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The BRICS Journalist: Profession and Practice in the Age of Digital Media

Svetlana Pasti, Jyotika Ramaprasad (eds.)

African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2015), pp. 1-138

Moving Stories: International Review of How Media Cover Migration
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Aidan White (ed.)

London: Ethical Journalism Network (EJN) (2015), 106 pp.

"We asked writers and researchers to examine the quality of coverage and to highlight reporting problems as well as good work.The conclusions from many different parts of the world are remarkably similar: journalism under pressure from a weakening media economy; political bias and opportunism that d ... more

Re-Conceptualizing the Analysis of Media Development and Trajectories hereof in Post-Colonial Societies

Ylva Rodny-Gumede

Global Media and Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2015), pp. 131-146

"Using South Africa as a case study, this article presents a new argument for an adaptation of the Comparative Media Systems Model by Hallin and Mancini. The article proposes that factors of race, class and gender and intersections hereof as well as nation-building be added to the model to better su ... more

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Media-State Relations in Emerging Democracies

Adrian Hadland

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2015), x, 261 pp.

Von "De Voortrekkers" bis "Tsotsi"

Martin Botha

Afrika Süd, issue 1 (2015), pp. 35-37

"In Südafrika gibt es seit 120 Jahren Kino und Filmproduktionen. Die südafrikanische Filmindustrie zählt zur ältesten weltweit. Bereits 1895 zog das erste Kinetoscope in Johannesburg Zuschauer an. Jahrzehntelang von der Ideologie des burischen Nationalismus dominiert, muss sich die heutige Films ... more

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New Political Economies of Film Distribution for South Africa's Townships? A Critical Survey of the ReaGilè Concept

Nyasha Mboti, Keyan Tomaselli

Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, volume 29, issue 5 (2015), pp. 621-643

"ReaGilès are pre-fabricated, self-contained, education and entertainment complexes situated on 400m2 sites at local schools or public open spaces consisting of a 60-seat cinema, 30- seat computer and Internet facility, community care and policing centre. These complexes are intended to service his ... more

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New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa

Rosalind I. J. Hackett, Benjamin F. Soares (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2015), xii, 316 pp.

Grassroots Comics as Participatory Communication in the Khwe Community, South Africa

Andrew Dicks

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 109-132

"The subject of this paper is communicating with indigenous communities via grassroots comics, in this case the Khwe San who live in Platfontein in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The study is largely informed by contemporary shifts in development theory, particularly that of participato ... more

Empowering HIV Positive Youths for Treatment Adherence Through Entertainment-Education

Eliza M. Govender, Sertanya Reddy

In: Entertainment-Education for Health Behaviour Change: Issues and Perspectives in Africa

Chima E. Onuekwe (ed.)

Victoria, BC: Friesen Press (2015), pp. 243-261

"Through an action media methodology, various participatory, grassroots, and traditional media methods, such as role plays, movie screenings, and drawing, were used with eight HIV-positive children to empower them to collectively respond to better treatment adherence. The paper demonstrates how, thr ... 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.

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Struggle, Vatican II, and Development Communication Practice

Ruth Teer-Tomaselli, Keyan G. Tomaselli

In: Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

Clifford Christians; Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), pp. 241-254

"This chapter examines the Second Vatican Council (Vatican II) theology as the implicit background to Robert White's studies on development communication. We will then examine White's influence on the Center for Communication, Media and Society's graduate program in development communication." (Page ... more

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Annual Book Publishing Industry Survey 2013: Business Economic Report

Willem Struik, Liam Borgstrom

Publishers' Association of South Africa (PASA);University of Pretoria (2014), 30 pp.

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The Future of Quality News Journalism: A Cross-Continental Analysis

Peter J. Anderson, George Ogola, Michael Williams (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge (2014), xi, 330 pp.

"This new study, a follow-up to 2007’s The Future of Journalism in the Advanced Democracies, includes a comparative analysis of possible alternative business models that may save the future of the quality news business across the developed, intermediate, and developing worlds. Its detailed evaluat ... more

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Online Journalism in Africa: Trends, Practices and Emerging Cultures

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara, Okoth Fred Mudhai, Jason Whittaker (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2014), x, 273 pp.

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'The World is Our Community’: Rethinking Community Radio in the Digital Age

Sarah Helen Chiumbu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 6, issue 3 (2014), pp. 249-264

"In this article, I analyse the changing nature and meaning of ‘community’ in community radio in the digital age using insights from literature on imagined communities, translocality and liminality. I argue that new media technologies are opening up new spaces for community radio that go beyond ... more

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Puppets for Social and Political Change in South Africa

Marie Kruger

International Journal of Social Political and Community Agendas in the Arts, volume 9, issue 3 (2014), pp. 63-73

"This paper explores the characteristics of the puppet which can be utilized to generate critical thinking and informed choices in a troubled society with reference to projects of historical and contemporary importance. As an animated performance object the puppet has an imagined life which enables ... more

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HIV/AIDS Communication in South Africa: Are You Human?

Colin Chasi

London: Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 89 pp.

"Even though sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected by HIV/AIDS in the world, no new theories have been discovered, and questions about life and death are ignored. This book uses certain selected communication practices to offer the foundations of an African theory of communication, applicab ... more