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Global Information Society Watch 2009: Focus on Access to Online Information and Knowledge – Advancing Human Rights and Democracy

Alan Finlay (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2009), 231 pp.

"GISWatch has three interrelated goals: surveying the state of the field of information and communications technology (ICT) policy at local and global levels; encouraging critical debate; strengthening networking and advocacy for a just, inclusive information society. Each year the report focuses on ... more

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Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation

Alexander Laban Hinton, Kevin Lewis O'Neill (eds.)

Durham: Duke University Press (2009), 349 pp.

"What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and diverge as the rulers of postgenocidal states attempt to produce a monolithic "truth" about the past ... more

Video in Development
Key Guidance

Rico Lie, Andreas Mandler

Wageningen; Rome: Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA);FAO (2009), 60 pp.

"The book was written mainly to inform rural development professionals, practitioners and decision-makers in a variety of organisations – from NGOs and farmer associations to government departments and research and educational institutions – about the diverse uses of video in development. Specif ... more

Textes juridiques et déontologiques régissant les médias au Burundi

Gérard Ntahe

Paris: Panos Paris (2009), 156 pp.

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L'instruction dans la régulation des médias: Expérience de la Haute Autorité des Médias (HAM)

Jean-Marcel Bosamba Malanga

Kinshasa: Médiaspaul (2009), 109 pp.

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Deference, Dissent, and Dispute Resolution: An Experimental Intervention Using Mass Media to Change Norms and Behavior in Rwanda

Elisabeth Paluck Levy

American Political Science Review, volume 103, issue 4 (2009), pp. 622-644

"Deference and dissent strike a delicate balance in any polity. Insufficient deference to authority may incapacitate government, whereas too much may allow leaders to orchestrate mass violence. Although cross-national and cross-temporal variation in deference to authority and willingness to express ... more

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Local Violence, Global Media: Feminist Analyses of Gendered Representations

Lisa M. Cuklanz, Sujata Moorti (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2009), viii, 276 pp.

"While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabli ... more

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Mobile Phones: The New Talking Drums of Everyday Africa

Mirjam de Bruijn, Francis Nyamnjoh, Inge Brinkman (eds.)

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2009), vii, 173 pp.

"This book is about the many ways in which mobile phones are being appropriated by Africans and how they are transforming and are being transformed by society in Africa. A case study from Karthoum (Sudan) shows, how mobile phones are reshaping relationships in a Muslim society, where they enable wom ... more

Cartooning in Africa
Top Insights

John A. Lent (ed.)

Cresskill: Hampton Press (2009), xi, 383 pp.

"This volume documents from historical and contemporary perspectives, the situations, trends and issues of cartooning in a number of African countries, and profiles the individuals, forms and phenomena that stand out. All types of cartooning are covered, including comic books, comic strips, gag and ... more

Etablierung, Vermittlung und Entzauberung eines Mythos: Die Rolle populärer Medien im Kontext einer Konversionsgeschichte

Beate Rohmann

In: Religion und Massenmedien

Maud E. Sieprath (ed.)

Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), pp. 129-156

"In dem folgenden Artikel soll es exemplarisch um den Aufstieg und Niedergang des westafrikanischen Pastors Dr. Martin Tsala Essomba gehen, dessen beispielhafter Karriereverlauf in nicht unerheblichem Maße durch die populären Medien Buch und Internet beeinflusst wurde. Die als Taschebuchformat ers ... more

L’état de la liberté de la presse en Afrique centrale. Rapport annuel 2009

Donat M'Baya Tshimanga (ed.)

Kinshasa: Journaliste en Danger (JED) (2009), 110 pp.

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Accès aux nouvelles technologies en Afrique et en Asie: TIC et service universel

Annie Chéneau-Loquay (coord.)

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 252 pp.

Peace and Communication in Post-Conflict Africa

Africa Media Review, volume 17, issue 1-2 (2009), pp. 1-126

La caricature et le dessin de presse en Afrique

Paris: L'Harmattan (2009), 239 pp.

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African Digital Media and the Public Sphere

Okoth Fred Mudhai, Wisdom J. Tettey, Fackson Banda (eds.)

New York; Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xv, 260 pp.

"This book examines, from theoretical and empirical perspectives, the claims that new information and communication technologies (ICTs) are catalysts of democratic change in Africa. Contributors do so from optimist, pragmatist-realist, and pessimist stances through analyses of various forms of evide ... more

Diagnostic participatif organisationnel des radios communautaires du Nord – Kivu / RDC

Josua Rév. Kasereka Lusenge

Butembo (R.D. Congo): Réseau Coracon;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2009), 62 pp.

Histoire de la télévision en Afrique noire francophone, des origines à nos jours

Tidiane Dioh

Paris: Karthala (2009), 238 pp.

Code de déontologie et textes juridiques régissant les médias au Rwanda;Media Ethics and Legislation in Rwanda

Jean Paul Kahiyura

Paris: Panos Paris (2009), 188, 159 pp.

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Appui au secteur des médias: Quel bilan pour quel avenir?

Marie-Soleil Frère

In: Réforme au Congo (RDC): attentes et désillusions

Theodore Trefon (ed.)

Paris; Tervuren: L'Harmattan;MRAC (2009), pp. 191-210

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