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A Case of Double Standards? Audience Attitudes to Professional Norms on Local and English Language Radio News Programmes in Ghana

Audrey Gadzekpo, Abena Animwaa Yeboah-Banin, Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2020), pp. 3-22

"This article explores the reception practices of multi-lingual audiences in Ghana, focusing on their views on the different norms and approaches of local language and English language radio newscasts. Using data from a convenience sample of 1000 radio listeners in five Ghanaian cosmopolitan cities ... more

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Quranic App Practices Among Multilingual Muslim Youth in Denmark

Line Møller Daugaard

Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies, volume 13, issue 4 (2019), pp. 43-69

"This article sheds light on a set of religious literacy practices which have so far received very little scientific attention, namely ‘quranic app practices’. Quranic app practices are conceptualized as ways of engaging with the Quran through religious apps on smartphones or tablets. The articl ... more

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The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Languages and Communities

Gabrielle Hogan-Brun, Bernadette O'Rourke (eds.)

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 612 pp.

"This Handbook is an in-depth appraisal of the field of minority languages and communities today. It presents a wide-ranging, coherent picture of the main topics, with key contributions from international specialists in sociolinguistics, policy studies, sociology, anthropology and law. Individual ch ... more

Transnationalizing Radio Research: New Approaches to an Old Medium

Golo Föllmer, Alexander Badenoch (eds.)

Bielefeld: transcript (2018), 313 pp.

¿Cómo abordan los medios la educación en el Perú?

Paola Baltazar, Roberto Bustamante, Raúl Castro, José Luis Gargurevich

Lima: Proyecto Fortalecimiento de la Gestión de la Educación en el Perú (FORGE);Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) (2017), 96 pp.

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African Print Cultures: Newspapers and Their Publics in the Twentieth Century

Derek R. Peterson, Emma Hunter, Stephanie Newell (eds.)

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2017), x, 447 pp.

"The first of four thematic sections, “African Newspaper Networks,” considers the work that newspaper editors did to relate events within their locality to happenings in far-off places. This work of correlation and juxtaposition made it possible for distant people to see themselves as fellow tra ... more

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The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia

Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller

Bristol, UK; Chicago, USA: intellect (2017), x, 318 pp.

Soluciones tecnológicas en educación intercultural bilingüe en escuelas y comunidades de los Andes peruanos

Emma Rotondo

International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) (2015), 44 pp.

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In the Service of the Public: Functions and Transformation of Media in Developing Countries
Inspiring Practice

Jan Lublinski, Petra Berner, Merjam Wakili (eds.)

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2014), 300 pp.

"This study constitutes the attempt to draw some initial conclusions from the work conducted by DW Akademie and other media development organizations in the past. It aims at a better understanding of which public service functions former state broadcasters can provide at all and which approaches of ... media development actors have proved to be successful. Reforming of state mouthpieces into public service media can indeed be achieved. This is one of the most important findings of this study. DW Akademie researchers here present examples of media outlets that fulfill their public service remit of creating a public sphere and supporting integration to a substantial degree. Even among the success stories, not all the media outlets studied here have adopted a public service ethos to its full extent. Their work, however, improved considerably. In assisting reform, media development actors were thus able to enhance the public’s freedom of expression as well as its access to information – two basic human rights we see as important prerequisites for peace and democracy. On the other hand, this study shows how difficult and complex transformation is. State media are often highly politicized. Successful transformation, therefore, requires support of a lot of different actors: the political elite, civil society, the management of the broadcaster, its staff, and last but certainly not least, the public as a whole. It is vital that media development actors identify windows of opportunity and profit from them in order to propel change forward. At the same time, this study demonstrates that media development organizations have to think beyond their traditional fields of expertise: capacity development and newsroom consultancy. A much broader approach is needed if substantial and sustainable development is to be achieved. DW Akademie is currently implementing a new, more complex strategy for successful media development cooperation that takes this into account. Political and legal frameworks have become a strategic area of activity. Other equally important areas comprise qualifications, professionalism, and economic sustainability of the media sector, participation in society, and digital change. With regard to public broadcasting, political and legal frameworks are especially important in order to ensure editorial independence of former state broadcasters. Furthermore, media development actors have to engage more in organizational development. Therefore, at the end of this study, we dedicate a whole chapter to this question. This study of selected media outlets from twelve countries does not attempt to provide a final answer to the question of successful public service transformation. It aims at giving an overview of what has been achieved in practical work in this field in the course of the past years. More research is needed to understand which steps of reform are needed for a genuine transformation that is sustainable in the long term. The media are undergoing crucial developments. Digital change, convergence, and social media have increased pluralism of opinion substantially in many parts of the world. At the same time, the media face new challenges with respect to their economic sustainability. The notion of public service media that offer a model for providing journalistic quality without financial dependence deserves further thought." (Preface) more

Names U Ma Puce: Multilingual Texting in Senegal

Kristin Vold Lexander

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2011), 16 pp.

"Multilingualism is an important aspect of African urban life, also of the lives of students in Dakar. While the students usually write monolingual texts, mainly in French, their text messages involve the use of African languages too, in particular of the majority language Wolof, as well as Arabic a ... more

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Language in South Asia

Braj B. Kachru, S. N. Sridhar, Yamuna Kachru (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008), xxiv, 608 pp.

"Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teachin ... more

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Wer spricht: Interkulturelle Arbeit und Mehrsprachigkeit im Kontext freier Medien

Fiona Steinert, Helmut Peissl, Katja Weiss (eds.)

Klagenfurt: Drava (2006), 88 pp.

"Mehrsprachige Gesellschaften brauchen mehrsprachige Öffentlichkeiten. Was leisten Freie Medien als Foren der Sprachenvielfalt, und wie spiegelt sich die Debatte um Interkulturalität in ihrem Umfeld wider?" (Verlagsbeschreibung)

Media in Multilingual Societies: Freedom and Responsability

Ana Karlsreiter (ed.)

Vienna: OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2003), 168 pp.

La acción comunitaria en el contexto del programa de educación bilingüe intercultural por radio: Una experiencia de Fe y Alegría en Paraguay

Federación Internacional de Fe y Alegría (2002), 36 pp.