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The Routledge companion to digital media and children

Lelia Green; Donell Holloway; Kylie Stevenson; Tama Leaver; Leslie Haddon (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2021), xxv, 603 pp., illustr., tables, index

ISBN 978-1-138-54434-5 (hbk); 978-1-351-00410-7 (ebook)

"This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challen... more

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Regardless of frontiers: global freedom of expression in a troubled world

Lee C. Bollinger; Agnès Callamard (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xxiv, 409 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-231-19698-7 (hbk); 978-0-231-19699-4 (pbk)

"This volume brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and which actors and institutions have contributed to their diffusion. The contributors also consider ongoing a... 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

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Study on internet shutdowns in Africa, 2021

Sigi Waigumo Mwanzia; Victor Kapiyo; Odanga Madung

African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) (2021), 34 pp.

"Between 2016 and 2021, 68 shutdowns have been documented in 29 African countries. This demonstrates that government-mandated internet disruptions are an established norm in the region, despite very little scientific or social evidence demonstrating their effectiveness. A number of pointers and fact... more

Le digital au secours de l'Afrique: penser une économie numérique au service du développement

Sophonie Koboude

Éditions Anovi (2021), 116 pp.

Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW)

Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.

ISBN 978-3-946426-28-8

"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si... 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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Teaching media policy in Africa: a handbook for educators

Sandra Roberts; Albert Van Houten

Windhoek: Namibia Media Trust (2021), 149 pp.

ISBN 978-99916-992-1-9 CC BY-SA

"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... more

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Making open development inclusive: lessons from IDRC research

Matthew L. Smith; Ruhiya Kristine Seward (eds.)

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), xiv, 498 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-262-53911-1 (pbk); 9781552505953 (ebook) CC BY

"Making Open Development Inclusive: Lessons from IDRC Research focuses on the connection between openness and inclusion in global development. It brings together the latest research that cuts across a wide variety of political, economic, and social arenas - from governance to education to entreprene... more

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Are indigenous voices being heard? A study on the state of indigenous community broadcasting in 19 countries ;Voces indígenas. ¿Están siendo escuchadas? Estudio sobre el estado de la radiodifusión comunitaria indígena en 19 países

José Manuel Ramos Rodríguez

Cambridge, MA; Toronto: Cultural Survival; World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2020), 135 pp.

"Indigenous Peoples have been excluded from accessing media for many reasons, including their geographic location, languages, and legal barriers. Indigenous Peoples living in isolated areas have little physical access tu urban-centred media. Similarly, a lack of awareness of human rights, freedoms, ... more

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Mediated sociability: audience participation and convened citizen engagement in interactive broadcast shows in Africa

International journal of communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 2985-3006

CC BY-NC-ND

"This article examines what drives audience participation in interactive broadcast shows, with implications for the democratic potential of these shows as spaces of citizen engagement and public discussion. It makes three contributions, the first two to audience and media studies and the last to pol... more

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Alternate realities, alternate internets: African feminist research for a feminist internet

Neema Iyer; Bonnita Nyamwire; Sandra Nabulega

Association for Progressive Communications (APC); International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2020), 50 pp.

"For the past decade, internet connectivity has been praised for its potential to close the gender gap in Africa. Among the many benefits of digitalization, digital tools enable groups that are marginalized across the intersections of gender, race, sex, class, religion, ability and nationality to pr... more

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ICT aid flows from China to African countries: a communication network perspective

Rong Wang; François Bar; Yu Hong

International journal of communication, volume 14 (2020), pp. 1-25

CC BY-NC-ND

"The challenge in evaluating China’s foreign aid has always been the unavailability of reliable data sets. This study constitutes the first analysis of the AidData data set from a communication network perspective. It examines China’s development aid to Africa in the ICT sector from 2000 to 2014... more

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Mobile internet connectivity 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa factsheet

GSMA (2020), 2 pp.

"There are now more than 3.8 billion mobile internet subscribers globally, representing 49% of the world’s population. However, adoption has not been equitable, with mobile internet adoption standing at 26% in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2019. The region accounts for almost half of the global... more

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A rights-based framework for minority and indigenous languages in Africa: from endangerment to revitalization

Silvia Quattrini

Minority Rights Group International (2019), 23 pp.

ISBN 978-1-912938-21-6 CC BY-NC-ND

"It is estimated that between 6,000 and 7,000 languages are currently spoken worldwide, of which approximately half, if not more, will disappear by the end of this century ... Language plays a central role not only for the preservation of identity and culture, but also in matters of non-discriminati... more

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Despots and disruptions: five dimensions of internet shutdowns in Africa

Kampala: Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) (2019), 12 pp.

CC BY-NC-ND

"The more undemocratic the system of government, the more likely it is that the Internet will be shut down. To prove this, the authors refer to the annual Democracy Index of the British consulting firm Economist Intelligence Unit of the news magazine of the same name. According to the index, 17 of t... more

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State of internet freedom in Africa 2019: mapping trends in government internet controls, 1999-2019

Kampala: Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) (2019), 47 pp.

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"The study has found that African countries have broadened the range of measures that govern the use of digital communications including the internet. The implementation of oppressive laws and regulations is on the rise in the countries under review. It is evident that countries are using legislatio... 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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Mapping the digital divide in Africa: a mediated analysis

Bruce Mutsvairo; Massimo Ragnedda (eds.)

Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2019), 278 pp., 5 figures, 5 tables, index

ISBN 978-94-6298-685-5

"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app... more