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Promoting Children's Rights: Coverage of Children in South African and Zambian Media

Musa Oswald Rikhotso, Lister Namumba, Kgalalelo L. Morwe, Lethabo T. Dibetso

Johannesburg: Media Monitoring Africa (2013), 41 pp.

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Framing Africa: Portrayals of a Continent in Contemporary Mainstream Cinema

Nigel Eltringham (ed.)

New York: Berghahn (2013), vi, 183 pp.

"The first decade of the 21st century has seen a proliferation of North American and European films that focus on African politics and society. While once the continent was the setting for narratives of heroic ascendancy over self (The African Queen, 1951; The Snows of Kilimanjaro, 1952), military o ... more

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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa

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

Bamenda (CM); Leiden: Langaa;African Studies Centre (2013), 202 pp.

"This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world. How do changes in the possibilities for communication, with the recent hype of mobile technology, influence the social and economic dynamics in Africa’s ... more

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Using Narrative Communication in a Mass-Produced Youth Magazine as an HIV Prevention Intervention

Esther Etkin

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 3-17

"With young people at the epicentre of the HIV epidemic, we need to build upon and find ways of sustaining interventions that place youth at the centre of prevention. This article argues that narrative communication is one such strategy, provided it is part of a comprehensive HIV prevention plan. Na ... more

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Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression in South Africa

Johannesburg: Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI);RAITH Foundation (2013), 32 pp.

"The Freedom of Expression Institute sought to prepare a module on Hate speech in South Africa with the aim of providing basic insight on the framework of hate speech as an aspect of freedom of expression to individuals, communities, social groups and civil society in general. This comes out of the ... more

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The World Internet Project: International Report

Jeffrey I. Cole et al.

Los Angeles: USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Center for the Digital Future, 5th ed. (2013), 87 pp.

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Communication and Media Studies in South Africa: Observations, Impressions and Remarks

Abiodun Salawu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 87-100

"This article offers some self-reflexive comments on Communication and media studies in South Africa. The discipline in South Africa, presents a very exciting and intriguing posture for the simple fact that it allows for diversity– observable in the variety of labels, emphases and curricula. Equal ... more

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Neue Medien

Nah Dran , issue 1 (2013), pp. 12-27

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Social Media and Journalism in Africa

African Journalism Studies, volume 34, issue 1 (2013), pp. 1-122

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Media Interventions

Kevin Howley (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2013), xvi, 430 pp.

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Global Media Ethics: Problems and Perspectives

Stephen J. A. Ward (ed.)

Walden, Mass.; Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (2013), 326 pp.

"Through case studies, analysis of emerging practices, and theoretical discussion, a team of leading journalism and communication experts investigate the impact of major global trends on responsible journalism and lead readers to better understand changes in media ethics. Chapters look at how these ... more

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Memory and Political Change

Aleida Assmann, Linda Shortt (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xviii, 223 pp.

"Examining the role of memory in the transition from totalitarian to democratic systems, this book makes an important contribution to memory studies. It explores memory as a medium of and impediment to change, looking at memory's biological, cultural, narrative and socio-psychological dimensions." ( ... more

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Fight for Democracy: The ANC and the Media in South Africa

Glenda Daniels

Johannesburg: Wits University Press (2012), xiv, 250 pp.

"Glenda Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and their conflictual relationship. She analyses this fraught relationship through various popular media stories, such as Manto and Mondli, Zapiro and Zuma. Her argument ist that there ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: South Africa

Guy Berger, Zikhona Masala

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2012), 120 pp.

"Developments in digital media in South Africa are densely intertwined with political factors. The Government has sought to be the driver of digitization, but it has also caused repeated delays in digital roll-out. In addition, the Government has had contradictory interests such as promoting competi ... more

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Sociologies of Voice and Language: Radio Broadcasting and the Ethnic Imperative

Brilliant Mhlanga

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 2 (2012), pp. 209-226

"This article will argue that the conversational approach used by Munghana Lonene FM (ML FM) of mixing music and talk in Tsonga encourages the creation of a sociological natal affiliation; a form of 'we' feeling that translates into notions of ownership and belonging and empowerment. By re-establish ... more

Global Information Society Watch 2012. The Internet and Corruption: Transparency and Accountability Online

Karen Banks (ed.)

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2012), 273 pp.

"GISWatch 2012 explores how the internet is being used to ensure transparency and accountability, the challenges that civil society activists face in fighting corruption, and when the internet fails as an enabler of a transparent and fair society. The eight thematic reports and 48 country reports pu ... more

Learning with Community Media: Stories from the Commonwealth and Latin America
Inspiring Practice

Ian Pringle, Ekta Mittal, Mónica Valdés (eds.)

Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning (COL) (2012), viii, 148 pp.

"This publication provides readers with fresh insights into the practice of participatory educational communication. The first section explores the educational potential of community media, reaching from participatory radio campaigns in Sub-Saharan Africa to school radios in Brazil. The second secti ... more

So This is Democracy? State of Media Freedom in Southern Africa 2011

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2012), 214 pp.

Universal Principles of Media Ethics: South African and German Perspectives

Lea-Sophie Borgmann

Global Media Journal - German Edition, volume 2, issue 2 (2012), 19 pp.

"This article attempts to address this field of research in comparing South African and German approaches to the topic of media ethics. Firstly, it outlines theories of universal and specific cultural ethical principles in journalism. Secondly, it shows how the conception of universal ethical princi ... more