

"China’s concessionary loans and support to development projects have tended to shift balances of power by favouring certain actors over others and have challenged existing development paradigms, revitalizing ideas of the developmental state. Building on fieldwork conducted in Ghana, Ethiopia, and ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2014. Tightening the Net: Governments Expand Online Controls

Sanja Kelly, Madeline Earp, Laura Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Mai Truong (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2014), 986 pp.

"Internet freedom around the world has declined for the fourth consecutive year, with a growing number of countries introducing online censorship and monitoring practices that are simultaneously more aggressive and more sophisticated in their targeting of individual users. In a departure from the pa ... more

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The Economic Contribution of Copyright Industries in Ethiopia

Wondwossen Belete, Seyoum Tadesse

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2014), 71 pp.

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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.

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Die orientalischen Christen: Eine unterdrückte und verfolgte Minderheit

Heinz Finger, Werner Wessel (eds.)

Rudolf Solzbacher; Nadim K. Ammann (collab.)

Köln: Erzbischöfliche Diözesan- und Dombibliothek (2014), 361 pp.

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Media, Participation and Constitution-Making in Ethiopia

Nicole Stremlau

Journal of African Law, volume 58, issue 2 (2014), pp. 231-249

"In the early 1990s, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), drafted one of Africa’s most ambitious constitutions, allowing for ethnic federalism, decentralization and democratic reforms. The constitution has been highly controversial and many of ... more

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"They Know Everything We Do": Telecom and Internet Surveillance in Ethiopia

Human Rights Watch (2014), 137 pp.

"[The publication] documents how Ethiopia’s government uses its control over the telecom system to restrict individuals’ rights. Based on over 100 interviews with victims of government abuses, former government officials, and former staff of telecom companies, the report describes the various me ... more

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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, Bruno Lanvin (eds.)

Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.

"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r ... more

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Lions Go Digital: The Internet’s Transformative Potential in Africa

James Manyika, Armando Cabral, Lohini Moodley, Safroadu Yeboah-Amankwah, Suraj Moraje, Michael Chui, Jerry Anthonyrajah, Acha Leke

McKinsey (2013), 112 pp.

"The Internet will generate economic growth and social transformation in six sectors in particular: financial services, education, health, retail, agriculture, and government. In financial services, for example, M.Pesa's mobile money solutions have brought millions of Kenyans onto the financial grid ... more

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Neue Medien

Nah Dran (GIZ), issue 1 (2013), pp. 12-27

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No Home from Home: The Plight of East African Exiled Journalists

Doha: Doha Centre for Media Freedom (2013), 80 pp.

"Findings of this research offer new evidence on the extensive campaign of violence and intimidation against journalists in Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan. At the same time, it also recalls exiled journalists’ commitment to freedom of the press and freedom of expression despite ... more