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Influence of Digital Media on Radio’s Public Discourse: A Case Study of Gagasi FM and Ukhozi FM
Communicatio (2024), 29 pp.
"This article examined the effects of digital media on radio’s role in public discourse and civic engagement in South Africa. The study combined a review of existing literature with empirical research using in-depth interviews with 10 participants that included radio producers and listeners from r
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Strengthening Citizens’ Participation in Decision-Making Through Interactive Radio Dialogue in Kitui, Machakos and Makueni Counties
Nairobi; Cambridge (UK): Africa’s Voices Foundation (2023), 43 pp.
How to Foster Constructive Dialogue as Part of Media Development? Lessons from a Case Study on Interactive Radio Formats in Niger
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2023), 22 pp.
"This case study shows that media development endeavors to foster constructive dialogue require concerted effort. They have to be in closely interwoven with local realities and needs — be it at the country, community or individual level. The example of interactive radio formats in Niger illustrate
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Avoiding the news to participate in society? The longitudinal relationship between news avoidance and civic engagement
Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research, volume 48, issue 4 (2023), pp. 551-562
"Lower levels of news use are generally understood to be associated with less political engagement among citizens. But while some people simply have a low preference for news, others avoid the news intentionally. So far little is known about the relationship between active news avoidance and civic e
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External Monitoring of Coercive Agents and the Murders of Journalists: A Cross-National Study of Journalist Killings, 1992–2018
Human Rights Quarterly, volume 45, issue 1 (2023), pp. 32-61
"Targeted attacks on journalists are internationally condemned crimes, which not only undermine freedom of expression, but also symbolize an utter disregard for basic human rights. Yet, murders of journalists occur in all types of regimes, whether autocratic or democratic. This article explores the
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Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South
Inspiring Practice
Top Insights
Lanham et al.: Lexington Books (2023), vii, 284 pp.
"Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South brings together voices from the margins to engage in dialogue about common social change issues in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This book argues that resistance and social movements, expressed in music and songs and exchang
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Comunicação e resistência: Práticas de liberdade para a cidadania
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2022), 212 pp.
"Este livro apresenta as discussões promovidas no âmbito do 44º Ciclo de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação, evento integrante do 44º Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências da Comunicação, realizado de 4 a 9 de outubro de 2021, em modo virtual, pela Universidade Católica de Pernambuco. Em
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Deploying the Common Social Accountability Platform to Support Rift Valley Institute (RVI)’s Somali Dialogue Platform in Promoting Public Dialogue on Elections and Amplifying Citizen’s Voices in Political Processes
Nairobi: Africa’s Voices Foundation (2022), vii, 45 pp.
"Africa's Voices Foundation in partnership with Rift Valley institute (RVI)'s Somali Dialogue Platform implemented a 3-month project between February 8th - May 7th 2022. The project promoted public dialogue around elections so as to understand citizens' perspectives on Somalia's national elections.
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News Media Access for Civil Society Actors During Democratisation Processes: The Case of the Transitional Justice Campaign in Uruguay
Journalism Studies, volume 23, issue 16 (2022), pp. 2038-2056
"Theoretical scholarship on media democratisation neglects the role of representing groups in civil society, which in new democracies emerging from authoritarian regimes are frequently marginalised. These groups may also contest the form of democracy that has been implemented, and the way in which i
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You Are What You Read: Media, Identity, and Community in the 2020 Belarusian Uprising
Post-Soviet Affairs, volume 38, issue 1-2 (2022), pp. 88-106
"The movement that mobilized to oppose Alyaksandr Lukashenka in August 2020 was notable for its ability to bridge divisions of social class, geography, age, and identity. Almost uniquely among post-Soviet revolutionary movements, the Belarusians who rose up were not divided from those who did not al
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Resistências compartilhadas: Comunicação, liberdade e cidadania
São Paulo: Intercom – Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Interdisciplinares da Comunicação (2021), 372 pp.
People, Power, Truth: Human Rights, Civil Society & the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa
Inspiring Practice
Kalmar: Consortium to Promote Human Rights, Civic Freedoms and Media Development (CHARM) Africa;Fojo Media Institute;Civicus;Civil Rights Defenders (2021), 88 pp.
"Journalists alone cannot save journalism, and civil society activists and human rights defenders alone cannot defend civil space. This is why multi-stakeholder coalitions, as well as regional and international networks, constitute an essential pathway to identify and deliver solutions to the comple
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Medios y ciudadanía: Enfoques para un periodismo de cambio
Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 68 pp.
"En los artículos se destaca el papel del periodismo comunitario en la construcción de la ciudadanía y la democracia, la importancia del periodismo cívico en la experiencia de Radio Quillabamba, se averigua sobre las implicancias de la relación entre periodismo y medio ambiente. También se ana
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Narrativas y públicos en los medios: Enfoques para un periodismo de cambio
Lima: Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya;Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 88 pp.
Teaching Media Policy in Africa: A Handbook for Educators
Key Guidance
Windhoek: Namibia Media Trust (2021), 149 pp.
"This handbook enables media educators throughout Africa to raise awareness and impact the media ecology on a national and regional basis. National, regional and international media environments are crucial for the attainment of the sustainable development and the protection of human rights. This is
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La radiodiffusion au Brésil : La place sociopolitique et culturelle de la radio communautaire à l’ère d’Internet
RadioMorphoses, volume 5-6 (2021), 14 pp.
"Au Brésil, la radio a toujours joué un rôle clé dans les principaux événements du pays ; cet important moyen de communication pour les Brésiliens reproduit toutefois les contradictions et les complexités de l’ensemble de la société, dans un contexte marqué par les inégalités sociales
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Data-Driven Advocacy Midterm Performance Evaluation
Washington, DC: USAID (2021), xii, 89 pp.
"Since August 2017, USAID/Tanzania’s five-year Data-Driven Advocacy (DDA) Activity has sought to improve and sustain Tanzanian civil society’s ability to advocate for and influence policy on key national human rights issues using higher-quality data and information to drive results. Implemented
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Engagement: The New Paradigm for Audience Research
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 299-316
"Audience research remains a fractured discipline and this continues to hinder its development into a fully-fledged academic field. There are many reasons for this – historic, philosophical, structural, epistemological and methodological – that are discussed in the course of this essay. However,
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Explicating Engagement: An Exploratory Mapping and Critical Discussion of a Contested Concept
Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 18, issue 1 (2021), pp. 244-265
"With the diffusion of the internet, media and communication research witnessed the emergence of a new term, ‘engagement’. Although, the term is widely used it is poorly defined and in need of explication. Through semantic network analysis, the analysis shows how traditions, as varied as audienc
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Radio Drama as a Tool for Activism in South Africa: The Case of 'Plague in the Time of King Kapital and Queen Corona'
Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media, volume 19, issue 1 (2021), pp. 59-77
"How can sound be utilized as a tool for political conscientization? COVID-19 has disrupted face-to-face organizing tactics for progressive movements globally, making it necessary to branch out to more mediated forms of grassroots political organizing. In this article, we explore how sound might be
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