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Advancing meaningful connectivity: towards active and participatory digital societies

Teddy Woodhouse

Washington, DC: Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation (2022), 27 pp.

CC BY

"This report advances the Meaningful Connectivity framework as a way to support more inclusive societies and strengthen digital economies. It measures the gap in the number of people with just basic internet access and those with meaningful connectivity and examines what this digital divide means fo... more

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The chilling: a global study of online violence against women journalists

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.

ISBN 979-8-218-09201-6 CC BY-NC-SA

"Online violence against women journalists is one of the most serious contemporary threats to press freedom internationally. It aids and abets impunity for crimes against journalists, including physical assault and murder. It is designed to silence, humiliate, and discredit. It inflicts very real ps... more

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The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

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Media governance: a cosmopolitan critique

Sarah Anne Ganter; Hanan Badr (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp., index

ISBN 978-3-031-05020-6 (ebook); 978-3-031-05022-0 (pbk)

"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap... more

Indigenous language for development communication in the Global South

Abiodun Salawu; Tshepang Bright Molale; Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed; Mohammad Sahid Ullah (eds.)

Lexington Books (2022), 310 pp.

ISBN 978-1-666912029

"This edited collection brings together voices from the margins in underrepresented regions of the Global South, within the context of scholarship focusing on indigenous languages and development communication. Contributors bring together research from often-overlooked parts of the world to engage i... more

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Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
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Nic Newman; Richard Fletcher; Craig T. Robertson; Kirsten Eddy; Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp., many diagr.

ISBN 978-1-907384-98-1

"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr... more

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UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Nigeria: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.

"Media and information literacy is paramount to empower the population, and especially the youth, with the capacity of critical thinking and in providing quality information on traditional and social media platforms. During the period of 2018-2021, UNESCO worked towards achieving this goal through t... more

Radio at the edges: perspectives on alternative, community and pirate radio

Matt Mollgaard (ed.)

Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022), xiii, 210 pp.

ISBN 978-1-5275-8185-2

"This collection engages with alternatives to mainstream radio systems, histories and concepts. It addresses the impacts and challenges that alternative, community and pirate radio represent." (Publisher)

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Perceptions on community media for effective acculturation in Nigerian indigenous languages

Chimaobi Onwukwe

Community development journal, volume 56, issue 3 (2021), pp. 524-540

"This study examined perceptions on the effectiveness, attendant challenges and remedies of community media for effective acculturation in Nigerian languages. The qualitative survey design was adopted with focus group discussions and key informant interviews of 50 purposively chosen informants. It ... more

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Investigative journalism

Hugo de Burgh; Paul Lashmar (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2021) 3rd ed., xvi, 299 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-367-18248-9 (pbk); 978-0-429-06028-1 (ebook)

"This 3rd edition maps the new world of Investigative Journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energized journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences in politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstra... more

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Fake news is bad news: hoaxes, half-truths and the nature of today's journalism

Ján Visnovský; Jana Radosinská (eds.)

Intech Open (2021), 260 pp.

ISBN 978-1-83962-422-3 (online); 978-1-83962-421-6 (print); 978-1-83962-423-0 (pdf)

"The publication is focused on the ways fake news, disinformation, misinformation and hateful statements are spread across society, predominantly within the online environment. Its main ambition is to offer an interdisciplinary body of scholarly knowledge on fake news, disinformation and propaganda ... more

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Routledge handbook of African media and communication studies

Winston Mano; Viola C. Milton (eds.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xiv, 286 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-351-27320-6 (ebook); 978-1-138-57477-9 (print)

"The book goes beyond critiques of the marginality of African approaches in media and communication studies to offer scholars the theoretical and empirical toolkit needed to start building critical corpora of African scholarship and theory that places the everyday worlds, needs and uses of Africans ... more

Afrika

Marco Moerschbacher (ed.)

Paderborn et al.: Schöningh (2021), x, 615 pp.

ISBN 978-3-506-77701-0 (hbk); 9783657777013 (online)

"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a... more

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Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 19 pp.

"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of... more

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Media and COVID-19 in West Africa: Nigeria

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) (2020), 8 pp.

"Generally, the relevant authorities in Nigeria have, to a large extent, been proactive with press briefings and national addresses since the outbreak of the pandemic. However, reporters have realised that they are often unable to access information beyond what is said in the briefings. Officials so... more

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Routledge handbook of environmental journalism

David B. Sachsman; JoAnn Myer Valenti (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 421 pp., illustrations, index

ISBN 978-1-138-47850-3 (hbk); 978-1-351-06840-6 (online)

"An increasing number of media platforms - from newspapers and television to Internet social media networks - are the major providers of indispensable information about the natural world and environmental risk. Despite the dramatic changes in the news industry that have tended to reduce the number o... more

Transnational media: concepts and cases

Suman Mishra; Rebecca Kern-Stone (eds.)

Newark: Wiley & Sons (2019), ix, 246 pp.

ISBN 978-1-119-39460-0

"Transnational Media: Concepts and Cases provides a clear and engaging overview of media communication from a global and a region-based perspective. Rather than focusing on just complex theories and industry-specific analyses, this unique book offers an inclusive, comparative approach to both journa... more

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Entrepreneurial journalism in Africa: opportunities, challenges and risks for media in the digital age. Learnings from a conference held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018

Francis Mdlongwa (ed.)

Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.

ISBN 978-0-9870243-5-0

" ... there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Accr... more

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Social media and politics in Africa: democracy, censorship and security

Maggie Dwyer; Thomas Molony (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 299 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-78699-497-4

"Drawing on over a dozen new empirical case studies – from Kenya to Somalia, South Africa to Tanzania – this collection explores how rapidly growing social media use is reshaping political engagement in Africa. But while social media has often been hailed as a liberating tool, the book demonstra... more

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Perspectives on political communication in Africa

Bruce Mutsvairo; Beschara Karam (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xxiii, 272 pp., 12 illustr., index

ISBN 978-3-319-62057-2 (ebook); 978-3-319-62056-5 (print)

"Focusing on sub-Saharan Africa and occasionally drawing comparisons with other regions of the world, this book critically addresses the development of the field focusing on the current opportunities and challenges within the African context. By using a wide variety of case studies that include Moza... more

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022 Quick overview

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
Quick overview