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Memory and erasure: Gukurahundi and the culture of violence in Zimbabwe

Mandlenkosi Mpofu; Percy F. Makombe (eds.)

Bulawayo; Harare: Centre for Innovation and Technology (CITE); Weaver Press (2022), xxxi, 153 pp., bibliogr. p.137-153

ISBN 978-1-77922-419-4 (pbk); 978-1-77922-421-7 (pdf)

"Memory and Erasure brings together young and established Zimbabwean scholars and activists who explore with fresh eyes the failure to overcome the terrible legacies of this period. At its heart is recognition that justice cannot be achieved while Gukurahundi’s perpetrators remain in power and sti... more

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Explaining international media development: building blocks for an analytical framework based on institutional logics

Ines Drefs

Journal of applied journalism & media studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 141-161

"The academic study of media development as a field of practice and international cooperation has received quite some impetus in the last couple of years. Theory-building in this research field, however, seems to be stagnating. The explanatory power of established theories such as modernization, dep... more

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

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 5 pp.

"To ensure the survival of Afghanistan’s media sector after the regime change, reprogrammed funding from the MDP and the Global Media Defence Fund (GMDF) provided emergency support t o independent Afghan media outlets that had seen their viability disrupted as a result of the crisis. Through this,... more

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The new Arab journalist: mission and identity in a time of turmoil

Lawrence Pintak

London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp., tables, bibliogr. p.267-272, index

ISBN 978-1-84885-098-9 (pbk); 978-0-75561-064-8 (online)

"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in... more

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Edelman Trust Barometer 2022: global report

Edelman (2022), 72 pp.

"... Government and media fuel a cycle of distrust: Nearly one out of every two respondents view government and media as divisive forces in society—48% and 46%, respectively. Furthermore, government leaders and journalists are seen as the least trusted societal leaders today, with less than half o... more

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Critiquing participatory video: experiences from around the world

Elizabeth-Jane Milne

Area, volume 48, issue 4 (2016), pp. 401-451

"Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in participatory video, but accounts have often been celebratory and uncritical. At the same time there has been an ever-increasing multiplicity of interpretations, thus making participatory video seem ‘nebulous’ and ‘perplexing’. This ... more

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Open science for peacebuilding toolkit

Obialunanma Nnaobi; Kersti Ruth Wissenbach; Geraldine de Bastion; Obasegun Ayodele; Ana Rocío Sandres (eds.)

Berlin: Global Innovation Gathering (GIG); Vilsquare (2022), 43 pp., illustr.

CC BY-NC-SA

"The aim of this Open Science and Peacebuilding Toolkit is to provide an open, living collection of resources for innovation hubs operating in conflict or post-conflict environments, creating a joint framework for open science and peacebuilding in action. It seeks to enable makerspaces across the wo... more

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Social networking, social media and complex emergencies: an annotated bibliography

Andrew Skuse; Tait Brimacombe

Adelaide: Applied Communication Collaborative Research Unit (ACCRU) University of Adelaide; Australian Civil-Military Centre (ACMC) (2013), 70 pp.

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"This annotated bibliography compiles both peer-reviewed literature, typically sourced from academic journals, as well as a range of opinion and technical resources drawn from agencies that have a humanitarian mandate. It is important to note that this annotated bibliography does not seek to present... more

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African Media Development Initiative: Zimbabwe. Research findings and conclusions

Rashweat Mukundu

London: BBC World Service Trust (2006), 82 pp.

ISBN 1-906086-16-8

"There are a number of media players in Zimbabwe, in the private and state media, NGOs and training institutions, who have a keen interest in the development of the media in Zimbabwe. The majority of interviewees see the enactment of Zimbabwe’s media laws as the key change that has taken place ove... more

Raising the civil dead: prisoners and community radio

Heather Anderson

New York: Peter Lang (2012), 275 pp.

ISBN 978-3-0343-1045-1 (pbk)

"Internationally, radio that operates for, or by, prisoners exists almost exclusively within the community radio context. Little has been documented about the genre so far. Raising the Civil Dead seeks to address this lack of information. It examines prisoners' radio as citizens' media, connecting d... more

How “insiders and outsiders” perceive media development work: reflections on their relationship and cooperation

Mira Keßler

Global media journal - German edition, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), 18 pp.

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"This article tries to show that media development work could be based less on the idea of cooperation, but rather be perceived as a dominance of foreign funding countries and their politics. Taking this view, the donor organisations’ perceived dominance in controlling the entire process and meeti... more

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Public relations handbook

Emamul M. Haque

Dhaka: Management and Resources Development Initiative (MRDI) (2007), 57 pp.

ISBN 984-300-000808-5

"This PR Handbook has been designed to provide professionals handling public relations and communication activities of corporate houses with a practical and readily useable guide to initiate a public relations program. Numbers of professional tips and issues have been extracted from various professi... more

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Ann Kite yo pale: let them speak. Best practice and lessons learned in communication with disaster affected communities: Haiti 2010

Imogen Wall; Yves Gerald Chéry

BBC World Service Trust; Internews Europe (2011), 88 pp., abbrev. p.86, bibliogr. p.87

"This publication is an important contribution to literature on disaster and humanitarian crisis communication. It analyses in detail the response to two major but very different emergencies in Haiti: the 2010 earthquake and, later that year, the outbreak of cholera. While humanitarian agencies stil... more

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Conveying truth: independent media in Putin’s Russia

Ann Cooper

Politics and Public Policy Shorenstein Center on Media (2020), 39 pp.

"This study examines the evolution of independent Russian media, from the glasnost era to the pandemic. It describes some of the pandemic coverage and identifies several of the newsrooms that gave Russians reliable, accountability journalism throughout the early months of the crisis. It may seem obv... more

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The state of media freedom and safety of journalists in Africa

Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) (2022), 57 pp.

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"The media in Africa continues to face serious challenges in the execution of its work. The minimal progress in the advancement of press freedom and freedom of expression on the continent has been whitewashed by legislation and actions by some states that continue to hinder the development of a prof... 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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Misinformation across digital divides: theory and evidence from Northern Ghana

Elena Gadjanova; Gabrielle Lynch; Ghadafi Saibu

African affairs, volume 121, issue 483 (2022), pp. 161-

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"Social media misinformation is widely recognized as a significant and growing global problem. Yet, little is known about how misinformation spreads across broader media ecosystems, particularly in areas with varying internet access and connectivity. Drawing on research in northern Ghana, we seek to... more

Global crisis reporting: journalism in the global age

Simon Cottle

Maidenhead: Open University Press (2009), xiv, 199 pp., illustr., glossary p.172-177, bibliogr. p.178-191, index

ISBN 978 0335 22138 7 (pbk); 978 0335 22139 4 (hbk)

"Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age sets out to better understand the media’s role in the circulation and communication of these global challenges to humanity as well as the conflicts and contentions that surround them. Concerned as we are with crises that transcend national bor... more

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How violence shapes religion: belief and conflict in the Middle East and Africa

Ziya Meral

Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp., bibliogr. p.188-209, index

ISBN 978-1-108-45285-4 (pbk); 978-1-108-42900-9 (hbk)

"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro... more

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Using middle-level theory to improve programme and evaluation design

N Cartwright

Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL) (2020), 11 pp.

"Middle-level theory (MLT) has several uses in development planning and evaluation. It helps predict whether a programme can be expected to work in a new setting. It offers insights into what design features are needed for success. IIt provides invaluable information for monitoring to see if the pro... more