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Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
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Marie-Soleil Frère

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 347 pp.

"This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different ... more

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Transformations in Afghan Media and Culture Through Cycles of Upheaval

Wazhmah Osman

Current History, volume 121, issue 834 (2022), pp. 135-140

"This article traces how the Afghan cultural, media, and arts sectors have gone through cycles of boom and bust in tandem with the country’s tumultuous history in recent decades, starting with the prewar golden era in the 1960s and 1970s, then focusing on the post-9/11 internationally funded media ... more

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Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media

Jacob Mchangama

New York: Basic Books (2022), 514 pp.

"In 'Free Speech', Jacob Mchangama traces the long, contested history of a powerful idea, beginning with its origins in the intellectual ferment of classical Athens, where it enabled the development of the world's first democracy. Through captivating stories of defenders of free speech throughout hi ... more

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Las revoluciones de la comunicación. Información, conocimiento y cultura: Resistencia y hegemonía

Luciano Sanguinetti

La Plata: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Periodismo y Comunicación Social (2021), 385 pp.

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The Media-Democracy Paradox in Ghana: Rethinking Political Communication in an African Context

W. S. Dzisah

Bristol: intellect (2020), 218 pp.

"This original new book researches into the praxis of this democracy and its media, delving into Ghana's evolvement, media practice, leadership aspirations, pressure group politics and ethnic and tribal cleavages. Written in accessible language it will provide valuable source material for readers in ... more

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Netz-Dinge: 30 Geschichten - vom Telegrafenkabel bis zur Datenbrille

Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2019), 171 pp.

"Die Vernetzung unseres Alltags schreitet immer schneller voran: Ist das Smartphone für viele zum unverzichtbaren Begleiter geworden, geht der Trend längst zum "Internet der Dinge", das etwa mittels Sprachassistenten den Menschen nicht nur unterstützt, sondern mitsamt seiner Umgebung unablässig ... more

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A History of Journalism and Communication in China

Yunze Zhao, Ping Sun

London; New York: Routledge (2018), 176 pp.

"Arranged in chronological order mainly, this book examines the initial development of Chinese journalism in ancient times, which from then manifested strong political attributes. After the Opium War in 1840, missionaries and businessmen from the West started to set up newspapers and periodicals in ... more

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Twinning Social Memory and Social Imaginary: Challenges for East African Media Policies

Ullamaija Kivikuru

African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 3-4 (2017), pp. 50-73

"The article discusses the significance of the past in the planning of media policies in two neighbouring countries in Africa, namely Kenya and Tanzania. The theoretical frame is composed of four concepts: social imaginary, collective memory, domestication, and liminality. The scrutiny starts from t ... more

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Everyday Media Culture in Africa: Audiences and Users

Wendy Willems, Winston Mano (eds.)

London: Routledge (2017), 260 pp.

"This volume examines the lived experiences of Africans and their interaction with different kinds of media: old and new, state and private, elite and popular, global and national, material and virtual. By offering a comparative, critical and largely qualitative account of audiences and users across ... a range of national contexts in different regions of Africa, the book examines media through the voices and perspectives of those engaging with it rather than reducing audiences and users to numbers and statistics, ready to be exploited as potential target markets or as political constituencies. The critical, qualitative research perspective adopted in this book enables us to gain a better understanding of how African viewers, listeners and users make sense of a range of media forms; what role these play in their everyday lives and what audience and user engagement can tell us about how citizens perceive the state, how they imagine themselves in the wider world and how they relate to each other. The book argues that the experiences of audiences and engagements of users with a range of media—newspapers, radio, television, magazines, internet, mobile phones, social media—are always grounded in particular contexts, worldviews and knowledge systems of life and wisdom: ‘It is akin to the tortoise. The tortoise never leaves its shell behind. It carries it wherever it goes’ (Chivaura 2006: 221). African media audiences and users carry their contexts and cultural repertoires in the same way a tortoise carries its shell. Thus far, the bulk of academic research on media and communication in Africa has addressed the policy and regulatory aspects as well as the relation between media institutions and the state (Willems 2014a). While studies on media, democratization and press freedom are invaluable, the ways in which ordinary people make sense of, and relate to, media in their everyday lives are largely left beyond consideration. As Barber (1997: 357) has pointed out, ‘[w]hat has not yet been sufficiently explored is the possibility that specific African audiences have distinctive, conventional modes and styles of making meaning, just as performers/speakers do. We need to ask how audiences do their work of interpretation’." (Page 4) more

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China's Media in the Emerging World Order
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Hugo de Burgh

Buckingham: University of Buckingham Press (2017), 259 pp.

"China is challenging the mighty behemoths, Google and Facebook, and creating alternative New Media. 750 million people are active on its Social Mediascape and there are a billion mobile phones deploying the innovative apps with which the Chinese conduct their lives. Though late starters, already fo ... more

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The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media
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Tom Thatcher, Chris Keith, Raymond F. Person, Elsie R. Stern, Judith Odor (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xviii, 479 pp.

"The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the pote ... more

Journalismes d'Afrique
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Marie-Soleil Frère

Louvain-la-Neuve: De Boeck (2016), 386 pp.

"Cet ouvrage explore les systèmes médiatiques d’Afrique subsaharienne francophone et propose des clés pour aborder leurs spécificités via nombre d’éléments historiques, politiques, sociologiques, juridiques, économiques et technologiques, indispensables pour les replacer dans leur contex ... more

La tutelle politique dans la production de l'information de presse en Afrique francophone: Le cas du Congo-Brazzaville

Pierre Minkala-Ntadi

Paris: L'Harmattan (2016), 189 pp.

"Ce livre traite de l'évolution de la presse africaine francophone dans un contexte de mutations sociopolitiques récurrentes. S'appuyant sur le cas particulier du Congo-Brazzaville, l'analyse démontre clairement comment les mutations sociopolitiques induisent des logiques sociales de la communica ... more

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Das Evangelium und die digitale Welt: Was wir aus der Geschichte für die Zukunft der Medien lernen können

Matthias Gülzow

Hannover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus (LVH) (2016), 160 pp.

"Das Evangelium als ein spezifischer Deutungszusammenhang hat zu allen Zeiten zur Kommunikation herausgefordert. Mit den jeweils neuesten Techniken und durch alle verfügbaren Kanäle wurde die Frohe Botschaft von der Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen in alle Welt gesendet. Matthias Gülzow stellt diachr ... more

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Historical Entanglements, Conflicting Agendas and Visions: Radio Botswana and the Making of a National Radio Station

Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Brilliant Mhlanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 1 (2016), pp. 55-73

"Botswana’s government as one of the celebrated postcolonial democracies in Southern Africa continues to have the state owning and controlling the media – in particular, broadcast media. The history of government-owned and controlled media in Botswana can be understood through colonial lenses � ... more

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Postcolonial Studies Meets Media Studies: A Critical Encounter

Kai Merten, Lucia Krämer (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2016), 262 pp.

"The book brings together experts from Media and Communication Studies with Postcolonial Studies scholars to illustrate how the two fields may challenge and enrich each other. Its essays introduce readers to selected topics including »Media Convergence«, »Transcultural Subjectivity«, »Hegemony� ... more

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