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Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Watchdog Role of the Media
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Bias in News Media
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Influence of Media on Politics
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Africa’s shifting media landscapes: Digital media use grows, but so do demographic divides
Afrobarometer (2024), 19 pp.
"Afrobarometer data support the notion that the use of digital media is exploding across the continent, although rates of uptake may have slowed in recent years. However, these new media environments also pose challenges. Reduced barriers to access and the decline of gatekeepers can also mean that f
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Mutation du paysage médiatique d'Afrique : L’usage des médias numériques augmente, mais les fossés démographiques aussi
Afrobarometer (2024), 20 pp.
"Les données d'Afrobarometer corroborent l'idée que l'utilisation des médias numériques est en pleine explosion sur le continent, bien que les taux d'adoption aient pu ralentir au cours des dernières années. Cependant, ces nouveaux environnements médiatiques sont également source de défis.
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Confronting threats to civic spaces
Afrobarometer (2022), 86 pp.
Promise and peril: In changing media landscape, Africans are concerned about social media but opposed to restricting access
Afrobarometer (2022), 22 pp.
"Radio remains overwhelmingly the most common source for news in Africa. On average across 34 surveyed countries, two-thirds (68%) of respondents tune in at least a few times a week. Digital media use for news is growing quickly. Between 2014/2015 and 2019/2021, the share of Africans who get news fr
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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
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Cape Town: Afrobarometer (2019), 34 pp.
"Popular support for media freedom continues to decline, dropping to below half (47%) of respondents across 34 countries. More Africans (49%) now say governments should have the right to prevent publications they consider harmful. Twenty-five of 31 countries tracked since 2011 experienced declines i
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Moderation from Bias: A Field Experiment on Partisan Media in a New Democracy
Journal of Politics, volume 77, issue 2 (2015), pp. 575-587
"Partisan media are often blamed for polarization in newly liberalized regimes. However, there is little empirical work on the subject, and information-processing theories suggest that extreme position taking is only one possible response to opinionated news. Rather, we theorize that partisan media
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