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Mass media and democratisation in Cameroon in the early 1990s

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Bamenda: Langaa (2011), xiv, 193 pp., bibliogr. p.187-193

ISBN 978-9956-717-81-1 (online); 978-9956-717-18-7 (print)

"In the on-going democratic debate, the Cameroonian media have not played the role of objective mediators. A one-party logic, of which government, opposition and the public are guilty, has prevented Cameroonian multipartyism from addressing the major issue: that of how best to bring about real parti... more

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Elections and the media in postconflict Africa: votes and voices for peace?

Marie-Soleil Frère

London; New York: Zed Books (2011), xiv, 289 pp., abbrev. p.ix-xi, bibliogr. 276-279, index

ISBN 978-1-78032-019-9 (hbk); 978-1-78032-018-2 (pbk)

"In democracies with adjectives, the freedom of press also comes with adjectives." If the political regime is situated between a pure democracy and despotism, the freedom of press is also stuck in an in-between-situation. This statement sums up the results of Marie Soleil Frères empirical analysis ... more

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Designs, devices and development: audience research as creative resource in the making of an Afghan radio drama

Andrew Skuse; Marie Gillespie

Participations, volume 8, issue 1 (2011), pp. 132-153

"This essay analyses the role of audience research as a change agent in media development interventions in Afghanistan. It analyses how audience research in transnational contexts involves a complex set of intercultural negotiations and translations that contribute to the enduring relevance and sust...ainability of the highly popular Afghan radio soap opera New Home, New Life. This is a ‘development drama’ that has been broadcast across Afghanistan since 1993. It is based on BBC Radio 4’s The Archers and produced by BBC Afghan Education Projects (BBC AEP). Audience research has been vital to forging a dynamic relationship between the creative teams who make the drama, the donors who pay for it, and the audiences who consume it. The article addresses three broad themes. First, we outline how data gathered in formative audience research, prior to the creation of the drama, provides the creative team with the dramatic raw material for the radio serial. The extensive qualitative data gathered by Afghan researchers in local milieux is translated so as to enable culturally diverse teams of writers and producers to ground the serial narratives in the lived experiences of its audiences, and to introduce multiple local perspectives on development issues. Second, we show how evaluative audience research, data gathered in the postproduction phase, plays a key role in providing critical audience interpretations of New Home, New Life’s dramatic themes. In so doing, it creates feedback loops that allow audiences to become active participants in the ongoing creation of the drama. The research designs and devices, developed over the last two decades to document the changing life-worlds of Afghan citizens-cum-audiences, are part of an ongoing set of transcultural encounters that contribute to strengthening the social realist appeal of the drama and to calibrating how far any given storyline can be pushed in terms of cultural propriety. Third, we examine how during periods of military conflict, when routine audience research becomes dangerous or impossible and audience feedback loops are disrupted, the writers and producers have to rely on their own personal and political experiences, often with unpredictable ideological consequences. We draw attention to the limitations and challenges of making dramas for development in highly charged politicised and postcolonial contexts. While, development dramas may be a cheap and effective way of dealing with certain informational needs, such as landmine awareness, they cannot redress social and structural inequalities or, as Western donors wish, eradicate opium cultivation." (Abstract) more

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National studies on assessing the economic contribution of the copyright-based industries

Geneva: World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (2011), 392 pp.

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Towards a theory of communication for Africa: the challenges for emerging democracies

Levi Obonyo

communicatio: South African journal for communication theory and research, volume 37, issue 1 (2011), pp. 1-20

"While the scholarship on communication theory has evolved over many years in Africa it is still work in progress. This discourse has been anchored in society's cultural milieu. The import of this is that the debate has evolved without incorporating the realities of Africa. Consequently, theories of... more

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Leaping over the firewall: a review of censorship circumvention tools

Cormac Callanan; Hein Dries-Ziekenheiner; Alberto Escudero-Pascual; Robert Guerra

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2011), 75 pp.

"Internet censorship poses a large and growing challenge to online freedom of expression around the world. Censorship circumvention tools are critical to bypass restrictions on the internet and thereby to protect free expression online. Circumvention tools are primarily designed to bypass internet f... more

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Manual de jornalismo de investigação

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR); WITS University; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 180 pp.

Other Editions: also published in English and French

"On trouvera également une introduction qui replace le journalisme d’investigation dans le contexte de la tradition du journalisme professionnel en Afrique, une section consacrée à la manière d’utiliser les manuels dont le but est de fournir aux étudiants ou à ceux qui utilisent ce matéri... more

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Manuels de journalisme d’investigation

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR); WITS University; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 250 pp.

Other Editions: also published in English and Portuguese

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Investigative journalism manual

Gwen Ansell et al.

Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR); WITS University; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2011), 220 pp.

Other Editions: also published in French and Portugues

"These first chapters form the core of what is planned as a growing guide to investigative journalism over the next two years. To begin, we have assembled the basics: definitions of the field and some key techniques and resources. We will add to these over time a series of supplements dealing with i... more

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Ann Kite yo pale: let them speak. Best practice and lessons learned in communication with disaster affected communities: Haiti 2010

Imogen Wall; Yves Gerald Chéry

BBC World Service Trust; Internews Europe (2011), 88 pp., abbrev. p.86, bibliogr. p.87

"This publication is an important contribution to literature on disaster and humanitarian crisis communication. It analyses in detail the response to two major but very different emergencies in Haiti: the 2010 earthquake and, later that year, the outbreak of cholera. While humanitarian agencies stil... more

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The war in Afghanistan and peace journalism in practice

Media, war & conflict, volume 3, issue 3 (2010), pp. 261-278

"This article argues that Johan Galtung’s theory on peace journalism can serve as a fruitful supplement to theory-building in the field of war and peace journalism, and critically reviews the scholarly debate on peace journalism. By using examples from Norwegian media coverage of the war in Afghan... more

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Uganda

George W. Lugalambi; Peter G. Mwesige

Nairobi: Open Society Initiative for East Africa; Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), x, 145 pp., 18 tables, abbrev. p.v-vi

ISBN 978-1-920355-40-1

"Uganda's broadcast media landscape has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years. While the public broadcaster remains the dominant national player - in terms of reach - in both radio and television, commercial broadcasters have introduced a substantial level of diversity in the industry. Public ... more

L’etat de la liberté de la presse en RD Congo (du 11 déc. 2009 au 10 déc. 2010)

Journaliste en Danger (JED) (ed.)

Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED) (2010), 8 pp., 3 tables

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China in Africa: a new approach to media development?

Iginio Gagliardone; Maria Repnikova; Nicole Stremlau

Oxford; London: Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP) University of Oxford; Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research (2010), 21 pp., bibliogr. p.21

"In the past few years China has rapidly become an important player in the media sector in many African countries in at least three ways. First, its economic success and the impressive growth of media outlets and users within China have quietly promoted an example of how the media can be deployed wi... more

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Comparative study of Church and non-Church run radio stations in Zambia: a case study of Radio Explorers and Radio Maria in Eastern province

Daniel Banda

Lusaka: Master of Mass Communication Thesis University of Zambia (2010), xi, 125 pp., bibliogr. p.110-6

"This is a comparative case study of the church-run, Radio Maria and non church-run, Radio Explorers in the Eastern Province of Zambia. The work compares and contrasts the (1) content and management of the stations, (2) the process of selection of programmes and content development, and (3) accessib... more

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Principios para garantizar la diversidad y el pluralismo en la radiodifusión y los servicios de comunicación audiovisual

Damián Loreti; Gustavo Gómez

Buenos Aires: AMARC América Latina y Caribe (2010), 109 pp.

CC BY-NC

"Este documento expone cuarenta principios con la identificación de las fuentes de doctrina y jurisprudencia comparada con el fin de establecer pautas para la radiodifusión pública, comercial y comunitaria, en el contexto regional actual. Consideramos que este trabajo es un aporte frente a la esc... more

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Shadows of war: a social history of silence in the twentieth century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev; Jay Winter; Ruth Ginio (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-511-67701-4 (ebook); 978-0-521-19658-1 (hbk)

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence... more

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Access to knowledge in Africa: the role of copyright

Chris Armstrong; Jeremy de Beer; Dick Kawooya; Achal Prabhala; Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xii, index

ISBN 978-1-55250-490-1 (ebook); 978-1-91989-545-1 (print) CC BY-NC-SA

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen... more

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El periodista de investigación latinoamericano en la era digital

Nathalia Salamanca; Jorge Luis Sierra; Carlos Eduardo Huertas

Connectas; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2010), 59 pp.

" ... este documento ... busca aportar varias reflexiones al periodismo de investigación impactado por la era digital, en un contexto como el latinoamericano. Las incógnitas y los desafíos que yacen en este reto se presentan en las siguientes páginas, a través de ejemplos mundiales y latinoamer... more

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A people betrayed: the role of the West in Rwanda's genocide

Linda Melvern

London; New York: Zed Books (2009) new updated ed., vii, 370 pp., abbrev. p.vi-vii, bibliogr. p.345-354, index

"In this classic of investigative journalism, Linda Melvern tells the compelling story of what really happened, revealing both the scale, speed and intensity of the unfolding genocide, as well as exposing the governments and individuals who could have prevented what was happening, if they had chosen... more