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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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Language & coloniality: non-dominant languages in the digital landscape

Meital Kupfer; Jason Muyumba

Kampala: Pollicy; Internet Society Foundation (2022), 33 pp., bibliogr. p.26-33

"This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape. This ties into ideas about digital colonialism (Kwett, 2022), wherein hegemonic, or dominant, languages are threatening and jeopardising the ability for local language speakers to expr... 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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Development evaluations in Uganda 2000-2018: a country evaluation map

Timophy Lubanga Howard White et al.

Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2021), v, 80 pp. , 11 tables, bibliogr. p.19-79

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"This CEDIL Synthesis Working Paper is a report on the first of its kind country evaluation map for a single country. The map identifies 617 evaluations in multiple sectors in Uganda. Nearly 60 per cent of the studies contain process evaluation evidence and over 40 per cent are impact evaluations. T... more

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Journalism blocked, information seized: a tale of how internet shutdown crippled media work in Uganda

Unwanted Witness (2021), 21 pp.

"Notably, effective media coverage of the general elections in Uganda was curtailed by the internet shutdown as pointed out by 80% of the respondents. On the whole, the shutdown had negative impact on both the quality and quantity of the news output. For example, Mobile money services were interrupt... more

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Promoting smart policy options in closing the gender digital divide in Uganda

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET); Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA) (2021), 11 pp.

"Although the internet facilitates connection, participation, and engagement, there is a need for new and innovative strategies for closing the gender digital divide in Uganda. A socio-economic, political, and robustic legal approach is needed to close the gender digital divide. This requires regula... 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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The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries

London: GSMA (2020), 43 pp.

"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga... more

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Peace journalism in East Africa: a manual for media practitioners

Fredrick Ogenga (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), vi, 101 pp.

ISBN 978-1-03-233827-9

Other Editions: also published as "Africa peace journalism: a manual for media practitioners in East Africa. Rongo (KE): Rongo University, Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security (CMDPS), 2017

"This publication is the outcome of the “East Africa Regional Peace Journalism Training Workshop” for journalists covering conflict and peacebuilding in East Africa. Organized by Rongo University’s Center for Media, Democracy, Peace, and Security (CMDPS) in partnership with the African Peacebu... 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.

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"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

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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

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Ugandan women online: a quantitative survey on digital literacy in Uganda

Pollicy; Internews (2018), 21 pp.

"We found that knowledge around digital security amongst women in Kampala is quite low. A high proportion of women have been victims of cyberbullying without any obvious routes to seeking justice against perpetrators. There is an urgency for law enforcement and government to hand down stricter penal... more

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

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Information – education – participation: media use among youth in Uganda

Anke Fiedler; Michael Meyen

Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2016), 55 pp., 32 tables, 15 figures

"The present report summarizes the results of a media use study that was conducted in autumn 2014 in the Ugandan districts of Kampala, Mbale, Lira, Pader and Gulu. The study consists of a quantitative survey of more than 650 survey respondents, as well as six qualitative focus groups with a total of... more

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Racism, ethnicity and the media in Africa: mediating conflict in the twenty-first century

Winston Mano (ed.)

London: Tauris (2015), xviii,347 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-78076-706-2 (hbk); 978-1-86064-194-7 (pbk); 978-0-75561-903-0 (online)

"In today's Africa racism and ethnicity have been implicated in serious conflicts - from Egypt to Mali to South Africa - that have cost lives and undermined efforts to achieve national cohesion and meaningful development. Racism, Ethnicity and the Media in Africa sets about rethinking the role of me... more

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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: changing selves, changing societies

Ineke Buskens; Anne Webb (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.

ISBN 978-1-7836-0042-7 (pbk); 978-1-3502-2402-5 (online)

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ICTs and radio in Africa: how the uptake of ICT has influenced the newsroom culture among community radio journalists

Goretti Linda Nassanga; Linje Manyozo; Claudia Lopes

Telematics and informatics, volume 30, issue 3 (2013), pp. 258-266

"This article highlights the influence that new ICTs and Computer Mediated Communication is having on the newsroom cultures among community radio journalists in Africa, especially the use of mobile phones and the internet. The discussion is based on findings from a research study that investigated t... more

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The new age of radio: how ICTs are changing rural radio in Africa

Bartholomew Sullivan

Ottawa: Farm Radio International (2011), 138 pp., abbrev. p.4

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"Low cost, modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile phones, multifunction MP3 recorders, and interactive voice response (IVR) can dramatically increase the capacity of rural radio to help farmers improve food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. Weekly SMS alerts sent to... more

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Access to knowledge in Africa: the role of copyright

Chris Armstrong; Jeremy de Beer; Dick Kawooya; Achal Prabhala; Tobias Schonwetter (eds.)

Claremont: UCT Press; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2010), xvii, 366 pp., abbrev. p.xv-xii, index

ISBN 978-1-55250-490-1 (ebook); 978-1-91989-545-1 (print) CC BY-NC-SA

"Copyright laws and policies cover many controversial issues that are linked to different disciplines, in science, culture, technology, economics, law and other fields. The concepts and issues in the field are also approached from different perspectives and with different political and economic agen... more

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Uganda

George W. Lugalambi; Peter G. Mwesige

Nairobi: Open Society Initiative for East Africa; Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AfriMAP) (2010), x, 145 pp., 18 tables, abbrev. p.v-vi

ISBN 978-1-920355-40-1

"Uganda's broadcast media landscape has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years. While the public broadcaster remains the dominant national player - in terms of reach - in both radio and television, commercial broadcasters have introduced a substantial level of diversity in the industry. Public ... more