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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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Navigating copyright for libraries: purpose and scope

Jessica Coates; Victoria Owen; Susan Reilly (eds.)

Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter Saur (2022), vii, 547 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-3-11-073715-8 (print); 978-3-11-073200-9 (pdf) CC BY

"This book, produced on behalf of the IFLA Copyright and other Legal Matters (CLM) Advisory Committee, provides basic and advanced information about copyright, outlines limitations and exceptions, discusses communicating with users and highlights emerging copyright issues. The chapters note the sign... more

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Collective memory: visual perspectives from Cameroon, Germany, Ghana, Kenya & South Africa

Ebenezar Acquah; Paul-Henri Souvenir Assako Assako; Patrique deGraft-Yankson; Mary Clare Kidenda; Nicola Pauli; Avi Sooful (eds.)

München: kopaed; Exploring Visual Cultures project (2022), 160 pp.

ISBN 978-3-96848-068-8

"The exhibition focuses on how young people envision their identities in their respective countries: what mental images do they collectively have about their life experiences. Thus, this project seeks to present collective memories from different parts of the world in an exhibition that will promote... more

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COVID-19 and the media in Sub-Saharan Africa: media viability, framing and health communication

Carol Azungi Dralega Napakol, Angella

Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2022), xix, 257 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.215-248, index

ISBN 978-1-80382-272-3 (print) / 978-1-80382-271-6 (online)

"The volume helps us deconstruct COVID-19 discourses on crisis communication and media developments focusing on three areas: Media viability, Framing and Health crisis communication. The chapters unpack issues on marginalisation, gender, media sustainability, credibility, priming, trust, sources, be... 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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Vulnerable people and digital inclusion: theoretical and applied perspectives

Panayiota Tsatsou

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 346 pp., 20 illustr.

ISBN 978-3-030-94122-2 (ebook); 978-3-030-94121-5 (hbk)

"This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community informatics and cultural studies, the... 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

Visual cultures of Africa

Mary Clare Kidenda; Lize Kriel; Ernst Wagner (eds.)

Münster; New York: Waxmann (2022), 255 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-3-8309-4523-9 (print); 978-3-8309-9523-4 (ebook) CC BY-NC-SA

"This book Visual Cultures of Africa tells stories of the past, present, and future and how intricately linked cultures and identities are. The book explores the complex histories and discusses how people have used images, objects, and artefacts to describe what is going on in society and give expre... 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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Paulo Freire, 100 years

Adilson Citelli; Ana Cristina Suzina; Thomas Tufte (eds.)

Matrizes, volume 15, issue 3 (2021), pp. 5-284

CC BY-NC-SA

Other Editions: also published in Portuguese

"Only one of Freire’s (1969/1983) books directly and more broadly addresses the scope of communication; it is 'Extension or Communication?' published in 1969, originally in Spanish, during Freire’s exile in Chile. This book became an important reference for the studies and practices of participa... more

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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'

Neroli Price; Laura Garbes

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 ... more

African Media Barometer: South Africa 2021

Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 54 pp.

ISBN 978-99916-991-3-4 CC BY-NC-SA

"Since its adoption on 1 July 2020, the Protection of Personal Information Act has bolstered freedom of expression and the right to privacy. This legislation aims to protect citizens’ personal information and balance the right to privacy with other rights, such as access to information. In Februar... more

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Philanthropy-funded journalism: implications for media independence and editorial credibility in South Africa

Dumisani Moyo

In: Re-imagining communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South issues in media, culture and technology

Hopeton S. Dunn; Dumisani Moyo; William O. Lesitaokana; Shanade Bianca Barnabas (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), pp. 193-216

ISBN 978-3-030-54169-9 (ebook); 978-3-030-54168-2 (hbk); 978-3-030-54170-5 (pbk)

"Over the past decade, philanthropic organisations have poured millions of dollars into different specialised forms of journalism in Africa. While these new specialised forms of journalism are aimed at addressing existing gaps in news reporting on the continent, there has been growing concern over t... 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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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

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Fighting violence against women online: a comparative analysis of legal frameworks in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, South Africa, and Uganda

Chioma Nwaodike; Nerissa Naidoo

Internews; Pollicy (2020), 25 pp.

CC BY-NC-SA

"The highest levels of regulation, from international treaties to constitutions, are unambiguous about creating an environment in which women thrive. However, this egalitarian space must be progressively realized, and one aspect of this work is eliminating discrimination, including in relation to ge... more

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022 Quick overview

Reuters Institute Digital news report 2022
Quick overview